How to beat A Diamond And 1 Defense
How To Beat The Diamond and 1 Basketball Press Defense
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hello basketball coaches in basketball
players my name is Alan from Al's
basketball training and today I'm going
to talk to you about how you can beat
the 1 2 1 1 diamond press break or press
defense now from there the Raptors used
the diamond press a little while ago and
they were extremely successful they came
back from a 30 point deficit to win the
game which is insane it was their
biggest comeback ever and you can do
this as well with that press however if
you're the team that's ahead and another
team is running a 1 to 1 one you're
gonna want to know this these presses
are these press breaks and you also want
to know basically how to beat it very
simply I'm gonna give you the kill zone
as well so let's get down to the
clipboard let's check this out
ok so the one thing that the Raptors did
really well was to cut off the kill zone
however the other team that they were
playing it did hit the kill zone a few
times they just did not where they were
not able to get the pass out of it so
basically the kill zone in a 1 to 1 one
is right here now the reason why that's
the kill zone is let's say the ball gets
into that kill zone that is essentially
all four of these players zone which
means that one two or even three of
those players or maybe even up to four
of those players if they make a mistake
could collapse on to the player for in
which case leaves many many players open
so that's why it's a kill zone it's also
a great area to now get that ball pivot
and look down court because obviously
player 1 is going to be coming down on
to you because they don't want you to
dribbling the ball up the middle of the
court
so now you've basically got the corners
open you can Eve you even have the
middle open as well and if you've got
another player who's coming towards the
middle he now is drawing player 5 up and
you can have a two or a three on one
situation so that's just a quick example
on how you can beat the diamond press
extremely quickly and extremely easily
and at the pro level I'm surprised that
team was unable to do so so
one of the quick first plays that you
can run the first one is player one can
go over towards this corner player two
can attack the baseline and then if the
ball is on this side the player on this
side is able to now attack the middle of
the key so he wants to get that ball
roughly around the perimeter so
basically it's gonna look like this
player one is going to go down here
player two is going to go down here
that's now flattening out the zone
towards the baseline and that's allowing
player one to get down to get player
five that ball the other thing this does
really well on is the fact that if
player one was to follow player five
down to cut off any kind of a pass to
him
we now have player four open along the
sidelines and we can go and very easily
get a two on one or a three on one or
even a three on two situation that you
could be very successful on and that's
just a very simple play that you can run
and that you can instruct your team on
doing because most of the time I can
almost guarantee you most of the time
your simple press break is in this
formation anyways so you can say player
on the same size the ball goes towards
the corner player on the opposite side
goes towards the baseline player on the
far side cuts towards the perimeter
player four stays where he is because
we're either gonna be passing to either
player five or to player 4 we're not
looking at players went into it first
those are the two players we're looking
at first and this is an extremely simple
plate to run you can even then add in
extras so if you're a very advanced team
you tend to go up against a diamond
press all the time you can even run a
little bit of an extra instead of it
being just a simple pop down you can run
across so a cross down player five
attacks again same play but a little bit
of a different start just to just to
confuse the other team just a bit now
another play that you can run is what I
call splits where you have players one
and two right here and they're gonna
split off they're going to be going same
motion as before except this time we're
going to be having players four and five
do some
thing just a bit different so now player
3 is going to be still looking at these
players down field or down court down
field Wow down court and player 4 is
going to be attacking the perimeter and
player 5 is going to be crossing the
court he's going to be running over
towards this side this way if player 4
was to get that ball and player one was
to collapse on him with player 5
crossing the court that could give the
ability to pass the player 5 and play
afford to attack the right side so that
now even though they're forwards if
they're able to handle the ball even
just a little bit you could have a
two-on-one situation quite quickly I
hope that these tactics and these plays
help your team beat the diamond press
and I'm hoping that the other NBA teams
don't watch this video because I am a
huge Toronto Raptors fan anyways I'll
see you guys again later on today for
the second video of the day
