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Today’s feature coach is Lyndsay Gottlieb, women's head coach for the USC Trojans

With the abundance of pick-and-roll actions being utilized at all levels, coaches continually need to evolve their coverages and strategies. The last thing you want to do is stick to a defensive strategy that is outdated and not effective.

During the Pro Coach Clinic, Coach Gottlieb shared her thoughts and strategies based on her work as a college coach and now on the bench in the NBA in Defending The Pick and Roll From College to The Pros.  

Coach Gottlieb shares in this clinic

• How to build PNR coverages into your preseason and offseason work
• Concepts such as Switch and Down, Bully, and Deep Drop
• Overview of the Next Coverage, one of the newest PNR coverages

In this clip, Coach Gottlieb discusses the basic principles of guarding a pick and roll both from the on-ball defenders perspective as well as off-ball defenders.

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The best takeaway for me was in the Q&A segment where Coach Gottlieb talked about the importance of creating footwork drills based on the actions a player would perform in defending a ball screen (Example: a post player sprinting from low post to opposite wing, then sliding out as if they are hedging, then sprinting back) vs. using cones.

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