Defending Combination

| 1 Coach K Basketball Highway X1 denies the wing-entry pass from coach to O1.
Coach can dribble penetrate (X1 helps and recovers ) and/or shoot (X1 boxes out O1) at any time during the series. |

| 2 X1 helps and recovers as coach dribble penetrates (X1 does not help "up"). |

| 3 Coach calls "clear" and dribbles towards the wing. O1 basket cuts then clears to the weakside wing. X1 defends the cut, then gets in a helpside position in the lane.
Option - coach passes to O1, who passes back for a give and go. |

| 4 Coach skip passes to O1, X1 closes out and forces baseline. |

| 5 O1 passes back to coach, X1 returns to a help position.
Option - coach dribble penetrates.
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| 6 X1 bumps and denies O1 the ball on a flash cut to the middle.
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| 7 O1 then posts up and X1 defends from the top or front.
Option - coach dribbles to the corner, X1 switches from (top to) front to bottom on O1.
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