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A good guard will hound the ball. He should always be found between his
opponent andthe basket. ‘This is the first fumdementel that should never be
neglected. | ;
| A wily guard will never let the opposition slip in behind him. He will
play the bell and not the man. A orafty guard always imows how to use his
weight to utente without fouling. All prospective guards should take boxing
lessons. ‘The boxing ‘Malls develop finished guarding technique. The guard
should always be on top of the ball and when he cannot get it he should cover
his opponent. The boy who spends the greater part “ his childhood romping with
a playful dog may becom in his college years a star ‘pasketball guard, Por he
has learned from the scrinal, certain ine movenen'a which will aid " in

 

diagnosing the fundamental movenents of Wks oppos
his future basketball career. By Secwutiia how to neet these instinctive hay
and bound s of his early animal compenion, the Sathii tive guard will in veri ,

 

competition be more able to divine the next moveremths of his basketball ‘opponent.
Some coaches dsaribe this wmoanny sense of the guard as the sixth sense. truly
it is an instinctive veintiun which is sevetqnet 0 & high degree. these |
instinctive reactions must be stronger in the guard then in his. opponents, or he
will not succeed. — |
A versatile aiid outthinks his opponent and beats him to sent tdeds play
A ‘waibabaiell guard knows his areas 80 well that he may intentionally leave ‘ :
position appareritly ‘unguarded for the purpose of drawing his opponent into a trap.
By having perfeot confidence in his.own strength and agility, the guard will feign
a certain inertia or lassitude to encourage his opponent to ne a shot in
supposedly uncovered territory. |
Much after the manner of a cat lying near a rat hole watching for the

escape of the rodent does the guard torment his opponent. The cat, thoroughly

relaxed and at a distance from the hole, will encourage the rat to attempt an