Teas Peeves Defensive Style

#1 posting 6.18.2007
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DEFENSE #1
Here is a submitted photo in the Barnum tournament over the weekend with Bigfork's Shelby Goble defending a Hibbing player. Goble is nice and low, knees bent ready to move in any direction, with vision on the stomach, the only thing the offensive player can not fake (unless she is a belly dancer). Now the player in the background doesn't have the knees bent quite as much.

If you spent as many hours in the gym you will notice defenders on the ball get low (some of them). But their vision goes to the ball, or the head where they get easily duped. Almost universally off the ball are defenders are vertical.

All of this leads us to
COACH TEAS' PET PEEVES
Today Coach Teas looks at the defensive side of things. I will list three a week and then list his loves the week after that.

"Listing defensive pet peeves was fairly easy once I thought about it.

Defense is very much mental requiring less skill but a lot of willingness to work and having a great "team first" attitude. Coaches love players who sacrifice for the team, who think about and do the little often unheralded things.

Defensive pet peeves became things I love to see. A wonderful place to view even more great things to do is in " Stuff Good Players should Know" by Dick DeVenzio.

Lucky is the coach who has kids on his/her team who takes great defense and hustle to heart. I think girls coaches are fortunate in having athletes who seem more willing to please their coach than coaches of boys teams. The pressure to be "cool" is greater on boys thus their game not as entertaining as games where players are less into themselves. (my prejudice) "

12. Failure rotate under the hoop on weak side when strong side penetration takes place.

11. Failure to help when a teamate is beat.

10. Double or triple teaming a defensive rebounder thus opening up folks down court. I saw it happen way too often in a state tournament game when the team doing it gave up a 10 point lead in a semifinal game.

HILL IN COLORADO
The USA Red team finished third in the USA Olympic Developmental Festival in Colorado Springs as they beat Brazil 82-69. Hill had 6 points on the day, and averaged 11 for the tournament.

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