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!
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.
The closeout is the most repeated defensive action in modern basketball. With fouls per game climbing in the 2025-26 season, coaches must teach defenders to contest the three without surrendering the drive or putting shooters on the line.
The 2-3 zone defence remains one of the most effective defensive systems in basketball when coached and executed properly. This guide covers the fundamentals of running a 2-3 zone, including player roles, rotations, and when to deploy it for maximum impact.
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