The key to playing hard-nosed, in your face man to man defense is team work. A man to man defense will only be as good as the rotations the team makes in order to cover the ball. Whether you are double teaming the opposition’s best player or you are helping a teammate who has been beat, the strength of your defense will depend on the chain reaction of events that will take place behind the double team or the help that occurs at the front end of the play. Specifically there are some general rules that should always be followed when double teams or help side defense takes place. One man should commit to helping on the ball or on a double team. Any more than that and you leave way too many options open for the offense. On a drive to the paint the defense needs to collapse into the paint and protect the basket. Again we want to make sure that only one additional person helps on the ball but the rest of the team needs to collapse into the paint but b...
