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In watching a lot basketball at the high school, collegiate and NBA levels, I’m always reminded that the best coached teams and players at all three levels are fundamentally grounded in the same basic way: Each player who catches and “faces up”-“fights” to square to the basket-no matter how great the pressure on the ball….
Over the years there have been lots of discussion about the use and implementation of the Pack Line Defense. Coaches have posted videos, documents and diagrams all designed to help coaches understand the nuances of this man to man defense. Below we aggregated all the pack line defense information into one spot so coaches can…
Short video of former Xavier and current Louisville Coach Chris Mack talking philosophy and principles of his pack line pressure defense.
Man to Man Set that uses a weave action to setup a ball screen or skip pass to a wing player coming off a flare screen. All of the movement sets up the a ball handler with an option to score off the ball screen or skip the ball back behind the ball screen for…
I recently had the opportunity to involve myself once again in what used to be termed “AAU” basketball and what would now be more appropriately called “travel” basketball, because for various reasons we don’t need to get into-many tournaments are no longer run under AAU auspices. While I am helping out with a former player’s…
Man baseline out of bounds play with a staggered back screen for a cutter and an elevator screen for a shooter following the initial cut. There are two pretty good options to get an open look with the added possibilities of one of the two screeners diving to the bucket if their defender shows on a screen….