basketball-defense Stories - The Only Colors
Executing the Trap & The Many Ways It Can Go Wrong
During a high school girls' holiday basketball tournament I watched just before the New Year, I saw a coach whose team was rapidly falling behind call a timeout and introduce a full court trapping scheme in the huddle. He spent the majority of his 60 second timeout diagramming where he wanted his...
MSU's defensive tendencies during the Tom Izzo era
A couple weeks ago, I promised you some long-term analysis of MSU's defensive tempo-free numbers. (I'm sure you've been jumping out of bed every morning and running to the computer to see if this post has been published yet.) As it turns out, there's a good reason I haven't yet spent the time to...








