This 3-on-3 help defense drill focuses on teaching players how to provide effective support from the weak side, rotate properly, and recover with controlled closeouts.
It simulates live offensive actions that force defenders to communicate, anticipate drives, and adjust their positioning in real time.
Ideal for building team defensive fundamentals and reinforcing collective responsibility.
Objectives
- First-aid out-of-zone.
- Jump to help and change towards more distant.
- Rotation of defenders
Contents
- Boat
- Pass
- Shot
- Outputs
- Stops
- Step Zero
- Tickets to the basket
- Bounce
- Play free patterns
- Changes of hand
- Change of pace
- Counterattack
- Transitions
- Feints
- The defense of player with ball
- Defense of the player without the ball
- First and second aid
- Changes of pairing
- Defensive rotation
Recommended age
- From 10 years onwards (Minibasket: category alevín).
Number of players
- From 6 players on.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 5-7 minutes (you can add a few variants of the equator temporary or last third of exercise time).
Equipment and facilities
- 1 ball available for each wave.
- A pitch whole of Basketball.
Initial layout and description
There are three attacking players: one with a ball on 45 (1), another without the ball in the low post on the opposite side of the ball (4) and the other without the ball at 45 degrees on the side of pole under (2). We put three defenders: one parallel to the player with the ball [1], shoulder to shoulder with him, looking towards the ring, the other defending in assists (line ring-ring approx.) the post on the opposite side of [4], and another defender in aids [2] defending the eaves on the other side.
The player with the ball (1) start penetration. The advocate, [1] attempts to regain the advantage by guiding the penetration to the bottom line. The player who defends the low post [4], which is in aid, it jumps to the step of the penetration THE MOST OUT OF THE AREA as you can.
In the time that the player jump to the step of the penetration, the defender who was accompanied by the penetration of [1] will abandon their couple to go to defend the attacker, farthest from the ball (2). The defender of the player on the other wing player [2] is going to close little by little as the penetration proceeds, trying to defend the possible passes that are given to the pole attacker in motion. Once that has occurred the rotation and the penetrator has released the ball, we kept playing until resolution, with our rules of defensive (i.e.: the little that remains with the big defend him in front of him).
We stand for the different situations that may arise jumping aggressive to the help and rotating, knowing that the player who is second to the principle always rotates in the most distant. After resolved the situation, the attacking players pass to defend, and the defense goes to attack.
Probable errors
- The player who is overcome accompanies too much penetration, making almost a 2c1 and providing the pass to the player farthest.
- The player who performs the help salta little aggressive or too close to the ring.
- The defender of the eaves on the other side is too attached to his couple and he doesn’t get to defend the second aid.
Corrections
- The player who is overcome accompanies too much penetration, making almost a 2c1 and providing the pass to the player farthest.
- The player who performs the help salta little aggressive or too close to the ring.
- The defender of the eaves on the other side is too attached to his couple and he doesn’t get to defend the second aid.
Variants
- You can only finish with an entrance to the basket.
- Only you can pull out of the restricted zone.
- Only you can pull into the restricted zone.
- You play without boat.
- There is a limit of boats per player each time that it receives.
- There is a limit of passes per team on field of attack.
Note: all variants are combinable.
Authors: Ignacio Casado, Carlos López-Tello, Álvaro Sánchez and Pablo Atencia
