Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills
-Two Defensive Keys | Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills
1. What is our identity?
It doesn’t matter what it is necessarily, it just matters that you have one that you and your players firmly believe in. “What do we want to be about?” you have to ask yourself and it needs to be something that you and your players say “This is who we are. This is what we hang our hats on.”
2. What are we willing to live with?
Every defense has a fallback. We want to pressure you the length of the court and because of this, we will give up some easy layups. So, you must ask yourself “What are you willing to give up?”
-Two non-negotiables we have in our program | Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills
1. Don’t give up middle
2. Pressure (length and versatility are a must for us)
-At South Carolina they aren’t very technical, it’s more of a matter of “Just get it done.” Because of this, as much of their drills is about creating a mentality than anything else.
-How do you measure yourself defensively?
South Carolina: Deflections, anytime you get a hand on the ball in any way. We need 40 a game to be successful. That’s our number 1 goal defensively every game.
-What we believe: play hard and play with trust that your teammate will be there to help you.
-Teaches an open denial stance learned from his college coach, Ralph Willard (who spoke later in the clinic). In the open denial stance, the defensive player is up in the offensive player’s chest and the arm closest to the defender is extended (rather than the traditional denial stance with the arm closest to the ball extended) with the defensive player’s body open to the ball handler. Player is one step off the passing lane and they will do this out to the NBA three point line. Players find it awkward at first, but they learn to really like it as it gives them a better chance at help and prevents the backdoor more effectively.
-Believes that there isn’t an original idea left in basketball. Every scheme or thought is stolen or modified.
-In order to avoid confusion with his kids he calls the two transition periods, “Transition Offense” and “Conversion Defense.”
-We do work early to keep the ball out of the middle by our point guard pressuring the ball handler in the backcourt. We teach him to retreat back to the halfcourt circle until another guard passes then attack handler to force him sideline.
-The man covering the inbounder (or the man who jammed the man on the rebound) getting to the level of the ball and discouraging the middle drive.
-Another thing we want to take away is the quick advance pass up the sideline.
-Every drill, everything we do defensively has to be loud. There needs to be a talking aspect to everything we do.
-The most important steps in conversion defense are the first 3.You must sprint these out.
-We want you to be aggressive defensively. That doesn’t mean reach and gamble, but you have the freedom to try to make plays in our system.
-Best way to slow offensive movement (besides having 6’8” athletes): have active hands.
-If you’re going to pressure and trap, you CANNOT give up straight line passes. The lofted or tipped pass gives your defense time to recover.
-When trapping, don’t reach, but be physical with your lower body. We can’t afford to be split in our traps and we MUST sprint out of our traps. The best trap does us no good if we’re walking out of it and the offense can do whatever they want after.
-Love 1-on-1 drills because it instills toughness and it forces you to find a way to stop the other guy, there’s no hiding in a 1-on-1 situation.
Drills | Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills
-Loves to do defensive stations at the start of practice: 3 different drills with 1 coach teaching each. 8 minutes on the clock then rotate.
-5 man weave 3-on-2 2-on-1 | Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills
Passer and shooter are the two defenders in the 3-on-2 situation. Their goals must be to force the offense to pick a side and to make the offense throw at least 2 passes because anything more will have help coming. On 2-on-1 the player must get deep in the lane (Tell them to run all the way to the rim because too many players stop at the free throw line on this).
-Fundamental Defensive Drill | Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills
A manager/coach starts with the ball with a defensive player just behind him. Defensive player must scramble to get in front of the ball. Coach passes the ball to a coach situated on the right wing as the defensive player jumps to the ball. Coach heads to the block where he is fronted before going away. Defensive player is now in help until the ball is skipped to another coach on the other side and the defensive player moves into the open denial stance. Ball is shot, defensive player boxes out and the drill is done.
-1 Minute Drill: a 4-on-4 drill Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills|
which begins with 1 minute on the clock and the defense needs a full minute of good defense to get off the court. If the offense scores or there is an offensive rebound or if the coaches just see something they don’t like (“a stop isn’t the ball not going in the hoop. A stop is defending an entire possession the way we want”), the clock is reset back to 1 minute. This can go as long as a coach wants it to (record is 37 minutes). This is a great drill for showing the players that defense is about competing and stopping the other guy from doing what he wants to do than it is about fundamentals.
-1-on-1 Cone Drill: as shown in Mike Rice notes.
-Loose Ball Drill |Darrin Horn Defensive Philosophy with Drills
Every loose ball needs to be ours. Drill begins with 2 players on each lane line at the baseline. Coach rolls a ball out, player who picks up the ball is on offense. 2 dribbles max.
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