are individual defensive ratings taken into account when you play a pressing defense? Like, should you train the players in defense if you run an exclusive press defense?

Posted by CoachClairBe on 6/26/2016 2:48:00 PM (view original):
are individual defensive ratings taken into account when you play a pressing defense? Like, should you train the players in defense if you run an exclusive press defense?

The player's individual defensive rating definitely plays a role in the press -- the higher the defensive rating, the more steals that player will generate (speed, athleticism and defensive IQ also play key roles in this determination). Probably more importantly, however, is that a higher defensive rating will make the player less likely to foul (again with athleticism, speed and IQ playing roles in the overall calculation as well).

So, if Im understanding the question right, you will definitely want to devote individual practice time to defense and/or take it into account during recruiting.

yes defense is still very important to practice

defense is a combination of ath-spd-def and for big men sb.

certain defenses value certain traits more

like shotblocking is most valued in the zone and speed is the most valued in the press(causing turnovers). ath/def are valued highly in them all and the game highly rewards strong ath/def teams.

You always want to practice defense regardless of what defense you run especially based on a players potential(blue spend more time, red put the minimum time)

that goes for your training for individual players (in the 130 points and you allocate, say 12 points to the individual player in defense) and not the overall defense of press? Just trying to clarify.

Posted by CoachClairBe on 6/26/2016 3:03:00 PM (view original):
that goes for your training for individual players (in the 130 points and you allocate, say 12 points to the individual player in defense) and not the overall defense of press? Just trying to clarify.

Most coaches allocate between 20-25 minutes into TEAM offense and TEAM defense (so a total of 40-50 minutes of your 130 is in the team portion). The other 80-90 minutes get allocated to individual practice plans for each player.

Posted by CoachClairBe on 6/26/2016 3:03:00 PM (view original):
that goes for your training for individual players (in the 130 points and you allocate, say 12 points to the individual player in defense) and not the overall defense of press? Just trying to clarify.

As stated, you'll want 20-25 in the TEAM defense (which impacts IQ development).

For individual PLAYER practice plans, the amount you'll want to allocate will depend their remaining growth. Players in red are at/near their max and will grow very little over the course of the season...if they're an underclassman, it might be best to allocate 6-7 minutes (possibly even less), which won't create growth, but will prevent all but maybe a 1-point loss over the course of the season (and if you do lose a point, you can change the plan, jack it up by a few minutes until you recover the point and then lower once more).

On the other hand, if their defense rating is blue, indicating there's 21+ points of growth available in the category, then you might want 12-20 points in the category (depending on GPA and other attributes that need attention and practice time as well...) to facilitate rapid development and growth. Average (black) potential will, obviously, float somewhere between the two extremes because you want to encourage development during the season.

On average, I'd say Def is probably the No. 2 category where I spend practice minutes on the player plans (behind conditioning). Almost always so for post players since it develops both Def and SB abilities.