Basketball Overload Defense Drill

Sounds like a great drill. I'm definitely going to try it next season.

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very gog but we need something more active

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thats a very good drills
i well traying 3 on 2 at start .
tanks for you

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Looks interesting, will definitly try them out

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shouldn't the sentence read ...one less defender while trying to stop the offense

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Yes, it should. Thank you, Tom.

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Looks great, what a way to teach communication between defenders as well.

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This is a great drill to teach on fastbreaks, just need to make sure the defense defend the passing lanes and which ever defender is in front of the ball attack after the free throw line.

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This is a wonderful drill. I employed it 2 years ago. I was having a communication problem and one day I just reduce the amount of defensive players and made the communication and rotation work. I found that my players started to enjoy it that started to request it. I use more 4 on 3

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This is exactly what I have been thinking about for this week’s drill. Thank you for the heads up.

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Hi, I was reviewing your overload defense drill. Once the perimeter players receive the ball can they dribble and try to score. Or perimeter players once they receive the ball must shoot from the perimeter?

Thanks

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Hi Lorenzo,

I like to just have the players run a motion offense and try to score.

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I like this drill as it forces defenders to make quick team decisions for both onball and help defense. As such, its good practice for zone defense as well as man to man. Thanks for sharing the drill!

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We do this starting with 4 defenders and 5 offensive players. When the offense scores or the defense gets the ball they push it the other way and the last man that touched the ball on offense drops off making it 4 on 4. After they score or defense rebounds they pass it up the floor again going 5 on 4.

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This is good information you're getting out there.

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Will be sure to use this

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I'm a new youth coach. What do you mean when you say that the same defensive player cannot guard two passes in a row? Does this mean they cannot guard the same person two times in a row? Thanks!

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That means.... D player covers a player after ball is passed, when that player passes to another player, he does not cover that player.

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Here is how I interpret the comment. Coach passed he ball into Off 2 (first pass). Off 2 has the ball with Def 1 guarding him. If Off 2 passes to Off 1 then Def 1 can not guard Off 1. Of course, he would not because you would not want Def 3 to leave his player who has the ball. So Def 1 (who was guarding Off 2) may stay on his check and Def 2 (guarding Off 4) should go to guard Off 3 who is now one pass away. Again, how I interpret the comment is that a defender guarding the ball should not always follow the pass and guard the new player with the ball. I think the key item is if you are guarding an Off player without the ball who gets the ball you do not leave them to guard someone else, always guard the ball first and others will recover to pick up players one pass away. :)

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