Defensive SchemeColumbia
is a team that plays exclusively man to man defense. They attempt
to use their quickness and athletic ability to cause problems for the
ball handler. They also have big men who are physical and try to
use their strength to their advantage when fighting for post position.
On the Ball DefenseColumbia plays pressure
defense on perimeter ball handlers. They take away the dribbler's
space and make him uncomfortable. If ball handlers are sloppy
with the ball or dribble too high, Columbia's guards will try to steal
the ball. Because of this, it is important to keep your dribble
low to the ground and your guard hand out. If you are
trapped or double teamed on the perimeter, it is important to remember
to use the pull back dribble in order to escpae the defense and give
your teamates time to get open. Stay patient and find an open
teamate.
Columbia's perimeter defenders also do a good job of
tipping passes thrown by the man that they are guarding. Becuase
of this, you must utilize pass fakes and not telegraph your passes.
This will lead to tipped passes and steals, which will result in
easy baskets for the Eagles' offense.
Help DefenseColumbia
does not play great help defense. The help defenders are not in
gaps like our pack line defense. However, they do not deny passes
to other perimeter players either. They do a good job of
sprinting to help when a perimeter defender gets beat off the dribble,
and all players are willing to take a charge. Because of this, it
is likely that once you beat the initial line of defense off of the
dribble and get it lane it is important to jump stop as to aviod
getting a charge. It will be difficult to skip the ball against
this defense, you will need to penetrate the lane in order to pass the
ball to a teamate on the other side of the court.
Post DefenseThey
three-quarter front all posts ups from the top side. Their bigs
are strong and physical, so they will try to push you out of position.
Stay low and hold the defender off with your off arm.
Because they playy three-quarters on the top side, we have some
built in advantages. The first is we can enter the ball to the
post on the baseline side. If our post player holds off their
defender, they should be able to use a drop step for a lay up.
Another advantage that we can have is that if we drive the ball
baseline from the perimeter, the post defense help will be out of
position (at least momentarially). This can lead to open pull up
jumpers and lay ups by our guards from the wing position.
Guarding Off the Ball ScreensColumbia's
perimeter defenders chase all off ball screens. This includes pin
downs, staggereds, double staggerds, side by side doubles, and zippers.
They also go over the top of flare screens. The man
guarding the screener jams the screener in order to let the man
guarding the defender work. Because of the way that they guard
off the ball screens, it would benefit all movers to curl cut off of
screens. This will allow an easier pass from teamates that will
lead to better scoring chances.Guarding Ball ScreensAs
stated earlier, the Eagles' perimeter defenders pressure the ball.
Because of the way that they pressure the ball, it makes sense
for them to go over the top of ball screens, which they do. To
allow the defender to go over the top, the man defending the screener
will hedge the ball screen and making the ball handler widen out when
using the screen. This will enable our screener to be more open
when rolling to the basket. For this to happen, our screeners
must set a solid screen and roll to the basket as soon as the ball
handler clears the screen. Hesitating to roll will give the
defender time to recover and take away our advantage. |
