Defensive Philosophy

 

1. Do you mainly prefer a containment or pressure type of defensive system? Why?

 

2. Do you prefer to institute your defensive system by using man, zone, or a combination of both?  Why?

 

3. How variable do you intend to be with your defenses?  Why?

 

4. If you intend to be variable, what factors will determine the particular defense you play?

 

5. If you intend to major in one type of defense, what factors would force you to vary from this?

 

6. Do you intend to leverage your defense?  Force baseline, force middle, force weak hand, force left/right, square?

 

7. Do you believe there needs to be a correlation between your degree of pressure on defense and your offensive philosophy?  Why?

 

8. How far do you prefer to extend your defense under normal game situations?  Why?

 

9. Develop a plan sheet for each level of your program that details all the defenses you want utilized at that level and the drills that correspond to training them.

 

10. Develop a plan for defending special situations including BLOBs, SLOBs, Tip, Free Throws, End of Quarter, and End of Game.

 

11.  What is your plan for pick & roll coverage? How many coverages will you have?  Why?  How do you plan to drill it?

 

12.  What is your plan for defending various screening actions?  How do you plan to drill it?   

 

13. What is your plan for defending a dominant perimeter player?  Do you have a   plan for forcing him/her give up the ball?

 

14.  What is your plan for defending a dominant post player?

 

15.  What is your plan for defending spread offenses or 4 low?

 

16.  What is your plan for defending delay offenses?

 

17.  How will you denote your defenses?  Numbering system, colors, names, etc?