Team:_________________
Date: _________
Session Focus: Defensive Transition
Defensive transition is one of the most important concept to forming a successful team. D-trans
stops/slows down the oppositions fast breaks. There are 5 positions of D-trans: 1:Dog, 2: Safety, 3:
Middle, 4: Plugger, 5: Basket
Venue –
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- Transition D Warm Up - 5 mins
1. Sprint, turn & run backwards & 3 D slides
2. Trans D sprint to F/T & Deny wing pass
3. Trans D sprint to F/T & Close Out to Half Way & Slide to side line
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- 3 Lanes Titan Drill
Base footwork - Shot preparation – “hips down, hands up”
“SET, LOAD, RELEASE, lock elbow and snap wrist”
Left foot Right foot for Right Handers
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- 1 on 1 – Alley Drill (Dog) plus plugger – 7 mins
Turn 2 times & play live from ½ way & channel side
Spear hand/Deflection hand, one arm’s length away.
Keep out of red zone (key), contested jump shot with box-out
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- 2 on 2 – Plugger (No.4) & Dog (No.3) – 10 mins
Ball starts Out of bounds, Defence up on ball
Guard starts on F/T line – Defence behind.
Plugger force the pass towards sideline
Pass in play & plugger turns and SPRINTS behind the line of ball (just behind his teammate)
The pluggers job is to stop the dribbler going middle and help contain.
Defence hips to the ball.
Help D & BALL ME MAN concepts
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- 3 on 3 – Plugger & Dog & Safety – 10 mins
Ball starts with coach who puts ball in basket
1 then runs to safety & 6 runs lane
9 takes it out of bounds & 3 is plugger
7 Point Guard starts on F/T line – 2 Dog Defend behind
Pass in play & plugger gets to behind line of ball
Help D & BALL ME MAN concepts
If ball is passed to 6 then 3 & 2 sprint to behind the line of ball
Play 3 on 3
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- 5 v 5 D-trans – 10 mins
As soon as the shot goes up
2 sprint back to safety position
1 gets to free throw line
3, 4, & 5 form a triangle on the boards and attempt to get the offensive rebound or tip it back to 1
Regardless if it is a make or miss 4 man slows down the outlet pay.
5 man will then sprint ring to ring to release the 2
3 will get to half way and go to ball side – deny pass up the sideline (hips to the ball)
1 will be the dog on their ball handler
4 will sprint back behind the line of the ball (plugger) once outlet pass has been thrown.
If the pass gets thrown back to 4 then the plugger becomes dog, the dog becomes plugger, the safety will then
deny the pass up the sideline on the other side, the 3 will become split line (around half way) – all players,
excluding the dog, will have hips to the ball.
If ball does get advanced all players in front of the ball must spring back behind line of ball.
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For remainder of session play 5 on 5. Defense can guard however they like (unless you have implemented rules). Make
sure you implement D-Trans. If you would like to implement Basketball NSW Defensive Half Court rules then please refer
to Session Focus: Half Court Defensive Rules.