Situation- You just scored to go up 3 with 8 seconds to go. You have taken a time out, so they will get the ball on the baseline and have to go the length of the floor. What do you play defensively? Do you press? Do you change your defense? Do you foul or play it out?
Doug Swanson- Sherrard
Coming out of the time out we would set up one of our presses, usually a ¾ court 1-2-2 zone. We are letting them catch at the furthest possible spot on the floor. We are then trying to keep the ball on one side of the floor and get one trap and take away any passes allowing for a pass advancing the ball up the court. We are giving them the reversal pass.
After the reversal we are forcing them back out to the sideline when they try to advance the ball. Once they are looking to start attacking the basket we are looking to make a play on the ball and foul. By this time we are hoping there to be 2-3 seconds left on the clock.
If the other team is in the bonus, we know that they can only cut it to 1 if they make both Free Throws. If they try to miss a free throw, we are taking our chances that we can get the rebound. If not we are taking our chances with them making a tough rushed shot with little time left.
However, if the other team is not in the bonus, the ball will be taken out on the sideline. From here we are switching back to our man to man defense. We are putting one of our bigger athletic players on the ball making it difficult to throw the ball in. Our other players are matched up and switching screens along the 3 point line and not giving up an open 3 look. On the pass, we are pressuring them to drive to the basket and not give up a 3. We are fine fouling here too and playing out the scenario above. We are also ok with them getting a 2, just not a 3 in this situation
Bob Anderson- Williamsfield
Ryan Brown- Taylorville
I like to run a very conservative 3/4 court ball press and see if we can coax an extra pass sideways or backwards to kill another second or 2. Plus it keeps my bigs back to prevent a deep pass.
Do you press? More than likely but it depends if I feel the opponent is better at passing or head down speed dribbling. Whatever we can do to make sure the ball sees 5 defenders in front of it is your priority. Plus if you are good enough at defense to get a sideways or backwards pass to kill an extra second or 2, then that's ideal.
Do you change your defense? Likely.
Do you foul or play it out? We will 100% foul in the backcourt between 8-5 seconds left, especially with 1 foul to give. To foul or not foul under 5 seconds is not as easy as what basketball announcers and the analytics say it is. If we are undersized and aren't a good rebounding team, I really don't like to ask my team to get a defensive rebound on a free throw. That situation often turns into an all out scrum and referees rarely if ever call the offense for a push in the back. Challenging the players to play great aggressive defense for 5 seconds and get 1 more stop is best. And if your team happens to foul, then so be it.
But ideally, if you have some height and you trust the physicality of your rebounders on the lane line, absolutely you should foul up 3 and inside of 5 seconds.
Evan Massey- Galesburg
When the other team is lining up and the refs has the basketball, we want to match up and get up in a denial position. Our purpose is to show aggressive man to man defense. We want the offense to slide up closer to the inbounder (they will then have farther to go), and we hope they will put more players in the backcourt. We have the inbound defender in a centerfield position.
When the ref gets ready to give the ball to the inbounder. We have our defenders back off. We hope the offense will still catch the ball moving toward the ball and away from the basket, but we want to make sure that our defenders do not get beat so they will be 6-8 feet off their person.
When the ball is inbounded, we want the centerfield defender to be in a gap so the dribbler does not see openings. The defender wants to keep the ball in front of them, try to turn them and then sit on their strong hand so they have to make a shot or play going to their weak hand.
We never practiced fouling so we never tried to foul- just played it out.
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