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Defensive positioning game

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9:20 pm
May 9, 2011


AT

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Coaches,

I have used the mirror defensive drill that has been highlighted in this form ( I think I saw it here).  I found it very effective because if kids were out of position or confused about what to do I always refered back to the mirror game and it seemed to chunk all the information about staying infront of the player.  To extend this game I thought it would be benefical to try and create an extension of the mirror game were the offensive player moves or trys to get by the defense.  The concept for the defender is the same – stay in front of the offence but the offence is trying to move down the floor or lane.  I am trying to make it a game but how does the defender stop the o if they can run by without using their hands or bumping them.  The  O has a huge advantage but you could make the lane or court very skinny to keep them from running to the outside and it forces the d to move their feet.  How would you keep score, do they have to touch a pylon at the far end of the court, does the o have a set amount of time.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

7:05 am
May 10, 2011


coachlittlejohn

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Great question, its funny you asked, because I've thought of this a lot but have yet to try it out.


To me you need a couple of cones that can limit where the defense can go laterally, I would say these need to be fairly narrow, maybe the width of the free throw line..  Ideally you would want the defense to stay on the lateral plane, but thats not realistic so you also need to give him some room to move backwards so he can take an angle.  So really the defensive would have a rectangular “zone”  (maybe 12ft wide and 5 ft deep) that he's allowed to move in.  


Now, how to play?  I think there are a couple of different ways.  In my mind this will be a fairly rough game, and I've thought about playing on the wrestling mats.  One “rough” way would be to have the offensive player try to run through the zone.  The defensive player's objective would be to try and touch the offensive player with his torso (or from the knees up to the chest)somehow.  Guys will be getting run over hopefully, so you may not want to do this a lot.  This would all be without a ball


Another way would be to have the offensive player run through the zone withought getting tagged. You'probably have to make the zone bigger, and it may not accomplish what you want as well, but you could use a ball easier with this one I think.


Just a couple of ideas.

9:06 pm
May 17, 2011


180shooter

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Not a perfect answer, but this could be an option:

http://cwheel.blogspot.com/201…..sball.html

3:19 pm
May 23, 2011


180shooter

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No explanations, but this could be similar to what you're looking to do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ture=share

I believe the chaser has to stay behind the other player until a certain point (half court) and then he tries to tag him before he gets to the baseline. But, I'm just speculating based on games that I have heard of.

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