The fundamentals of offensive basketball can be listed by all coaches. High school players can list them. They have been enumerated and well defined for a long period of time. If coaches were asked to list the fundamentals of defense, they would all give different answers. Defensive fundamentals are rather vague and nebulous. Required skills vary from team to team and from coach to coach. Surely it is time we accepted a given list of fundamentals so that they may be defined and taught in a more precise and exact manner.

We are going to list eight defensive fundamentals. They are not necessarily the only ones and this is not necessarily the only way defensive fundamentals could be listed. Still, we are going to approach them in a positive manner because no accepted list of defensive fundamentals can be found. If each basketball coach begins to think about breaking defensive play down into the various fundamentals, we will certainly come up with an accepted set of fundamentals more quickly.

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