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Hey Coach,
How do you feel about playing a box and 1 for defense when you want to guard a really good player? We played a team earlier in the season with a good player and we face guarded the whole game, but I feel like I should mix it up the second game we play them. I was thinking of doing a man to man, but also a box and 1 during the game. Thanks for your time in advance coach.
Wyatt
When a team has a strong player this is the way to go for sure. How did the box and 1 work last time? The other coach will adjust and prepare for this for sure. I always like to face guard the best player when we are in our man to man defense. I have my best defender stay locked on their best player and not help off at all. The others will over help early and not close out hard on their assignments.
We run a drill called star stopper in practice where we practice the half Court Defense. We want the defense to get 5 stops and the offense is trying to score twice. This is how we work on the face guarding with one defender and over helping with the others.
The first time we played them we just face guarded their best player. They would send double screens and try to go 5 out to spread out our Man to Man Defense. We ended up winning the game, but we should have won by double digits. Only issue we ran into was not working over on screens with a good shooter. We definitely worked on that in practice after that game. I assume other coach will make adjustments on this game and I thought a box and 1 will help with those adjustments. Appreciate your thoughts coach and I will run that, "Star Stopper," drill in practice tomorrow morning.