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Learning to play Good defense
by Patrick Hoffman on 03/11/10 at 12:30 PM ET
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From good friend of the blog Rick Carpiniello at Rangers Report:
I’ve seen about 30 or so basketball games the last month as part of my, you know, real job. And something occurred to me between hoops games, while watching the Rangers last night.
If I were their coach, I’d take them to a basketball court and show them how to play a zone defense. How you keep the opponent with the rock on the outside, force him to take long shots. How you don’t go diving out at him, taking yourself completely out of position, trying to block a pass inside. If you defend inside, the ball stays outside. I’ve seen teams with very limited size and skill do this very effectively.
Now I know hockey’s a different animal, and defending the pass is much more difficult—it is a little disc, rather than a pumpkin, after all—but the same theory can apply. You give up the long, bad-angle shot, and let your goaltender have that, and defend/box out the opponent down low. Once you go sliding to ice, if the puck gets by you, your goalie is going to have a ton of problems.
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