Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

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Ep 2040 Do you have three defenses or one really good one?

Ep 2040 Do you have three defenses or one really good one?12 oct.14 min

Do you have three defenses or one really good one?

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Why most preseason defensive installs

try to cover everything and end up covering nothing.

SHOW NOTES

Somewhere in your league there

is a team with almost no defensive scheme at all that is going to beat somebody

good this winter, because they guard the ball. Meanwhile most of us are

carrying three or four defenses and are not actually good at any of them. Steve

walks through the order of operations for installing defense in preseason,

starting with the only question that matters before any scheme decision: can we

guard the ball?