Shaka Smart VCU Pressure Defense Clinic Notes
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Shaka Smart VCU Pressure Defense
– VCU 5 Core Values:
o Appreciation
o Enthusiasm
o Competitiveness
o Unselfishness
o Accountability
– Havoc style of play
– Want to force turnovers through pressure – want live ball turnovers
– Do your players know what you want out of defense? Team stops not individual stops, force
quick bad shots
– Create easy offensive opportunities
– Force the opposing team to play different than they practice everyday
– Take players out of their comfort zone
– Be in better shape than opposition to fatigue them
– Who wins the battle when you’re tired?
– “Fatigue makes a coward of us all”
– Pressure D has become their Brand – their Identity
– Energy: must have 5 guys flying around at all times
– Fouling: have to be careful, play smart not stupid
– Communication: talking makes your reaction quicker
– Transition: have to transition quickly from offense into your press
– Deflections: must measure
– Trapping Fundamentals – 3 things that make a good trap
o Ball handlers level of control – better trap = less control
o Element of surprise
o Where you are on the floor – corners, sideline | Shaka Smart VCU Pressure Defense Clinic Notes
– Who do we trap?
o Do not trap good defensive matchups
o Trap the smaller guards
o Never trap the 5 man
– How do we trap?
o Closeout to the trap – short choppy steps, high hands
o Be elastic –as the offensive player moves, defense moves
o Force an obvious pass by making them pivot
o Foul with lower body, never with hands
– Other 3 players have to think like a trapper
– Back player has to be deep as the deepest
– If your trappers force the obvious pass by making them pivot:
o Interceptors must read the obvious pass | Shaka Smart VCU Pressure Defense Clinic Notes
o If the ball is passed ahead of you tip from behind
– Against 2 on 1 stunt the ball handler
– Learn how to play when they are outnumbered
– Ability to defend multiple positions
– Must be close enough to touch
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