Heat Diamond Press
Ages: Youth
Summary:
The press we employ is called "Diamond". We put our 5 on the ball, with our two guards on the baseline wing. We allow the ball to be inbounded, then look to trap and cut off passing lanes. Our 3 is deep to stop the fast break and intercept long passes.
Personnel:
Very aggressive players who know good man-to-man defense, as well as when and how to trap. 4 and 3 need good anticipation skills and court awareness, making sure defenders do not slip behind them for an easy basket.
Instructions
- After a made basket, or out of bounds situation, we may elect to go into a "Diamond" press.
- 5 is on the ball, protecting against the ball from going to the middle of the floor. Ideally, we want the first pass to go as much into the corner as possible.
- When ball is passed into the corner, 2 and 5 attempt a trap.
- The key is not to allow the ball handler to break down the sideline (2) must defend, or have 5 overrun the trap and have the ballhandler beat 5 to the middle.
- 1 is protecting against the pass to the middle. He looks to pick off a pass back to the inbounder but if that pass happens we can still reset. If a pass comes to the middle and one is behind the play, we would then have three defenders behind the ball and probably would be beat.
- 4 is watching for a pass to the middle and to the sidelines.
- 3 is protecting the deep pass and must be aware of all the offensive players, making sure he does not get beat deep.
- The final place to trap would be just over the mid court line. We should attempt to recover all the way to half court, looking for this last trap.
- No player should be behind the ball. They should SPRINT back to defend the basket if they are beat. We would rather not get a tournover, than get beat with a layup because we did not hustle back.
- After the half court trap is beat, we need to fall back into a 2-3.
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