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Defensive Basketball Strategies
Learn basketball defensive strategies and concepts to help in your basketball coaching. This section is geared to giving you tips, tactics, and strategies that go beyond the X's and O's and drills of teaching basketball defense.
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When to Press
If it isn't your style to press the entire game, when should you press? Should you press at all? Which type of press might work best? We answer a these questions and more so you can understand when to apply pressure and how it can help you win more basketball games. . . .
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The Combination Switch Defense
This defensive strategy employs the tactic of switching between man-to-man and zone defenses. It can be quite effective and create a bit of chaos against teams that like to play a patterned or deliberate offense. . . .
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10 Principles of Defensive Team Play
Coach Jack Ramsay was a proponent of playing pressure defense. He believed that applying pressure would force offensive teams into difficult situations. What follows is his set of 10 Principles of Defensive Team Play developed and adopted to best incorporate pressure defense into game strategy. . . .
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10 Individual Defensive Rules
This list of Individual Defensive Rules comes from an old handout by the late UTEP coach, Don Haskins. Coach Haskins lists his fundamental defensive rules for playing individual defense beginning with getting back on defense. . . .
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Continuity Offense Sets
