About this episode

Coach Steve Allen discusses strategies for taking away an opponent's best option in basketball.

We discuss strategy and game planning in this episode with Coach Steve Allen. Coach shares how he plans and takes away his opponent's best option. Coach shares his defensive scheme, how he goes about scouting and the way he practices to take away what a team wants to do on offense. We also discuss defensive principles and how to stat and track if the game plan was a success. If you love defense and strategy then this is the episode for you!

People in this episode

Host: Mike Hernandez

Guest: Coach Steve Allen

Topics covered

• defensive strategy
• game planning
• opponent analysis
• scouting
• defensive principles

Keywords

• defense
• strategy
• basketball
• scouting
• game plan
• defensive scheme
• practice

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