Defense

Offense wins games, defense wins championships. Playing defense is a skill like everything else. It requires skill, understanding of the game, and dedication.

There are 105 basketball drills in this category, and the newest ones are listed first.

Gut drill

Great defensive conditionong drill.

21/10 2004

3 on 2, 2 on 1

Works defense harder because their are less of them.

11/10 2004

Run, find, defend, steal

Getting back on defense and forcing a turnover for lay-up.

9/7 2004

War Drill

To develop boxing out techniques.

7/7 2004

4 on 4 shell drill

4 on 4

13/3 2004

Simithon

Many teams are bad with getting their hands up.

24/2 2004

Charge and recoil

Drive and take charge and on pass run out to the shooter at the free throw line.

19/1 2004

Zigzag or W drill

Easy little deffense drill that does not take very long at all. Plus it really helps!

23/12 2003

Physically Take Charge!

Learn how to take on a charge at full speed.

8/10 2003

Quickly

Drill to help defensive skills (one of my favorites).

28/7 2003

Amazing defensive press

Great drill to stop the ball, make a steal, force a turnover.

20/7 2003

Whistle drill

The player(s) line up and get in a defensive stance. The coach/friend blows the whistle. They then begin to defensive slide to the right. When the whistle is blown again they slide the other way. They continue this until the coach stops.

26/7 2002

Defensive drill

Force the other player to take a shot that he didn’t want.

18/7 2002

The passing lanes

For man to man and good to get easy steals and fastbreaks.

13/12 2001

Stutter step

  • The player stands like he is defending another player.
  • Then he starts moving is leg quickly like in the stutter step fake.
  • He does it for one minute.
  • The player can repeat this drible for 1-3 times

1/1 2000

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