Basketball Drills: Cutting Off the Offensive Player

Video Transcript

"Ok, now this next drill is another defensive drill in the Pro Passing Defensive Show. Now, with this particular drill, it's normally done in full court, but we are going to shorten it up, and make it interesting and just utilize all of these lines on the floor, ok? One essential part of playing defense is just being able to cut the offensive player off. So when we do those drills, we're not necessarily trying to be the fastest, we're just trying to be the strongest, and the accurate. I mean the one that's the most accurate. So, what you want to do, is you want to get low on defense, and when an offensive player makes a move in one direction, you just want to be able to cut him off, that's it. Staying low and being strong, to accept the contact. Ok, and he reverses dribble, you want to be able to cut him off again, ok? So I'll start here on this side of the sideline, ok? And what I'm going to do, is I'm going to run up, pivot, defensive slide, back pedal, defensive slide, you know what? I'll change them up, but you see what I'm doing and you can be creative in your own practice as well. When you use your mind, great things happen. As you can see, it's pretty creative, using the lines. It's interesting. You get some work out of it and basically you're just working on your fundamental movements. Pro Passing and Defense."