Stop Dribble Penetration – Accelerate This With The Challenging Foster Drill (Offense Improves Too!)
If your individual defenders can not stop the ball handler, you will be playing at a disadvantage constantly. No matter how good your help defense is, it would be impossible to develop a high-level defense without the ability to stop the ball handler one on one. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you…
I have done this drill, how can I get hesitant players to penetrate in this drill? I don’t have as much problem with my defense player closing out as I do the offense player stopping once he is confronted by the defense player.
Gotta love the fast paced drills where basketball players only have a split second to react. If the defender can’t stop the ball. Getting the offensive player to at least change directions once is a good place to start. Maybe worth mentioning for the kids who are not so good at defense.