{"id":61,"date":"2009-01-13T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/are-you-spending-enough-time-on-1-on-1-defense\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T21:11:18","slug":"are-you-spending-enough-time-on-1-on-1-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/are-you-spending-enough-time-on-1-on-1-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Spending Enough Time on 1-on-1 Defense?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear so many coaches say, \u201cMy defensive help is great, but I can not seem to get my on-ball defenders to stay in front of their man.\u201d I\u2019m not going to lie. I\u2019ve said this, too.<\/p>\n

Think\u00a0about it.\u00a0 If your on-ball defense is below average that means your constantly playing the game 4 on 5. It doesn\u2019t matter how good your help defense is, it\u2019s going to eventually break down, because you can not play the game 4 on 5 and plan to be successful.<\/p>\n

So why does this happen? It\u2019s not like you don\u2019t teach your players how to guard the ball.<\/p>\n

1. It all goes back to what you emphasize<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Personally, I found myself drilling 1 on 1 defense, but never really emphasizing it during scrimmages and other drills. I was always concerned with the help defense<\/a>. If the defender got beat off the dribble, my first reaction was \u201cWhere is the help?\u201d In reality, I should\u2019ve been holding the on-ball defender more accountable.<\/p>\n

I also found that my 1 on 1 drills weren\u2019t competitive enough. I would do some full court 1 on 1 stuff, but I never really applied drills with real game-like situations that would occur in the half court defense. I didn\u2019t use any drills that would make the defender really stop the ball in a half court setting.<\/p>\n

2. Players have a sloppy defensive stance and\/or defensive slide<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot of coaches forget to spend time teaching and correcting a player\u2019s defensive stance and\/or slide. If you have kids off-balance and\/or they don’t know how to move properly, your team defense will suffer as well.<\/p>\n

The defensive stance<\/a> is the starting point. Once the defensive stance looks good, you can focus on\u00a0your players\u00a0slide defensively. Make sure to spend some time every week breaking down the stance and the defensive slide until your players can recite everything back to you about the defensive stance and slide.<\/p>\n

Besides,\u00a0using your typical\u00a01 on 1 defense half court and full court drills, you can use some of these competitive 1 on 1 drills.<\/p>\n

One on One Moves Drill<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 1 on 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Wing 1 on 1<\/a><\/p>\n

These drills were written with the emphasis on improving offense, but with a tweak here or there, you can make it defensive oriented. For example, allow the offensive player to take a few extra dribbles.<\/p>\n

If you would like to learn how to build your defense from the ground up, check out our Man to Man Defense System<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter if you have short and slow or tall and quick players. We break things down and will show you what type of defense is best for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hear so many coaches say, \u201cMy defensive help is great, but I can not seem to get my on-ball defenders to stay in front of their man.\u201d I\u2019m not going to lie. I\u2019ve said this, too. Think\u00a0about it.\u00a0 If your on-ball defense is below average that means your constantly playing the game 4 on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[73,32,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}