That Basketball Life

In our last post we spoke about how to play good on the ball defense.  Today we talk about something that could be lumped in with our prior discussion but we view as so important that it merits it's own post.  The topic today is pressuring the ball. Here at TBL we always like to think defense in terms of what makes us uncomfortable offensively on the basketball floor.  The one thing that always seems to cause our offense problems is good pressure defense.

So now that we have talked about the philosophy of defense along with how important communication and teamwork are to coaching successful team defense it is now time to start getting into the details of defense.  We start by covering how to successfully play on the ball defense. The key to being a successful on ball defender is to keep your man in front of you at all costs.  By teaching a few simple points that need to be practiced over and over again you can get your team to improve their on ball defense.