Basketball Man to Man Defense

This idea for basketball man to man defense was sent in by Megan.  Excellent basketball drill to add to your practices.  Let me know how it goes for you.

From Megan…
Trapping Drill (we call it Knights of Trapalot):

Five offensive players and five defensive players are needed.
Four players go in four corners of a square…spread out.
The fifth goes in the middle.
The five defensive players match up with the offensive players. Resembles the number five on dice.

Now comes the trapping. Whoever has the ball needs to be trapped. The trap comes from the defensive player and another from one of the sides or the middle. There always has to be a trap of two people. Once the pass is thrown, that person is then trapped. We teach them to move with the flight of the ball, and encourage the defense to get a steal. We usually tell the offensive player to wait, so that they get the most out of the drill and it doesn’t become a game of keep away.

Whenever a trap is made we make sure that both the offensive and defensive players are using the proper skills of trapping and getting out of a trap.