Youth Basketball Training for Defense: Free coaching tips

Youth Basketball Training for Defense: Making your defense hard to beat!

It's true. The best offense IS a good defense!

Here at Simply Youth Basketball we believe this.That's why we have given you Youth Basketball Training for Defense. We have compiled a list of drills, tactics, and defensive sets, relevant to those who play at the youth level.

Principles of Defense: Zone and Man-To-Man

Following the direction you get from our site will give you everything you need to have a first rate defense at any youth level in any youth league.

From this page you can access multiple defensive sets and choose the one that is best suited to shut down your opponent.

In order to help you with your youth basketball training for defense, we have stuck to four or five easy to teach defensive sets that we have seen youth teams have a lot of success with.

Remember the difficulty of a task doesn't mean it works better!

Click here to find detailed breakdowns of the uses, rotations, and benefits of these defenses as well as the 3-2 Zone, Box-1 combo, and the Tri-2!

2-1-2 Defense
1-2-2 Defense
2-3 Defense
1-3-1 Defense
We have several drills with diagrams coming soon, so check us out on occasion to see the new Man-to-Man drills in the near future. And we have been asked to devote a section of our Defense page to the press. So you will also be seeing that.

Our youth basketball training defensive techniques are different types of defensive slide drills which are used by coaches around the country in all levels of basketball. These will be sure to give your players the fundamental techniques required to defend out of any defense properly.

Defense Drill #1
Defense Drill #2
Defense Drill #3

As promised we have began to add our Man to Man Defense Tips and Drills section here. We have just added our Man to Man Defense Basics to help you. We are now getting ready to add our Man to Man Defense Drills also, to help you learn the specific movements and rotations of a defender facing specific situations and motions of the Offense. We hope you find these youth basketball training aids useful!

Man to Man Defense Basics 1
Man to Man Defense Basics 2
Man to Man Defense Basics 3
Cut the Cutter
Fight the Flash

In the meantime, a few tips for the Man defense are: See ball and man. When playing straight up, see body, not ball. Stay between ball and goal, with the exception of attempting to force player dribbling the ball to their weak side. When guarding away from ball, try to remember, "see ball and man, one pass off help". And finally, do not turn back on defender no more than is absolutely necessary.

Concerning our set of Zone Defense's you will see here, it should be noted that we have only shown the movements of the defense from one side of the court. But the movements are the same if the ball is to the other side...just with the players guarding that area. And also, game situations will always dictate the exact movements of a defense. These are just a reference point to give you a head start.

You can also benefit greatly from our FUNDAMENTALS section.

Our youth basketball training drills are designed to help your kids learn a multitude of skills, quickly, and without wasting precious practice time.

Each of the links above will give you information on a different aspect of defense, so that you can best choose what your team is suited for.

Our defensive sets and drills are all highly effective while never being too complex for youth level players.

Whether your team is 5-8 yr old, or 9-12, Simply Youth Basketball has one that will work for you. Check it out.

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