I'm pretty new to the game (this will be my third season) and I am looking to stay where I am at for a while. Last season playing zone frustrated me greatly because if I didn't play teams with good 3 point shooters very aggressively they would destroy me. Doing this however made me get dominated on the boards.

I want to switch to a man to man, I am wondering if there are any opinions from people more knowledgeable than me who would suggest another way of going about this or advice on how exactly to go about switching over.

I have 4 incoming freshman that all played m2m in high school and will have 5 seniors leaving next season so i feel this is as good a time as any to make a change.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Put 25 (some coaches say 20, but I say 25, makes the change happen faster) on m2m defense to up their IQ's. When the IQ's get to C/C+ range you can switch over your primary D-Fence to Man to Man.

To note, if you can play the freshman sparingly until then (which by the sounds of it with 5 SR's you could), I would. That way the 5 SR's can carry you to a few victories before the IQ's can carry over and you can switch defences.

But I would recommend switching all of your practice minutes into m2m D and then switching it over as your primary D once the IQ's reach C or C+.

Thanks salag, I shall try this

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