This 1-on-1 – Best Defender Challenge rewards strong defensive performance. The offensive player attacks, and if the defender gets a stop (no basket), they stay on. The goal is to crown the “Best Defender” after a series of challenges. It promotes pride in defense, footwork discipline, and mental toughness.
Many times we tend not to reward the defense. In this exercise,reward the defenders scoring rebounds and theft.
Now yes you will like the defender!
Objectives
- Enhance the value of the Defense.
- To inculcate the habit of competing also in Defense.
- Become accustomed to the change of role from attack to defense.
- Streamline decision making in the decision making in the completions.
Contents
- Boat
- Step Zero
- Stops
- Outputs
- Shot
- Entrance to basket
- Changes of hand
- Change of pace
- Feints
- The defense of player with ball
- Displacement defensive
- Speed of reaction
Recommended age
- From 8 years onwards (Minibasket: categories, benjamin and fry).
Number of players
- From 3 players forward for the year in mid-court.
- From 6 players on to the exercise on the court as a whole.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 4-5 minutes, or until a Defender who reach a certain number of defenses for success (between 7 and 12 and depending on the number of players).
- Of course, you must bring the account.
Equipment and facilities
- In mid-court, a minimum of 2 balls (the first two attackers).
- On the court as a whole, at least 4 balls (the first two attackers for each row).
- In both cases, if there are balls enough, a ball for each attacking player in the row.
Initial layout and description
A defender in the header of each half court. The attackers out one by one from the central circle.
It leaves an attacker to each media pitch to play 1×1. Once that has been resolved:
- if there has been a basket, there is a change of roles;
- and if the defender has recovered the ball, return it to the attacker who will return to the middle row of the field (changes from row if the exercise takes place on the court as a whole). Then, the next attacker will come out to play a new 1×1.
Each time a defender gets the ball, ‘she sings,’ the number of defenses successful achieved so far at the couple that goes to defend to the next attacker who has already pulled out of the row.
The winner is the first to reach the number of defenses successful set previously.
Variants
- Must end with entry to the basket by one side given.
- Must end by pulling from a specific place (below the ring, outside the area or from the three-point line).
- Must finish in a certain number of boats.
- Earn the defender that performs a certain number of defenses consecutive successful.
- Recover the ball before shooting it scores 3 points (interesting variant in the case of playing to the target score is above 10).
Note: all variants are combinable.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
