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BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK: FULL COURT PRESSURE 1 BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK: FULL COURT PRESSURE By Coach Patrick Anderson WWW.BASKETBALLPRACTICEPLAN.COM BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK: FULL COURT PRESSURE 2 Copyright Notice The material enclosed is copyrighted. You do not have resell rights or giveaway rights to the material provided herein. Only customers that have purchased this material are authorized to view it. If you think you may have an illegally distributed copy of this material, please contact us immedi- ately. Please email [email protected] to report any illegal distribution. Copyright 2008 BasketballPracticePlan.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or by information storage and retrieval systems. It is illegal to copy this material and publish it on another web site, news group, forum, etc. even if you include the copyright notice. 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WWW.BASKETBALLPRACTICEPLAN.COM BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK: FULL COURT PRESSURE 3 CONTENTS Full Court Pressure.................................................................................... 4 A Full and Half Court Press........................................................................................... 4 Reasons for a Press ...................................................................................................... 4 Basic 1-3-1 Press (Full Court)........................................................................................ 4 The Set Up..................................................................................................................... 5 Basic 1-3-1 Press (Half Court)....................................................................................... 6 The Set Up..................................................................................................................... 7 The Basic 1-2-1-1 Zone Press....................................................................................... 8 The Set Up..................................................................................................................... 9 Things to Remember with the 1-2-1-1.......................................................................... 9 Man-to-Man Press...................................................................................................... 10 The Set Up................................................................................................................... 10 Keys to Running a Successful Man-to-Man Press..................................................... 11 Breaking the Press...................................................................................................... 11 The Set Up................................................................................................................... 12 Other Options for Breaking the Press ......................................................................... 12 Recommended Resources...................................................................... 14 The Coaching Essentials:............................................................................................ 14 Coach Pat Anderson’s Online Clinics:......................................................................... 15 More Online Clinics from America’s Top Coaches:..................................................... 16 Masters Level Coaching:............................................................................................. 17 Basketball Training Aids for Players:........................................................................... 18 WWW.BASKETBALLPRACTICEPLAN.COM BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK: FULL COURT PRESSURE 4 • The 1-2-1-1 press • Man-to-man press Full Court • How to break a press Pressure At the end you should be able to prepare your team to not only create an effective pressure A Full and Half Court Press defense, but also the basics on how to break one. It’s late in the game and you need to put pres- sure on the opposition – creating a turnover is Basic 1-3-1 Press (Full Court) the only way you are going to be able to put an- other couple baskets up on the scoreboard. We’ll start off with one of the most common You could go the foul route, but your opposition presses that you have – the 1-3-1 trap press. is shooting the lights out from the foul line. This press can be used full court, three-quarter court and at half court – and can be successful Most successful basketball teams have a pres- at each place. sure defense in their arsenal of attacks. While this isn’t a standard defense per se, it is what But, the success lies with the players that exe- most of us in the basketball world refer to as a cute the press, not with the set press itself. ‘press’. We are putting pressure on the oppos- Players need to be aware of where the ball is on ing offensive players. the court, and while they need to pressure, they cannot be over-aggressive or the press can Reasons for a Press easily be broken. The press is commonly used for the following Not all presses employ a trap, but most do. situations: Like a defensive zone trap, the best way to do it is by surprise. Only the team doing the press • To create a turnover should know when it is going to be sprung, be- • To disrupt an offense that is rolling cause the element of surprise is extremely im- along portant. • To disrupt the timing of an offense • To try to create a 10-second violation 1 man In order to succeed in making your press work, This is the most important player on the press. your players need to know the purpose of your The success of the press lies in the success of press, and how to execute it properly. The in- the 1 man doing his or her job. This person is struction in this guide is going to help you pro- the front man for the press and they will influ- vide proper direction for your players so your ence the dribbler in the direction they want them press works the way is should be. to go to set up the trap. In this guide we will go over the following: Tip: Try to force the dribbler to use their weaker dribbling hand to get away from the press – for • The 1-3-1 Full court press most players this is the left hand side. • The 1-3-1 half court press 2 and 4 man WWW.BASKETBALLPRACTICEPLAN.COM BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK: FULL COURT PRESSURE 5 defense on the player receiving the in- These players set the bottom side of the trap bounds pass. The intent is not to disrupt (as you will see in the diagrams). It is impera- the pass, but rather to create the oppor- tive that these players are quick enough to get tunity to trap and then intercept the pass. into position to set the trap. I have seen hun- dreds of presses broken because the 2 and 4 The one man will attempt to influence the men could not get into position. ball handler in one direction or the other (usually his weak hand), and once he or When the trap goes to one side, the opposite she drives this player to the sidelines, the side man acts as an interceptor of the return 2 or 4 man should be there to set the pass to the player who in-bounded the ball. It is trap. important to pick this player up immediately, be- cause the easiest way to break a press is to If this player gets beat on the trap and a give and go down the court. pass is made up the middle, then they need to scurry back to recover on de- 3 man fense. This is the center fielder of the bunch. This • The 2 and 4 men have one of two re- player guards the center of the court with their sponsibilities: life. They mustn’t