Man Defense Basketball

Last week, I sent out a request for my newsletter subscribers to send in their best drills for man defense basketball.  Check out the basketball drills below.

From Daniel…
Here is a fun way of ensuring players play hard man-to-man.
We select a full length court that is surrounded on the side by other backboards usually used for free throw training. Thus we have 1 full sized court with say 2 or 3 baskets on the sidelines.

The drill is this : we play hard man-to-man .
The offense can score on any of the available baskets, ie. the 2 on the full sized court or any of the sideline baskets. This way you have to guard your man tight as you never know if he is going to swerve off and score on any of the sideline baskets.
We found that the defense learned NOT TO RELAX at anytime and made sure that the offensive player was always tightly covered.

From Julius…
3 on 3 full court is a great tool for early season or tryouts.  It helps you know who can really play defense and who is understands the game. Don’t leave them out there but about 7 minutes a group or it gets pretty ugly.