What does weak side mean in basketball

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First Known Use of weak side , in the meaning defined at sense 1. Learn More About weak side. Time Traveler for weak side The first known use of weak side was in See more words from the same year. Style: MLA. Sorry to nitpick your reply. Thanks for answering. On the double, the help defender takes middle away for several reasons: - that's the angle he's coming from and easiest for him to take away - the person the help defender left is now open, so we don't want the post turning and seeing that open player - many post player like scoring by making or starting with a move to the baseline You are correct, the post defender could get pinned if he doesn't move his feet on the flight of the ball.

The player guarding the post, needs to be taught to move feet on flight of ball to get baseline position on the catch. We practice so the offensive post player is sandwiched on the catch. Defenders need to anticipate. It's something we work at and get good at It's incredibly effective if taught properly.

Okay one more thing: Let's assume the ball is at the wing area. In this case are you 3 quarter fronting from the high side? If the ball gets passed to the corner are you 3 quarter fronting from the baseline side? If so, would you have your post defender try to go over or under to get to that position? Thanks again.

What is your personal preference on defending one pass away? I've taught the closed stance and have noticed we get beat too much and have nobody available to help. I've stressed it and done a bunch of shell drill etc. I'm a HS boys varsity coach and start three sophomores so that may be part of the problem. Most of my guys have mostly played zone defense in the past. Do you recommend maybe trying the wolf pack style? We do not play with a shot clock so that does concern me some.

Thanks for any advice. Then can learn this and do quite well with it Now if you inherited a bunch of players that have played a lot of zone, it can take longer to teach them how to play man defense.

Some kids never get it and never break those bad habits they learned at the youth level Sometimes they just have to sit on the bench or you have certain players always use an open stance and your high IQ players deny situationally. To teach how to plug gaps and deny, we play 3v3, 4v4, and 5v5 shell drill and some live half court. With shell, we instruct players to drive on almost every catch defense can't steal and offense can't score. We repeatedly tell defenders "hip to help" so they plug the gap and help in a way so they can still see the person they are guarding and recover with a good close out on the kick pass.

Then move to 3v3 live. I like 3v3 live because you can really emphasize the drive and focus on a small number of players getting them do it the right way. Then add 4v4 and then 5v5. If you were to play with an open stance and allow perimeter passes as opposed to a closed stance and deny perimeter passes would you influence the ball middle as opposed to influencing the ball baseline since you have better help from one pass away?

It seems like traditionally coaches in man force baseline but I've studied Pack Line where they defend perimeter passes by allowing them in an open stance and it's non negotiable you CAN'T give up baseline!

It would still seem to me like it would be fine if the ball handler went either way since you should still have help established with wall defenders that could rotate so I'm struggling to understand why Pack coaches are hell bent on NEVER getting beat baseline. I've also heard it mentioned that how you defend in the post should influence which way your perimeter players force the ball.

It seems as if all pack coaches three quarter front and some of them will full front if the ball gets below FT line. If you were a coach that forced baseline would you then full front or half front from the baseline side? I do understand you want to guard your yard and never get beat in a straight line as there's nothing a defense can do to defend that. Putting in the Pack Line with my team this year and just trying to put everything together. Thanks for the help. As a coach, I stopped saying force middle or force baseline.

I don't want my players to have the mentality that they're going to get beat anywhere. I also teach butt to basket as I want my players to just focus on stopping the player. If you're going to force a certain direction, how about force to the corner, sideline, or half court?

That's the direction that you want players to go. As for the post, at the youth and high school level, I've had more success just going to a full front. If I have a great shot blocker, maybe I'd change that, but I never have. What you're saying about playing on the baseline side makes sense. However, I've only taught players to defend from the baseline side when the post player is in the mid to high post. Additionally, the position of the post player might also determine this.

If they're below the 2nd hash, you might want to be on the top side. That way, the post player isn't pushed too far out of help and an entry pass doesn't result in an easy basket for the post player. Being on the top side and forcing the post player and the perimeter player towards the baseline can be helpful too. That way, you can use the backboard to create bad scoring angles for them.

It might be something you need to test out and see what works best for you. I've seen coaches have success using all three methods defending in the post. A couple other questions: 1. Defending ball screens. We covered this in practice a couple nights ago. My reasoning is I don't think a lot of teams we play can come the ball screen, rise up and hit the threes. I'd rather take away penetration. The problem we ran into We just went 2 on 2 with no help in the lane.

The roll man scored a lot of layups. We weren't able to hedge AND recover quickly enough. Is this to be expected with no help in the lane? I've seen where coaches JAM the ball screen if going underneath and don't allow the screen man to roll, while the teammate has time to go underneath.

Is this how you would defend if going underneath or just something I need to experiment with? I probably know the answer here but do you teach the same way to defend the post in all of your defenses? IE: man or zone defending the post the same way to create consistency? I do believe in only running defenses and getting really good at them. How do you teach a defender to leave their player and come from behind to trap or steal ball from ball handler. How do you teach boxing out to the guy that is 2 or more passes away?

Do you teach them to go back out to the 3 point line to "find their man" and box them out? Or should they keep their position and try to watch their man as their man attacks the basket?

My players are having a hard time boxing out on the far side because they are so far from their man due to being in help position Thanks for any thoughts you might have!. We teach them to go find their man on the perimeter and make contact As a result, players standing on the weak half are usually left open, allowing them to cut towards the basket for an easy layup or receive a pass from behind the three-point line for a wide open shot attempt.

The most effective way to defend the opposing offense when a clear strong and wide side of the court has been established is to 'trap' the ball handler. This involves shading the inside hip of the dribbler, thus preventing the player from attacking the middle of the court and forcing them to move towards the corner of the court. Once offensive players realize they are pinned in the corner and dangerously close to stepping out of bounds , they are likely to panic and make errant cross-court passes that can be easily intercepted by a nearby defender.

Contrary to popular belief, the strong and weak sides of the court do not remain constant. Instead, they tend to change with each offensive possession.