After spending a few minutes watching some of our recent games, I notice a couple of things about our defense that we need to become better about recognizing. When an opponent is able to freely bring the ball downcourt, or score, we need to stop looking at it as "it wasn't my man, I had my man covered." Instead, we need to look at it as "that was Covenant's man, that was everyone's man that just scored."
Our primary philosophy on defense is: STOP THE BALL.
Regardless of where the ball is, our goal is to STOP THE BALL.
A few of you are playing oustanding help & recover defense. (Heather, Hilliary, Chelsea, Hannah) Others are playing great help-defense, but are to slow to recover to your man or you lose your man altogether.
The second thing I notice is that a few of you continue to play your man rather than STOPPING THE BALL. You can't run side-by-side with your man down the court and expect to stop the ball. You have to get ahead of her and force her into doing something else...picking up her dribble, forcing her into help-defense, etc.
Our ROVER on our opponents inbounds plays is standing 25 feet away from her man and just watching the play rather than being part of the play. The Rover's responsibility is to help double-team the ball OR to see a screen developing and cover the open receiver - neither of which seems to be happening.
We should take great pride in our ability to pressure the offense into doing things they aren't very comfortable doing (rushing shots, rushing passes, etc.).
Execution + Effort = Excellence.
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