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Purpose: To teach the defensive post player to react quickly to where the ball is passed on the perimeter. The offensive post player works on posting-up techniques and inside moves once he or she receives the pass.
Drill: Two passers are used along with a defensive and offensive post player. One passer is in the wing position and the other passer is toward the corner. The drill begins with a guard to guard pass. The guard will attempt to make a post entry pass if available. If it is not available, pass the ball back to the other guard. The defender must react appropriately as to not allow a post pass. The basic rules for defending the post are as follows: 1) When the ball is above the free throw line extended, the defender should be on the high side of the post player in a 3/4 front with the denial hand and arm in the passing lane. The other arm should be in the arm-bar position to keep the offensive post player from being able to post up as big and strong as he would want to. |
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2) When the ball is below the free throw line extended, the defender should be on the low side of the post in a 3/4 front position. The denial hand and arm-bar should also be used here.
3) There is, however, an exception to rule #2. The exception is when the offensive post player is below the low block position. The defender should then be on the high side, regardless of where the ball is. The reason for this exception is that if the ball is thrown to the post player below the low block, he can be contained behind the backboard and forced into a bad move or be forced to pass the ball back out. If the defender is on the low side when the post player is below the low block, the defender will be easily pinned out of position and unable to defend effectively. 4) When changing from high to low and low to high, use a basic step-through slide. This involves moving around the front of the post player by facing the guard position. The arm-bar and denial hand position changes as you go from high-low or low-high. |
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