Defensive Competitiveness
Texas' Vic Schaefer, Defensive Drills, 1v1 SSG
In this week’s newsletter:
🎥 A Quick Timeout Podcast: Inspiring Defense with Vic Schaefer
🏀 Vic Schaefer’s Defensive Drills
⭐ SSG of the Week: Jump to the Ball + 1v1
❓ Coaches Mailbag: Answering Your Questions
🔒 3v3 Peel Switching
Inspiring Players to Play Defense
On this week’s A Quick Timeout podcast, long-time college basketball coach, Vic Schaefer, shares his defensive philosophy, including what to teach and emphasize, how to use small-sided games to rep defense, and drills for defensive rebounding.
I asked Coach Schaefer what the most important stats for his team’s defense were…
Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts…
Vic Schaefer's Defense Drills
In the podcast above, Coach Vic Schaefer talked about several of his favorite drills and small-sided games for defense. Here are explanations, FastModel FastDraw diagrams, and videos of a few of those.
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⭐ SSG of the Week: Jump to the Ball + 1v1
Multiple man-to-man skills repped in this small-sided game. Jump to the ball as your man passes to a teammate. Bump the cutter (no “face cuts”). Finish with 1v1.
Want to maximize your practice time? I’ll will show you how to use small-sided games to simultaneously develop your players skills while also teaching team defense. These resources will provide a framework for building individual and team defensive skills into both individual workouts and team practices. Whether you're a traditional man-to-man coach, Pack Line coach, or zone defense coach, there are SSGs for teaching transition defense, on-ball defense, closeouts, help defense, and rebounding. Check out my course, SSGs for Player Development and Team Defense.
Basketball Coaches Mailbag
Basketball season is here! As a teacher, I was taught that if one person is asking a question, there are others probably having similar questions. This week’s mailbag includes coaches’ questions regarding press offense, flowing from transition offense to half-court offense, conceptual offense vs. zone defenses, and terminology.
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🔒 3v3 Peel Switching
Neutralize advantages more often by avoiding having two defenders on the ball. When an on-ball defender is beat, immediately rotate. Whether you’re a peel switching team or not, this strategy is a great way to create faster rotations by your defense. Here’s a small-sided game to practice this strategy.