Basketball Defense: Keeping Out of the Red Zone
Defense is often an overlooked skill in higher levels of basketball with the focus on scoring and “me.” As an old grumpy coach, I feel this is a mistake. Solid defensive play...
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Improve Your Fielding To Deny Base Runners
Being able to field ground balls is an essential defensive skill for baseball players. Doing this well can result in outs, doing this badly means extra-base hits. This post is going to...
Control The Red Zone To Control The Game
In basketball, ideally a defensive series ends with either a turnover or a rebound. One way to accomplish that is to control the court around the basket all the way up to...
Pass Denial is Key to Basketball Defense
In an article that I wrote for STACK (http://www.stack.com/2014/09/01/better-basketball-defense/) I touched on the importance of pass denial for good basketball defense. Ideally each defensive series in basketball ends with a turnover or...