Then why is it that people never practice there defense? You always see them practicing their shooting, dribbling, or passing, but never defense. Some people say it is because they are too flashy to practice defense, but I say it is because individual defensive basketball drills are out there. All of them like MACLIN jerseys

. That is what you will now find below to make you into the player your coach will always put in to shut down the opposing team's best player.

Have you heard that "Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships?" I hope so, because it is true. You look at all teams and it holds water. This is because offense might not show up because shots sometimes do not go in, but defense does. Defense is always there for you no matter what if you put the hard work in.

Bounding- This drill trains you to bound on defense and not just run everywhere. Start this drill out on one foot and then jump as far as you can in a random direction an another direction landing on your other foot. Keep on doing this, but only do it for a short period of time. You are wanting to train your muscles to be explosive so go hard for a short amount of time.

Lines-Jump side to side and back and forth over the half court line or any line with one foot at a time and then both feet at a time. Go as fast as you can. Everyone of them likes to wear Cunningham jerseys

. You want little quick jumps. Dots- In this drills, make 5 dots. Have 4 in a square and 1 in the middle so that they will look like an x. Do every combo jumping dot to dot on them. Do this with each foot or both feet.

Close Out- Start under the hoop and imagine a person at the three point line. Run at the imaginary person and shuffle or chop step when you get close with your but down in an athletic stance and hands up being ready for the shot or drive. Do not go through the motions while doing this, or you will be sloppy during the game. Ball Drill- Shuffle along the wall while passing it off the wall at the same time back to yourself. Remember in all these drills the most important thing is to stay in your defensive stance at all times and that it is about technique, not how fast you go.

Shuffle- Use the push slide step technique, not overlapping your feet. (The push slid step technique is push with one leg; slide the other one next to it, and the step.) Go back and forth across the lane staying in the defensive stance. While doing this, you must have one hand inches from the ground and one hand up. The one hand up is to be in the players in Baskett jerseys

face in game ready to block/distract shot while the low hand is the pesky hand preventing the crossover and therefore forcing the playing you are guarding one direction and always making him uncomfortable.