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1. To throw or bounce the ball to a teammate. 2. The act of passing to a teammate. pass and chase. 1. To pass the ball to another teammate and immediately follow the pass to either pick and roll, slip by, accept a handoff back, or other basketball moves.
Dec 7, 2021 · The dribble drive offense, or dribble drive motion offense (DDM), is an aggressive offensive basketball play that requires strategic spacing and quick ball movement. This half court zone offense relies on the speed and decision-making abilities of a point guard or ball handler. The guard's responsibility is to attack the interior of a zone ...
Jan 9, 2024 · In the realm of attacking basketball, the foundation of a successful offensive strategy lies in mastering its core principles. It’s akin to building a house; without a strong base, even the most intricate designs can crumble. At the heart of offensive play is a trio of indispensable skills: agility, speed, and decision-making.
- General Basketball Defense Tips
- Understand Your Team’S Defensive System
- Understand Your Opponent
- Understand The Opposition’S Offense
- On-Ball Basketball Defense Tips
- Off-Ball Basketball Defense Tips
- Conclusion
1. Focus on Forcing Tough Shots
The most important thing for a player to remember about defense is that the goal is to force the opposition to attempt a difficult shot. Whether the shot they attempt is made or missed is irrelevant. There will be times when you play fantastic basketball defense for an entire possession and your opponent hits a tough fadeaway jump shot. There will be other times when you play terrible defense for an entire possession and your opponent misses a shot or turns the basketball over. For those reas...
2. Commit to Becoming a Great Defender
You’ll never become a great defender without consciously deciding that becoming a great defender is important to you. It takes a tremendous amount of toughness and heart to commit to the defensive end of the floor. Most players would prefer to take the easiest matchup possible so that they don’t have to work hard on the defensive end of the floor. The fans want to see the ankle-breaking crossovers and the thunderous dunks. It’s only the hardcore basketball fans who appreciate and understand h...
3. Always Defend the Opposition’s Best Player
By far the best way to become a great basketball defender is to play against highly skilled offensive players. This goes for practice, pick-up games, regular games, 1-on-1 games, everything. Constantly seek out the best offensive players and challenge yourself to play great defense against them. If you keep competing against players who are bigger, stronger, and more skilled than you are, I promise that you’ll walk away from the game a better defender every single time.
22. What Defense is Your Team Running?
An obvious but important question. A lot of times a youth basketball coach will install a defense by explaining how it works, but never directly telling the players what it is. Make sure you find out what the coach is running so that you can go home and learn more about the defense you’re going to be playing. Study it until you understand it completely. You never want to get lost when you’re playing defense. Once you’ve gained deep knowledge of what to do on the defensive end of the floor, th...
23. How Does Your Team Defend the Pick and Roll?
The pick and roll is arguably the most effective action in basketball. In order to be a great defender, you must know how your team’s defense is designed to defend it. Depending on the age and skill level of your opponents, some coaches will choose to hedge the screen, use drop coverage, or even switch the screen. Some teams will have different defensive actions depending on where the basketball is on the court or even depending on which offensive players are involved in the screen. Failure t...
24. What Are the Defensive Rotations?
Being able to rotate correctly and immediately on defense is by far the hardest part of defense for most players. Players get stuck in the ‘this is my man and I have to stop them from scoring’mentality and forget that basketball isn’t played individually. It’s played as a team. There are going to be breakdowns in the defense from time to time and players must be ready and willing to rotate off their player and help out their teammates. Therefore, having complete understanding of the defensive...
26. Are They a Great Outside Shooter?
The number one factor that determines how you should play against your opponent on defense is whether they can shoot the basketball from the outside at a high percentage. If you’re guarding a poor shooter, then you can assist your teammates with more help off the basketball and you know that when playing on-ball defense you can take an extra step back to defend the drive without fear that they’ll make the shot. If you’re guarding a great shooter, you won’t be able to help as much and you must...
27. Where/How Do They Score Most of Their Points?
Whether they’re a great outside shooter or not, most players will have certain areas of the floor or certain ways that they score the majority of their points. To be a great basketball defender, you must work out where and how your opponent does most of their scoring. Do they get most of their points running off screens and getting midrange shots? Do they score most of their points driving to the rim and finishing with their right hand? Do they have a deadly midrange pull-up game? Are they a...
28. Do They Prefer Dribbling With Their Right or Left Hand?
Figuring out whether to influence your opponent’s dribbling to the right or left is one of the most important and easiest things you can do to improve your defense. How you’ll implement this knowledge during the game might vary due to team defensive rules, but understanding their preference is crucial. More often than not, the player you’re competing against will prefer to drive to their right hand. To force them to their opposite hand, position yourself so that you’re slightly overplaying th...
32. What Offense Are They Running?
One of the first questions that smart defenders will ask themselves when determining how to defend their opponent is “What offense does the opposition run?” Once you figure this out, the next step is to determine the best way to defend against it. Here are a few of the question you should think about… How do they initiate the offense? What’s the regular passing sequence of their offense? Where do they take most of their shots from? For example: If an opponent’s offense always starts with a pa...
33. What Are Their Most Common Set Plays
Often you’ll come across teams that don’t have an offense at all and will rely solely on set plays to score the basketball. Since most youth and high school teams only have 2 – 3 set plays that they run a majority of the time, it can be relatively simple to figure out the name of the set play and what their actions are. Just like the previous tip, your goal is to figure out what the opposition are trying to do and then take those options away from them. The best time to do this is before the...
34. Put Constant Pressure on the Basketball
While the main goal is containment, we don’t want players to do this by standing 2 meters off their opponent and giving them wide open shots. Players must learn how to contain their player while also putting constant pressure on them when they have the basketball. The purpose of putting pressure on the basketball is to make the offensive player uncomfortable which will often lead to deflections and turnovers. When a player is uncomfortable from on-ball pressure, they don’t want to dribble the...
35. Stay Lower Than Your Opponent at All Times
When you’re playing on-ball defense, you should always be lower than your opponent. If you’re roughly the same height, your eye level should be at approximately their shoulder level. Being lower gives you better balance and allows you to react quickly once the offensive player makes their move. As always, the quicker you can react, the better.
36. Don’t Lunge for the Basketball
This tip goes back to the importance of balance that I talked about in the first section of this article on basketball defense. When you lunge for the basketball, you’re often putting yourself off-balance and out of correct defensive position. If the basketball comes within your reach, by all means, attempt to tip it and secure the steal, but never lunge out of position unless you’re over 75% sure you’re going to steal the basketball. Always remember that containing your opponent is your numb...
43. One-Pass Away – Deny or Help?
One of the most important principles of your team’s defensive system you must understand is whether to deny when one-pass away or whether to be in help position. This is the main difference between the two most popular defensive systems: The man-to-man defense (deny) and the Pack Line defense (help). If you’re denying the pass, you should always have one arm and one foot in the passing lane, your chest should be facing your opponent, and you should see the basketball by looking over your ball...
44. Learn How to Close Out Correctly
Close outs are one of the most difficult skills to master on defense. In fact, there any many offenses and set plays designed specifically to create defensive closeouts as that’s often where a lot of defenses break down. There’s no avoiding them. If your team is in help position (which they should be), then there will be close outs no matter what. So how do you perform them effectively? The key to closing out is to sprint approximately two-thirds of the way to the defender and then use short,...
45. Never Help Off Ball-Side Corner
The corner three-point shot is arguably the most efficient shot in the game of basketball. You should never leave this shot open. A player will most commonly make this mistake when an opponent drives to the rim from the wing and they’re defending a player in the corner one-pass away. Instead of staying on their opponent, this corner defender will drop down to help stop the drive to the rim leaving their player open for the simple pass and wide open jump shot. Every player must understand that...
Becoming a great basketball defender is one of the most important areas a player can focus on. Since few players put a focus on defense, doing so is one of the best opportunities a player has of separating themselves from the crowd and advancing from a mediocre player to a great player. If you implement the above tips into your game, very quickly y...
250+ Basketball Terms You Must Know. -- 1, 2, 3 --. 1-2-1-1 Press - A true full-court press with many possible variations. The goal of the press is to trap the basketball immediately after it has been inbounded into play. This allows the defense a lot of time to recover if the offensive team is able to break the press.
The Air Ball. An airball is essentially a blank and rather embarrasing for basketball players. When a player hits neither the hoop nor the back board, the ball misses everything and lands out of bounds resulting in a turn of possession. This is referred to as an airball, regardless whether thrown from the free throw line or three point line.
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Here are three moves that you can use when attacking the basket. Move #1 - Catch and Rip Opposite. You catch the ball and face the basket looking to shoot. Then you immediately rip the ball across your body and dribble to the basket for a lay up. You can utilize a hop or forward pivot when catching the ball.
