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improve basketball offensive play. We use a great mmber of pass-outs when we
resever the bail on our offensive backboard. it is perfectly obvious that the
defense will flatten itself around the basket when the ball is passed in toward
the basket. Therefore, with « good system of recoveries and passing out it is
principle. It is a strate of mn for men and a strata of sone, and there is
& transition from one to the other depending upon the pley situation. When
two offensive nen start « screening play on our players we ewiteh, slide or
trade opponents, which is exactly the principle the professionals play. te
the defense.
men to guerd and play those men until a screen by the opponents is attempted.
Tt ie then that the player calis to his teammate, “Switch”, and our men take
Personally I have been unable to see the reason for the objection of
ony conch to © sine or mn te nm defense. Most teams awiteh from one to the
other as the occasion demands. In football some sosches use a sone defense at
times, and others use a man to man. He football coach objects to the other
football coach using a certain type of defense, so why should « basketball
eoach object to a defense used by a particular basketball coach. ‘The reason
able to find paths that they can work through on a set defense. ‘There are