3 Underrated Defensive Tips That Offensive Players Hate 🔥

[justicebobert]

I needed you as a basketball coach when I was younger

[ShareefusMaximus]

As a 1970s coach, I am all in my feelings here!

[thedude]

i always want to try pulling the chair out but i never end up doing it

[briankrzywdik]

Nobody pulls the chair anymore. Glad you said it. 👏

[braiansobrino]

Facts. Took me 5 years as a teenage to learn this stuff on my own. Would’ve loved to have seen this at 10 years old.

[charlesborel]

I love when they try to bully me in the paint and I let them lean on me a couple times and just when they go to bump again I side step and make them fall. Can’t just move out the way got to catch them off guard and sell it just like a fake.

[i_sharky]

As an guard who can kind of hold my own on backdown from bigs I never usually pull the chair but one day I pulled the chair on my friend who outweighed me by 70+lbs…. It was the slowest fall I’ve ever seen. 10/10 recommend

[gregorylagrange]

Good tips. Add to the close out that you close out to the side that is the dominant hand of the shooter. And with your hand up that is the opposite of the shooters hand.
That way if you try to block you don't jump into the shooter, but jump and land to his side. And for a right handed shooter, your left hand being up it's better to get a piece for the block.
And if the shooter pump fakes, you can recover for the drive. And by being at his side, he'll hesitate trying to shoot as you come down because you're still next to him and facing him, instead of running into him for a foul.

[johnvishwas]

I don’t bother the shot pocket as a defender because I want the ball handler to get comfortable exposing the ball. If you’re guarding me, you won’t be able to bother my shot pocket because it’s not there until I’ve created space; every shot that I take is a quick transition from dribble to release, so until then I’m always moving and dribbling the ball.

[mrpowerfader]

Great stuff bro. Very practical tid bits will make the difference no doubt.

[MS-howq]

just need the weekly scouting report for my old bastards' rec league, then I'll know where everyone's pocket is

[TheBadiiye]

a great tip is having your feet wider than the offensive player if you get beat you have a great chance of recovering for a block

[ZerEdits]

That first tip, that’s the true test of your hoop shoes 😂😂 if they’re not good or the court is bad, you are flying outta the play

[jayanthony]

I can't even recall the last time I seen some tips for basketball on defense... Good stuff got my follow

[kevinfisher]

Keep it up man, you help a lot of people keep active.

Peace

[TommieGun]

Evolution of that 3 point line changed how you gotta play defense for sure 👌🏽

[ashtonmcnamara]

If you can get your arm inside somebodys shoulder/chest, you have leverage, especially if you are low

[ashleym]

The stutter step is to keep you on your toes ready to move, you over exaggerate when you close out from the distants you did it in. If you run off the shooter like you did, that boy almost took you off the jump, I imagine of he were an adult you wouldn't have had a chance

[dedricklane]

Exactly that’s how I could be 5’8 guarding 6’3 guys in high school. They have strength and height advantage the only thing left is IQ, body positioning and fundamentals.

[RallyOpposum]

Running them off the line is the same concept taught in the 1970s. If anything the set shots then had quicker releases than todays jump shots. However the release point is harder to reach in todays game. But that first one made no sense.