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Dick Bennett on Defense
- Don’t give up easy shots if you want to win big.
- Two areas that are vital.
- If a team gets up and down and doesn’t have to work – poor transition defense
- Refuse to get beat by a great post player
- Always take a guy out if he loafs in a game.
- Transition defense – be in two places at once if you want to be successful.
- Transition defense
- Recognition
- Anticipation
- Reaction
- Communication
- Rotation
- Stance
- Vision
- The way you defend the post dictates how you play everything else – most people don’t have a philosophy with post defense.
- ¾ to behind on the pass
- No feed from the top
- Don’t go for steals
- No lobs
- Behind
- Front
- Good players have pass and shot fakes in their games
- Closeouts – Great teams know how to close out
- Short choppy steps
- High heads and then settle into your stance
- No rhythm shots are allowed
- Level off the dribble – get him going sideways
- Take away the straight drive
- Bother the shooter
- Off Ball Defense
- Must be able to get the ball and pressure it.
- Your positioning is your help!
- Closed stance line of ball is vital.
- When you are doing defensive drills you want the defense to score and be aggressive. Make the defense gets stops – build toughness and discipline.
- Rebounding
- Bigs – Get to man, make and maintain contact
- Guards – Go to man, make contact, and then go find the ball.
- Great coaches do the same thing the 1st day of practice and the last day of practice every year.
- Screens – Chase the guy down
- If you touch the guy at all times you will not get screened.
- If you are guarding the screen you will help any and all guys you can but must stay attached – help in the direction the cutter is going!
- The more you allow switching the more it will hurt your opponents early in the season but it will handicap your team late in the season.
- You can only switch if you have a very mature team
- Things that make you lose!
- Can’t reach – if you reach you will lose.
- Silence
- Low hands
- Over helping by the bigs
- Help and stand – they don’t get back to their responsibilities
- Lateness to trap or choke
- Lack of floor burns
- Help comes from the guards on defense, not from the bigs.
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