The role of help side defense often goes unnoticed. It’s easy to see the tenacious on-ball defender and the lockdown defender one pass away, but in many ways it is the help defense that separates a good defensive unit from a bad one. In this piece we’ll review help defense and offer three tricks of the trade …
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Defensive Teaching Progressions
Once a coach decides upon the “what” they soon shift to the “how.” For example, once a coach decides to teach man-to-man defense they shift to how they are going to install it. In what order do we present the concepts? What drills or games do we use? What are our teaching points for the …