Building Blocks of a Team’s Pick-N-Roll Defense

Coach ,

Now is the time for quality individual work, and nothing is more important than zeroing in on some key defensive concepts to start preparing our team.

So much to cover on the defensive side of the ball between pick-n-roll, transition defense and good ol’ fashion man-to-man concepts and drills – today we wanted to focus on a few building blocks of a team’s Pick-N-Roll defense.

Here are a few concepts that I like.

Coach Brett Reed of Leigh University discusses how to guard the ball handler in a Pick and Roll situation.

Guarding Ball Handler

Coach Jay Young discusses how to defend the ball and the tactics that they use at Fairfield University.

Guarding the Ball

Coach Todd Simon shows strategies on how to avoid the ball screen 

Avoiding ball Screens

Coach Liam Flynn, discusses how to read the roller

Reading the Roll

To your success,

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P.S. I'm assuming you've already registered for next week's CLA Clinic-but just in case it slipped through the cracks, here's your reminder.

Over three nights, 13 coaches from the NBA and Division I, like Coach Flynn above, will show how they're using constraints to create more game-like practices, improve decision-making, and develop players without constantly stopping to give instructions.

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