Fundamentally Essential!
Give this handout to your team to improve their defensive skills! The aim is to get your players thinking defensively, offering key advice and techniques to adopt, ready to use when they are required to defend for their next games.
This guide has 14 topics with the sole focus to help players improve their defensive mindset.
Written by a national coach, your players will be asked various questions - What to do when going for an offensive/defensive rebound? Where should I be positioned when marking? What should I do if I'm marking my teammate's player?
Start developing your players' defensive skills today with this handout!
Rebounding is the least glamorous thing in basketball and one of the most decisive. It is also almost entirely a habit, which means it is entirely coachable.
Good spacing is only the start. The best modern offences teach players to attack the defence's rotations and play in a permanent 4-on-3 - here is how to coach that read.
The ball screen produces almost half of all professional offensive possessions, yet most teams still teach it as a memorised play. The modern approach trains the read - giving players a framework to decide based on what the defence does, not what the coach called.