How to Play Basketball With Better Defense

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Susan Summons, and I am a college basketball coach here at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus. Let's talk about how to play basketball with better defense. You have to be able to simulate what is going to happen in the basketball game. First of all basketball is stop and go, it's action. So as a basketball player in order to become a better basketball player with defense you have to have both of those components while you are practicing. You have to have a good defender who is defending you while you are learning to be a better shooter, and a better basketball player. And you have to have and make sure that that player is a good defender. Because that forces you to become a better player. If you are playing and competing against a better defender. If you are learning how to be a good defender you have to make sure you are using the proper defensive stance. You have to make sure your hips are low, your knees are over your toes, you are not leaning back, your hands are up, you are mirroring the basketball, you are being aggressive, you are being tenacious. And you have to have a passion about playing defense, and being a better defender in the game of basketball. And as a player who is competing against good defense you have to be aggressive as well. So you want to create both components, both components the defensive component and the offensive component where you are working and playing against good defense. And the component where you are defending and providing good defense. And that creates for a better opportunity for a player to become a better basketball player, because you are creating a real situation that happens in the game. And whenever you can do that, and practice a real game like situation you are going to become a better basketball player. Because you are practicing the way you play. And listen folks, no matter where you are at in America, in the world you have to practice the way you want to play. If you practice hard you play hard, if you practice against good defense, you are going to play and perform and excel against good defense in the game. Because that is what you have been practicing."