{"id":9137,"date":"2012-04-28T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mensbasketballhoopscoop.com\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2016-01-11T03:52:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:52:04","slug":"pack-line-defense-learn-from-chris-mack-and-xavier-university-basketball-high-school-basketball-hoop-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mensbasketballhoopscoop.com\/pack-line-defense-learn-from-chris-mack-and-xavier-university-basketball-high-school-basketball-hoop-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pack-Line Defense | Learn from Chris Mack and Xavier University Basketball | High School Basketball Hoop Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I think that basketball coaches can learn a lot from Chris Mack and Xavier’s Defensive Identity:\u00a0 Pack-Line Defense<\/strong>.\u00a0 Chris Mack was an assistant to Sean Miller at Xavier University before he got the head job.\u00a0 Chris Mack has continued the school’s program at a high level.\u00a0 Coach Mack is a guy that is one hundred percent basketball.<\/p>\n

When Sean Miller was in his first season as a head coach, he used a number of different defenses, depending on match-ups, game strategy, and so on.\u00a0 They didn’t have a defensive identity at all.\u00a0 Sean Miller started calling the best defensive coaches in college basketball to determine what he needed to do.\u00a0 Miller decided to be a pack-line defense team and would implement the scheme’s principles and philosophy at every opportunity.\u00a0 He hired James Whitford to help with the transition.\u00a0 James Whitford played for Dick Bennett and coached with Miami of Ohio’s Charlie Coles, both of them loved the sticky, lane clogging defense.<\/p>\n

What is the Pack-Line Defense<\/em>?\u00a0 It’s a man to man defense that keeps the ball out of the lane, it doesn’t let your team get spread out defensively, it’s not worried about denying in the passing lanes or taking risks to make the game frenzied.\u00a0 You want to make sure that every shot is outside the lane and contested.\u00a0 The pack-line defense demands intense individiual defense, because you are going to pressure the ball really hard.<\/p>\n

Chris Mack believes in the defense, because it gave the players the answers that they needed and the coaches knew what they needed to teach to have the team play better.\u00a0 You might not be the most talented team, but you can be good on defense.\u00a0 I think that you will be able to learn from Stephen Dale’s Notes on the Pack-Line Defense.<\/p>\n

Stephen Dale<\/em><\/strong> is\u00a0one of our excellent basketball contributors for Men\u2019s Basketball\u00a0HoopScoop<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0He is the assistant varsity boys basketball coach at University High School in Baton Rouge, LA (on the campus of LSU).\u00a0
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\nCoach Dale is doing a great\u00a0job with his blog. \u00a0It is a must to read everyday!<\/p>\n

Take a look at Coach Dale\u2019s Blog:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.coachdalehooptalk.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow Coach Dale on Twitter!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I think that basketball coaches can learn a lot from Chris Mack and Xavier’s Defensive Identity:\u00a0 Pack-Line Defense.\u00a0 Chris Mack was an assistant to Sean Miller at Xavier University before he got the head job.\u00a0 Chris Mack has continued the school’s program at a high level.\u00a0 Coach Mack is a guy that is one hundred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPack-Line Defense | Learn from Chris Mack and Xavier University Basketball | High School Basketball Hoop Talk | Basketball Drills<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"| Pack-Line Defense | Learn from Chris Mack and Xavier University Basketball | High School Basketball Hoop Talk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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