Joanne P. McCallie: The Adjustable Match-up Defense

with Joanne P. McCallie,
Michigan State University Head Women's Basketball Coach,
2005 NCAA National Runner-up

Joanne McCallie has taken the Michigan State Women's Basketball Program from 10 wins in the '00-'01 season to a runner-up finish in the 2005 NCAA National Championship. She has accomplished this amazing turn-around by stressing the fundamentals of basketball and defense. In an energetic, lecture-style setting, Coach McCallie shows you the essentials of her effective, Adjustable Match-Up Defense. She shares how to run it, how to practice it, when to use it, and why to use it. Her Match-Up Defense isn't a man-to-man defense and it isn't a traditional zone defense, it is a hybrid of multiple defenses that has taken coach McCallie to the NCAA tournament three years in a row! McCallie has three different sets of rules for her defense: pass rules, dribble rules, and high-post rules. She shares these rules with you along with drills to practice the Match-Up Defense. In addition, Coach McCallie shows you the basic basketball fundamentals that have helped her succeed at every level.

57 minutes. 2005.

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