Basic Offense Against Man For Man Defense
The pattern of attack is set up so that two, three, or four men figure in the play. You may set up drills to practice this before you put the entire play together. This I do on half court, and rotate the inside, and outside men, so that no matter what position they find themselves in as they come down the floor, they are ready for the offense to begin. This inter-changing of personnel has other merit too, in that, sometimes you will have one of your bigger men outside, defensed by a man who is not familiar with defensing an outside man. This often enables the boy to get by him, and score more easily. Also, the same thing applies to the smaller boy who has gone inside to replace the big man. Sometimes the defensive man assigned to him is unfamiliar with defensing an inside man so this works to your advantage also.
You may set up your drill as follows:
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