4 Defensive Principles | Become A better Defender | by Pro Training Basketball

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What's up basketball world! For today's training, we will have a training video featuring "4 Defensive Principles | Become A better Defender" by Pro Training Basketball. Today we're going to teach you how to work on your defense. We're going to give you the basic level of how to improve your defense and we have four things that you need to do as a player. So, let's get right into it.

Athletic Base and Active Hands

The first is the most important thing you need to have a good base, good stance, so you can move, be athletic, but stay in front of your defender. So, you got to have a stance. A little bit wider than your shoulders. You're set, you're sitting down in that stance. Your chest is up, you need to get used to sitting in this stance. This is your athletic stance. When you're posting up playing defense, a lot of things come from this stance and you need to be comfortable with that. So, you need to be in this stance. You need to have your chest up and then you want to have active hands, right, so if the ball is high, you know the defender has the ball high here, you want to trace the ball with one hand and the other hand is often playing coming up for a steal if you can. You always want to go up or your guard in the crossover. So, want to be in an athletic stance, wide base, sitting down, active hands if you're tracking the ball, tracing the ball contesting the shot with that same hand if the ball is there. And then you want to protect yourself with the crossover with the opposite hand.

Footwork

The second thing is the footwork. So, for the footwork, you want to make sure that if the defender is going the certain direction, you want to open up and then kick push is what we say, so if the defender is going by me or trying to get by me, I'm going to open up and then I'm going to push on my outside leg and get space. So, I'm kicking and pushing but by that, you open up with this leg kick and then you're pushing. Okay, so that's the second thing. If you have good footwork and you have a good stance, you'll be a much better defender but you're going to have to work on that.

Communicate

The third thing is you need to communicate. on defense a lot of things that are a little underrated. People think all they're just guard their defender but they don't communicate. As a defender, I can’t see a lot of things. I don't know if a screen is coming, a good defender, a good teammate will let me know if a screen is coming. Or he'll stay shot, I'll say shot when the shot goes up so my teammates who might not be seeing it will know. If you guys communicate overall as a team you'll be a much better team defensively and that's important.

Defensive Principles

And then the fourth thing is you need to really apply the principles of the defense. If you're in man-to-man, you need to be denying your guy. If you're playing full-court, you need to be aware of what's going on.

Alright, those are the four things. You need to have good stance, a good athletic base, need to have your footwork down and you need to communicate. If you do that, you will see your defense improve.

And that's it. I hope this training video helps you guys with your defense. To all basketball players out there who want to improve themselves, stay tuned for more of these training videos. See you around!

Credits to Pro Training Basketball.

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