Darrin Horn: Core Drills to Build Your Defense

Darrin Horn brings to light four big questions every coach needs to answer about his or her defense. The answer to these questions will shape your team's identity, what you work on in practice, and the drills you choose to build your defense.

Horn demonstrates and teaches the eight essential drills he uses in practice to create and instill his team's defensive identity. These drills emphasize stopping the ball in conversion, communicating every defensive move, protecting the basket, having active hands, stopping straight line passes and splits in traps, and developing toughness on defense.

Each drill works on a specific area of defense including conversion defense, trapping and getting a stop. Horn's Fundamental Defense Drill provides an effective review of key defensive fundamentals in one drill saving you practice time.

In each drill, Horn points out the purpose of the drill, how it relates to his overall defensive philosophy and provides teaching and coaching points for easy implementation with your team.

This basketball video is an excellent tool that will help you develop a strong defensive identity, improve your spread and responsiveness against a variety of offenses, and reinforce an aggressive mentality within your program.

61 minutes. 2009.

Produced at the Spring 2009 Myrtle Bead (SC) clinic.