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With the exception of last year’s team,
we have played a rather slow type of
came and try to keep the ball a good
share of the time. We find also that, to
hold our opponents’ score down, it is
necessary to work a great deal on rebound-
ing off both backboards. That, we believe,
is one place where basketball games are
won and lost.

Ninety per cent of our practice consists

| of from two to five players at one end of

| the court working against an equal num-

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her on defense. We believe offense and
defense both can best be taught under

| game situations.

As I mentioned earlier in this article,

our defense is ahead of our offense. We
try to get along holding the opponents

 

| as low as possible and getting what points

we can on the boys’ individual ability.
After seeing what they can do rather well,
I try to place them in formations on the
court where they will have opportunities
to do what they can do well. That is the
way that I have tried to build our offense
and defense for the past few years.

As I am supposed to stress defense, I
will list further two drills that we use.

The boys work in pairs, one man shoot-
ing from around the free-throw line or
from a position farther out with a guard
between him and the basket. The guard
tries to force him to shoot, as he pulls
away from the basket, in order to get the
shot off, but at the same time the guard
keeps in a position to stop him from driv-
ing by for close-in shots. If the man gets
his shot off, the guard wheels and gets in
position for rebounds from the backboard.

In the second drill, I place two guards
on two offensive men and let them do
everything that they can to score; they
pass the ball out to me at the edge of the
circle and I return it when they are open.
The offensive men force quick trading of
men, by cutting close or coming out far-
ther, faking and driving in, or shooting,
giving a guard every situation to cope
with. The drills are about all that we
work on to get our man-to-man defense
going.

To me the big advafitages of man-for-

1. Responsibility is

2. Men

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can re-form and endeavor to make the
play work on a succeeding try. It is to
be remembered that the purpose of pass-
ing in and out of the zone defense is to
flatten the defense, make it retreat, so
that the offense can shoot over it.

Play 4, shown in Diagram 4, is the com-
panion to Play 3. The offensive guard X5
passes the ball to X3 and cuts for the

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