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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Packline = difficult/impossible to teach kids.

What you want to avoid is kids getting used to trapping in AAU when no fouls are called, then trying to play like that in high school - scratching and clawing in the traps. Doesn't work at higher levels. [b]Trying to tip passes won't either. That exposes the defender to basket drive[/b][/quote]

I'm the dad who posted above.  Do you mean an on-ball defender? I can see if the on-ball defender bites on a pass fake before a perimeter player has dribbled, then he's vulnerable to a drive.

[b]But what was talking about is something that my son has recently started doing after much urging by his trainer.  He's tall but more importantly very long --- an inch taller than me with 7 inch higher vertical reach, and he's finally getting a hand up to deny passes when they come anywhere near him when he's playing off-ball defense, [/b]whether they are to his man or a perimeter player is trying to thread the needle and pass inside.  It doesn't take him out of position -- he's just moving a hand, but due to his length he's constantly surprising guys by deflecting their passes to a teammate or out of bounds.  That's the kind of very basic defensive aggressiveness that so many kids don't seem to think about, and whatever coaches can do to teach it seems like a good thing to me. [/quote]

It's refreshing to hear that people are using trainers to teach defensive fundamentals. What you normally see is trainers teaching eight year olds to do step back threes or bragging about the grind they put players thru. If I was searching Coachup for a trainer I would definitely consider anyone who said that he/she strongly emphasized defense in workouts. That's probably a recipe for a failed training business however.[/quote]

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