Κυριακή 20 Οκτωβρίου 2013

HUSTLE DRILLS

Today I will present you one category of drills that college and high schools coaches are using very often, especially on the opening days. These drills are very well known drills as "hustle drills". In Europe we are not so familiar with these drills, I mean not as much as in the States, but the true is that through these drills we can teach a lot to our players, like how to fall down without injuries, or most important to create them a mentality of self sacrificing for the team,and of course they can be really fan. At the following video, coach of VCU himself is demonstrating the drill.

One more hustle drill similar with the previous one.

And one more here, although this one shows more how to take the charge

Τρίτη 29 Ιανουαρίου 2013

2-1-2 MATCH UP ZONE DEFENSE


In women's euroleague, a very good Italian club (FAMILA SCHIO), runs very well an interesting match up zone defense. The (very good) coach of the team Maurizio Lasi achieved to hide the disadvantages of his bad defensivly players thru this zone, to confuse a lot his opponent and make them play very slow and to increase the possibilities of winning. Finally the moderate (until that time) team manage to entry to the final 8 of euroleague.
The rules that has that defense is mostly to follow every danger cut, to adjust and take positions very fast to 2-1-2 zone even if the point guard need to fill the middle of the paint or the center to follow on the top of the key. Of course in order to play that zone defense you need to have big guards, athletic bigs and excellant communication.
Maybe at the following video you'll have the feeling that defense is in man to man, but trust me they stay in zone.