Basketball Coaching | Learn the Defensive Basketball Plays from Don Showalter | Don Showalter Full Court Trapping System

Written by Coach Peterman

I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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April 3, 2012

Don Showalter is one of the basketball coaching greats in the High School Ranks at Mid Prairie High (IA) with over 500 career wins and is currently the USA Basketball Developmental coach. He has developed his Full Court Trapping System to disrupt the basketball plays all over the court.

This Full Court Trapping Defense System will mess with your opponent’s offense, speed up the tempo of any game and force turnovers and time-outs. Don Showalter will give you tactics like full court trapping, making adjustments to the press according to personnel, and confuse the other team by matching up with them.

Coach Showalter has a simple press defense that can be used by players of all skill levels. This Press defense is based on constant ball pressure, patience, and rebounding. These basketball coaching notes will show you how to manage different press break attacks. I will also include his five drills to help show the players the effort and control it takes to play this defense.

Coach Showalter will also share two different press breakers. They will put your best three point shooter in range and the other will use the 4 across scheme to break the trap. It will create havoc with their press offense. The Full court Trapping System was the same system that the U17 USA Men’s Basketball Team used to win the 2010 FIBA World Championship. I hope that you enjoy these basketball coaching materials.

Click on the pdf link to download the basketball coaching material for your defensive basketball playbook: