Today’s basketball coaching notes are on the Pack-line Defense Philosophy.
These basketball notes show the advantages to running the Pack-line Defense and it’s benefits. They also give you the three components that will make your defense successful. Defensive transition is essential to your defense and by learning the pack-line defense philosophy you will have a quick access to one of the most used right now defenses. Learn all about this defense.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky. The wolf that should keep it should prosper, but the wolf that should break it must die. For the strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”
— Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
The ‘Success Formula’: “3D + 30 == Success”
3 D(efense)
1. Make them shoot over you; 2. Only give them one shot; 3. Do not foul.
3 O(ffense)
1. Take care of the basketball; 2. Take good shots; 3. Make your free throws. If we can achieve these six objectives, we will be successful. The advantages of the “Pack” defense are: 1. We do not have to be better athletes than our opponents to be successful.
2. We do not have to be quicker than our opponents to be successful.
3. We do not have to be bigger than our opponents to be successful. We will not always be more athletic, quicker or bigger than our opponents. Playing this defense is to our advantage. Taking into account the 3 above advantages, a slower player can be assigned to a quicker opponent to guard and achieve success. His success is not an individual success; rather it is a team success. While this defense is a true man-to-man defense, it is a man-to-man defense that has, in reality, five defenders guarding the person with the basketball. We have a ‘Pack’ mentality. The following page begins explaining the defensive components of our ‘success formula’ (3D +3O = Success)…
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