Wheelchair Basketball: Defensive Tactics

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"Defensive, like if I'm on defense and this guy is on offense, I've got to be in an extremely good chair position because he's quick, he's fast. He is trying to get around me, there's other guys getting in my way behind me, but my idea is to stop him. Now I could go sit under the basket, but then he would come in here and he would get his shot off. And he might score. Some teams play really tight defense, you know they're out pressing, they're on people's wheelchairs. I'm on my guy, that guy is on that guy, that guy is on that guy but that can be a little risky, cause they get around you and they get layups. Other teams will pack it in under the basket and they make you shoot outside shots cause they don't think you can make the long shot so it's just, it's just every team is different, every coach is different. Sitting in a chair you still have the basic passes. You have what you would call a chest pass, you know where you just, maybe you'll bounce pass it. So you would pass it to your teammate, so that's a chest pass. You might have to use your left hand, kind of in a baseball pass here. And of course there is bounce passes and non bounce passes or again you could do your right hand the same way. You can have an overhead pass, where you just you know you just kind of like that. Often times we'll just be dribbling in a wheelchair and we'll just kind of right just flip it. We don't have to pick it up with both hands we just poom we just flip it. So again there's just different ways to pass a ball and catch a ball and do everything."