These notes are taken from Joel Sullivan who is the head girls basketball coach at Ames High School in Ames, Iowa from the Central Iowa Coaches Clinic in 2007.
Priorities on DEFENSE
-Transition—send 3 ½ to boards with 1 ½ back. Point guard is back 90% of the time unless they drive and shoot.
-Pressure the ball—Don’t let the offense see the floor.
-Get inside foot up. Getting beat to the elbow from the wing means they let them “go over the top.”
-Disrupt scoring opportunites for opponents.
-“Hands Off” verbalized in practice constantly.
-Rebounding—a daily emphasis. Drill it everyday, including game day. 10 straight years of out-rebounding their opponents. Stat—team that gets 57% of the rebounds wins 90% of the games. --Key is to tie up their legs and keep your moving. Guards must rebound. 5 rebound on defense.
Defensive Drills--thoughts
-Close outs—“short and low, get your hips down.”
-Dig the ball upwards not downwards. Got this from Bill Harris.
-7 in 1 drill—best one on one drill he’s seen. Teaches one on one in the half court.
-“Hey” drill—another Bill Harris drill. Hey=”I’ve got your help”.
-2 on 2 ball/help/deny
-3 on 3 ball/help/deny—positioning. Do not switch a screen away.
-3 on 3 with a twist---after ball goes out of bounds, new ball comes in bounds and they must pick up someone different than they had originally.
-SDSA—Defend in a box, like Bruce Wilson’s drill from last week. Constant down screen down drill. Can run it as a screen away drill also. Mix up little and big screeners. **The SWAG technique is used on cross screens—Swag is help by the screener’s defender until teammate gets in position after being screened.
-Shell Drill—Loves the shell drill concept. Does a lot of teaching out of Shell concept. Term—3 passes away is “Great Big Help.”
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