Posted by Anji:

Some of you dudes sound foolish.............. how the hell do you work on defense other playing Jackasses!!!!!! It's not like taking free throws, there is no drill for defense and shot blocking. You play for these things.

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by Anji:

Some of you dudes sound foolish.............. how the hell do you work on defense other playing Jackasses!!!!!! It's not like taking free throws, there is no drill for defense and shot blocking. You play for these things.

tsk tsk.. how about..

To help develop your quickness, work on footspeed drills such as jumping rope, doing defensive slides, running sprints, running stadium stairs, and doing cone drills. By increasing your quickness, you'll be a better defender.

these are just a few. there are many drills you can do.

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by Anji:

Some of you dudes sound foolish.............. how the hell do you work on defense other playing Jackasses!!!!!! It's not like taking free throws, there is no drill for defense and shot blocking. You play for these things.

tsk tsk.. how about..

To help develop your quickness, work on footspeed drills such as jumping rope, doing defensive slides, running sprints, running stadium stairs, and doing cone drills. By increasing your quickness, you'll be a better defender.

these are just a few. there are many drills you can do.

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by Anji:

Some of you dudes sound foolish.............. how the hell do you work on defense other playing Jackasses!!!!!! It's not like taking free throws, there is no drill for defense and shot blocking. You play for these things.

tsk tsk.. how about..

To help develop your quickness, work on footspeed drills such as jumping rope, doing defensive slides, running sprints, running stadium stairs, and doing cone drills. By increasing your quickness, you'll be a better defender.

these are just a few. there are many drills you can do.

Then there are the mental aspects of D. Forcing your man to where you want him to go. Making him use his weak hand or forcing him towards help. Reading and anticipating a players movements. Proper spacing when covering a quicker player. How to fight over picks. How to use proper leverage in the post. Recognizing which hand a shooter uses and then putting up the correct arm when trying to block a shot on either a right hander or left hander. Perhaps having a guard try to layup on you or shoot over you and practicing your timing for shotblocking.

I will pair my first team against my second team during scrimmages. For the full hour scrimmage one team is never allowed to go on offense. They play defense for the full day. They keep track of how many points the offensive team scores in an hour. Then the next day the other team tries to beat that. It creates this strong defensive mentality. Guys hate it when they come in and they know on that day they are just going to play defense, but as the practices goes on they get really intense. They will do anything to stop the other team from scoring. A few weeks of that and the defensive mentality of every player on the team changes. A couple seasons of that and guys are doing it on their own time in pickup games. A couple years of that and you have voracious defenders. When the offensive team scores on them, they get angry. When the offensive team scores consistently they want to kill the guy that keeps getting scored on. When the games start the mentality is something I love and other teams hate. I don't have the best teams in my league every year. But noone wants to play us.

I then invite other schools to come play us. I tell them that they can work on their offensive sets and my team will only play defense for the full 40 minutes. We'll grab the rebound run it up court and then hand it back to you. They used to think I was crazy. Now they won't do it because they realized how much it was helping us and not them. It's all about defense.

Now obviously the KNicks don't have the time to do things like this. But there are many ways to change the mentality of the players. We just have to try to make them commit to it. WE have been making too many excuses for it.

[Edited by - bippity10 on 24-08-2007 2:35 PM]

Posted by Anji:

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by Anji:

Some of you dudes sound foolish.............. how the hell do you work on defense other playing Jackasses!!!!!! It's not like taking free throws, there is no drill for defense and shot blocking. You play for these things.

tsk tsk.. how about..

To help develop your quickness, work on footspeed drills such as jumping rope, doing defensive slides, running sprints, running stadium stairs, and doing cone drills. By increasing your quickness, you'll be a better defender.

these are just a few. there are many drills you can do.

I am a defensive coach. My first 2 weeks of practice are spent without a basketball in your hands, working on defensive drills. So it's news to me to find out that there are no defensive drills.

Who you teaching?? Kids. After Jr high, I never had coach make me do those drills.


Curry isn't doing posture drills like a 5th grader. Guarding a trainer in the post ain't going to help urry with his shot blocking and help D. He has to play in game situations....

Posted by bigbeast:

Posted by Bippity10:

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by Anji:

Some of you dudes sound foolish.............. how the hell do you work on defense other playing Jackasses!!!!!! It's not like taking free throws, there is no drill for defense and shot blocking. You play for these things.

tsk tsk.. how about..

To help develop your quickness, work on footspeed drills such as jumping rope, doing defensive slides, running sprints, running stadium stairs, and doing cone drills. By increasing your quickness, you'll be a better defender.

these are just a few. there are many drills you can do.

Then there are the mental aspects of D. Forcing your man to where you want him to go. Making him use his weak hand or forcing him towards help. Reading and anticipating a players movements. Proper spacing when covering a quicker player. How to fight over picks. How to use proper leverage in the post. Recognizing which hand a shooter uses and then putting up the correct arm when trying to block a shot on either a right hander or left hander. Perhaps having a guard try to layup on you or shoot over you and practicing your timing for shotblocking.

I will pair my first team against my second team during scrimmages. For the full hour scrimmage one team is never allowed to go on offense. They play defense for the full day. They keep track of how many points the offensive team scores in an hour. Then the next day the other team tries to beat that. It creates this strong defensive mentality. Guys hate it when they come in and they know on that day they are just going to play defense, but as the practices goes on they get really intense. They will do anything to stop the other team from scoring. A few weeks of that and the defensive mentality of every player on the team changes. A couple seasons of that and guys are doing it on their own time in pickup games. A couple years of that and you have voracious defenders. When the offensive team scores on them, they get angry. When the offensive team scores consistently they want to kill the guy that keeps getting scored on. When the games start the mentality is something I love and other teams hate. I don't have the best teams in my league every year. But noone wants to play us.

I then invite other schools to come play us. I tell them that they can work on their offensive sets and my team will only play defense for the full 40 minutes. We'll grab the rebound run it up court and then hand it back to you. They used to think I was crazy. Now they won't do it because they realized how much it was helping us and not them. It's all about defense.

Now obviously the KNicks don't have the time to do things like this. But there are many ways to change the mentality of the players. We just have to try to make them commit to it. WE have been making too many excuses for it.

[Edited by - bippity10 on 24-08-2007 2:35 PM]

This is an excellent drill Bip. I've coached 1 year of summer ball in NY and will make my debut as assistant coach for a Middle school this year in Atl. I'm more of an offensive-sets guy but I definitely will use this defensive drill (if you dont mind) with my players this year.

I do similar drills offensively. During practice, when a team is on offense, I never count a basket if its a bad-shot or if they didn't run through the offensive set at least one time. The players hate-it but it teaches discipline on offense in terms of taking good shots.

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by Anji:

Some of you dudes sound foolish.............. how the hell do you work on defense other playing Jackasses!!!!!! It's not like taking free throws, there is no drill for defense and shot blocking. You play for these things.

tsk tsk.. how about..

To help develop your quickness, work on footspeed drills such as jumping rope, doing defensive slides, running sprints, running stadium stairs, and doing cone drills. By increasing your quickness, you'll be a better defender.

these are just a few. there are many drills you can do.

Posted by Anji:

Seriously doubt Currys coaches are trying to "break" him by making do drills without the ball. THese are NBA players and that is not a defensive drill............