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How to Change Your Team\u2019s Defensive Mentality Using Consecutive Stops by Raymond Navarro<\/p>\n
Basketball is a game of runs, and to go on a run, you have to accomplish two things. One, score the basketball and two, get multiple stops in a row. For the 2011 national championship UCONN Huskies, consecutive stops was a huge emphasis and a pillar on which they built their championship team. Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun believed defensive momentum is essential to winning games. So UCONN\u2019s assistant coaches would chart consecutive stops. Whenever the team would get three or more stops in a row that was called a \u201ckill\u201d. Their goal was to get three kills a half. In the 2011 season, the Huskies were 21-2 when getting four kills in a game. They were 18-0 when getting five kills in a game. In the championship game against Butler in 2011, UConn had seven kills. The current head coach of the Huskies Kevin Ollie talked about his team’s defensive mentality on getting consecutive stops on the \u201cCoaches Show\u201d podcast in 2014 saying \u201cWe haven’t lost a game in 2 years when we get 5 or more (kills) in a game\u201d.<\/p>\n
The University of Virginia also chart \u201ckills\u2019 but instead the Cavaliers call them \u201cgaps.\u201d Tony Bennett has been emphasizing gaps to go along with his pack-line defense ever since he got to Virginia. Once the Cavaliers get a gap or get close to a gap, assistant coach Ron Sanchez (who is keeping track of stops and how many they need to get a gap during a game) lets the team know, and the team feeds off it. Virginia has been one of the top defensive teams in the country for many years partly because of their discipline pack-line defense but more so because of their defensive mentality. Being able to measure defensive success by getting consecutive stops is a way the whole team can buy into playing defense<\/a>. Even their fans have bought into playing defense and getting consecutive stops. The scoreboard usually shows how many consecutive stops the team\u2019s pack line defense<\/a> has. The crowd goes just as crazy for a great defensive possession finished with a forced airball, shot clock violation, or forced turn over than a magnificent dunk.<\/p>\n Bonus:\u00a0 Click on this image below to get the best skill development playbook in the NCAA!\u00a0 And it’s FREE too.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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