Basketball Defense Tips | How To Have Lock Down Defense

If you want to be a lock down defender in basketball, I talk about 4 different aspects you need in order to be great at defense. These four things in combination are going to work together to help fine tune your defense.

You never want to be the guy that your team has to worry about guarding someone. You can be good on offense, but be a liability because you can't guard anybody. Defense is very important, so make sure to work hard on these things I talk about.

The first thing I talk about that you need is strength. If you don't have strength on defense, and you are guarding a smart, stronger player then it makes it very easy for that player to decide how to are going to play against you. If that player is smart he will back you down in the post every possession. The second trait for being a great defender in basketball is being in shape. This one could be the most important, because even if you are strong enough if you don't have the lung capacity you are not going to last very long. The third thing is lateral quickness. Guarding someone that is a dribbler is going to cause you to have to be laterally quick or they are going to blow by you every time. Having good footwork and having that lateral quickness will help you to beat them to the spot they are trying to go. And the last be not least, it is a simple one but it is hard for most players to truly have it. Effort, you can have all three of the traits I just mentioned, but if you don't have effort then they usually don't even matter. The only problem with effort is you can't hardly teach it. Players kind of have to develop the will on their own, how bad do you want to win, how bad do you want to stop your defender from scoring. That sort of thing. I even see things pretty often in the NBA. Some of these players that are known as "bad defenders" have all of these things I just mentioned, so why are they bad defenders? Because they don't have enough effort on defense, they don't care enough about the defensive side of the ball.

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