The Extreme Defensive Balance Drill is a high-intensity transition exercise that simulates game-like situations where defenders are outnumbered or forced to recover at full speed.
Designed to test decision-making, sprint effort, and communication under pressure, this drill helps players develop the instincts needed to protect the basket in disadvantageous fast-break scenarios.
Ideal for sharpening reaction time, building defensive mindset, and reinforcing team balance principles.
Ideal job that allows you to work on various degrees of opposition (1×1, 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5).
The goal is to get the maximum time of commitment engine and make the most of the space.
Objectives
- Practice balance defensive.
- Organize the attack to have ready the Balance defensive.
- Have you always pass line safe and aggressive.
Contents
- Boat
- Pass
- Shot
- Step Zero
- Tickets to the basket
- Bounce
- Play free patterns
- Changes of hand
- Feints
- Alternation of roles defense/attack
- Attack:
- Counterattack
- Transitions
- Systems
- Attack on area
- Defense:
- Defensa individual
- Zone defense (defense of spaces or zone defense)
- Alternative defense
- Defense mixed
- Defence mutant
- Equality numerical
- 1×1 , 2×2 , 3×3 , 4×4 , 5×5
Recommended age
- From 10 years onwards (Minibasket: category alevín).
Number of players
- From 4 players forward.
- Perfect for 12 players (4 teams of 3 people).
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 8-10 minutes.
- Another option is to put a target score of points, or basket (even scoring defenses).
Equipment and facilities
- A pitch whole of Basketball.
- 3 basketballs. 1 ball for each group waiting, and 1 ball in play.
Note: you can also play with only one ball and step is practiced to draw quickly from a basket or pass fast counter-attack.
Initial layout and description
We divided the group into two teams. Each team is placed dealt to each end line and ordered by group.
The exercise begins in the following way. Leaves the group 1 of the ‘A’ Team to the other basket and makes a pitch of 3 points, 2 points or an input (depending on the age or level of difficulty). In the instant the ball touches the ground or crosses the network, the group 1’s ‘B’ Team pulls out of the background, making a quick exit. The group 1 of the team must make a good Balance Defensive to avoid a contrataque.
The process is repeated starting the following wave after theft, recovery, rebound of the defending team, or after crossing the ball to the network as a result of a launch to the basket become.
Variants
- You can only finish with an entrance to the basket.
- You can only pull 2 points.
- Only you can pull out of the restricted zone.
- You can only pull 3 points.
- 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.
- In case of having equal numbers, there is that to make a foundation single or collective technical or tactical marked previously by the Coach.
- Can be made with just one ball. In this case, the exercise is more realistic and tunes the speed of reaction of the players having to get behind the back line in case of fit basket or pass to the bands for the output of contrataque in case of theft, recovery or rebound defensive.
- Balance End-to-3 teams
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
