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Basketball Defensive Drills and Knowledge

“Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.” This is usually true because to win a championship, you have to win many games in succession and your offense may not always show up, but your defense will never let you down if you work hard. So why is it that you never see kids practicing their defensive drills in their driveway? Because they are either too flashy or do not know any. These individual defensive drills will make you the player your coach puts in to shut down the other teams stud.

Drills to build quickness

Lines-Jump back and forth, and side to side over lines with both feet and one foot at a time.

5 dots-Make five dots in an x shape. One in the middle and four around it. Do every combo and pattern imaginable jumping from dot to dot.

Bounding-This teaches you to bound on defense like all great defenders. In this go on one foot and jump for horizontal distances as far as you can and land on one foot, and then from that foot jump again as far as you can horizontally. And do it in random directions for short periods at a time. This is to train muscles, not exhaust them. So go very hard for a very short period of time.

Game Situations

Shuffle-Use the push slide step technique, not overlapping your feet. (The push slid step technique is push with one leg; slide the other one next to it, and the step.) Go back and forth across the lane staying in the defensive stance. While doing this, you must have one hand inches from the ground and one hand up. The one hand up is to be in the players face in game ready to block/distract shot while the low hand is the pesky hand  preventing the crossover and therefore forcing the playing you are guarding one direction and always making him uncomfortable.

Closing Out-Start on the baseline and put a cone at the three point line as an imaginary person. Run at it and then shuffle when you get close with your but down and hands up being ready for the shot and drive. Make sure you do this like it is a game or you will be sloppy in the game like you are right now while practicing.

Ball Drill-Shuffle along the wall while passing it off the wall at the same time back to yourself. Remember in all these drills the most important thing is to stay in your defensive stance at all times and that it is about technique, not how fast you go.

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14 Responses to “Basketball Defensive Drills and Knowledge”

  1. SergeyNikolaev on July 31st, 2009 8:21 am

    I don’t get it, what do you mean by the 3rd paragraph?

  2. MishaPowerauto on August 1st, 2009 12:43 pm

    Amazing news, thank you!
    greatbasketballdrills.com – cool!!!!

  3. electromozzo on August 2nd, 2009 8:42 am

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  4. Zashkaser on August 6th, 2009 5:55 am

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  5. LenaShopogolik on August 6th, 2009 3:53 pm

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  6. Sdanektir on August 7th, 2009 1:28 am

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  7. drills on August 7th, 2009 2:38 pm

    If you are talking about the dot drills, you just jump quickly from dot to dot. For example, let us number the dots. 1and2 up top. 3 in the middle. 4and5 down low. You would jump 1-2-3-4-5-1-2-3-4-5… or you could go the opposite 5-4-3-2-1-5-4-3-2-1… Create any combination and challenge yourself. It will increase your quickness allowing you to stay in front of your defender when guarding him 1-on-1

  8. Vivalkakira on August 8th, 2009 7:23 am

    Great post Jon! I have been following the #p2 effort since you started it, and although I have understood its purpose this post does a really great job solidifying the full rationale.

  9. VitalikGromovss on August 9th, 2009 12:09 am

    thanks for the catch. I’ll get in there and fix it….

  10. dimagromovfoto on August 16th, 2009 1:01 pm

    hahaha ! this is good s###.

  11. doctorbiml on September 25th, 2009 4:08 am

    I love it! That is way cool man! The steps weren’t that complicated too, which is great.

  12. blondinkaya on September 26th, 2009 10:09 am

    Are you from San Diego?

  13. Unelsapense on September 30th, 2009 8:05 am

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  14. drills on October 2nd, 2009 12:29 am

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