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Don Kelbick's Match Up Zone Defense - Video and eBook
In this video set, you get a comprehensive guide for implementing Don Kelbick's Match Up Zone Defense. Coach Don Kelbick provides a thorough, step-by-step process to build the fundamentals and philosophy of this defense into your team.
Don Kelbick is a long time contributor to BreakthroughBasketball.com developing dozens of articles, DVDs, and eBooks for the site. He has over 35 years of basketball coaching experience at the high school, division I college, and professional levels. He has also provided individual training for more than 14 different NBA players, 50 European and professional players, and hundreds of college basketball players.
What You'll Get in this Video & eBook Package
The video includes:
Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Goals and Principles of Defense
- Why It's Effective
- Who Should Consider this Defense
Chapter 2 - Drills to Build the Match-Up
In this chapter, Coach Kelbick shows you exactly how he builds his match-up defense. You'll see him build the defense with high school players that have never played this defense before. He starts with man to man principles and builds the defense step by step. You see on film how quickly he builds the defense with this group of players. This chapter includes:
- Introduction to Man to Man Development
- On the Ball Defensive Drill Series
- Zig Zig without a Ball Drill
- Defensive Reaction Drill
- Off the Ball Defensive Drill Series
- Shell Drill without a Ball
Coach Kelbick demonstrates a very unique way to teach man to man defense without a ball or any offense. This saves time because you don't have to worry about the offense passing at the wrong time, dribbling out of bounds, deflections, and so on. This method can be used in pre-season as a conditioning program, or in-season as your method to build the defense.
Chapter 3 - Teaching the Half Court Match-Up
Once man to man principles are taught, Coach Kelbick begins to teach the rules and responsibilities of the match up. The chapter includes...
- Match Up Zone Responsibilities
- Playing the Dribble
- Playing the Pass
- Playing Cutters
Chapter 4 - Team Defense Drills
In this chapter, you see how Don brings everything together. You'll see his method of teaching, correcting, and building the defense.
- 4 on 3 drill
- 4 on 4 drill
- 5 on 4 drill
- 5 on 5 drill
Chapter 5 - Defending Common Sets and Situations
In this chapter, Coach Kelbick shows you how to defend the following situations with the match up...
- 1-2-2 offensive set
- 2-3 offensive set
- 1-3-1 offensive set
- 2-1-2 offensive set
- 1-4 high offensive set
- 1-4 low offensive set
Chapter 6 - Trapping and Extending the Match Up Zone
In this chapter, Coach Kelbick walks you through the trapping, half court, and 3/4 court pressing options out of the match-up zone.
All of the responsibilities and rules of the match-up stay the same when you extend the defense. This makes it easy to teach and implement. There is NO live footage of the press in action. However, Don walks the players through the rules, responsibilities, and teaching points of the traps and full court press.
Chapter 7 - Making Adjustments
In this Chapter, Don shows how you to make adjustments to the match up and how to handle common challenges you'll face. Some of the adjustments include...
- Shutting Down Shooters
- Chasing Great Scorers
- Handling Screens When Chasing
- Chasing Two Great Scorers
- Stopping Dominant Post Players
- Defending Inbounds Plays
- Defending Specific Cuts
Chapter 8 - Questions and Answers
In this chapter, Don answers several common questions about the match up and pulls everything together.
Approx running time is 188 minutes.
37 Page Supplemental eBook
For your convenience, we have documented the rules, responsibilities, philosophy and drills included in the Match Up Zone video. We also documented a step-by-step process for you to implement the defense.
How is Don Kelbick's Match Up Zone Defense Unique?
A match up zone is based on rules, which can differ from coach to coach. Some match up zones look more like a typical zone, where others look closer to a man to man defense.
Don Kelbick's match-up zone is governed by a set of rules and leaves interpretation of those rules to the players. Many of the rules in a match-up zone mirror man-to-man principals. Weak side help, denying cutters to the ball, cutting off the baseline, no dribble penetration, all principles of my man-to-man defense, are cornerstones of this match-up-zone.
Coach Kelbick's defensive rules simplify the teaching process and lessen the time you need to spend getting players to memorize situations. This defense is easier to learn than the other match-up zones we have seen. Some match-up zones require hours of repetition and break-down drills to get players to memorize each scenario and know what to do. This match-up has less structure and is based on rules and teaching players universal defensive fundamentals.
The core of the defense is based on taking away lay ups. That is a primary emphasis of the defense, even when extending to a full court press.
The defense is very flexible and can be modified to fit your needs and personnel. You can press out of the defense, pack things in, chase shooters, or modify positions for certain players.
The other big advantage to this video is that Don covers man to man principles in detail so you have everything you need to implement the defense. He shows a unique way to teach man defense without using a ball and how you can teach man to man defense during your pre-season conditioning. So when you step on the floor for the first day of practice, players already know the defense! Since there is no ball and it's "conditioning", coaches in some states can get this done before season even starts.
Why is This Defense So Effective?
This match up zone is very difficult for your opponents to prepare for because it's almost impossible for them to simulate the defense in practice.
Many times your opponents will run a zone offense because they think they are facing zone. And the defense starts acting like man. Then they start running their man offense because they think it's a man. And your defense starts looking more like zone bumping all screens and keeping the bigs down low.
This match-up defense is difficult to identify, prepare for, and play against. It morphs to what ever it sees offensively, diminishes the effectiveness of screens, takes away lay ups, puts pressure on the ball, takes away gaps, and forces the offense to do things they are not comfortable with. This defense is very tough to prepare for and you won't play against a defense like this often, if ever.
Who Should Consider this Match Up Zone?
This is not a "change up" defense. This is something you run as your primary defense. The more you run it, the better it gets. Youth teams should be teaching man to man defense. This match up zone is for advanced teams, not for youth teams.
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