Youth Man: Closeout
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Youth Man: Closeout
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1 at the top against five-out. X1 on the ball; everyone else is a step off his man, in the gap or on the help line, because this defense concedes the catch and contests the shot. Why that trade: a contested catch-and-shoot is a worse shot than a drive against a defender who is standing next to his man.
1 passes to 2. X2 closes out from the gap: sprint, chop, inside hand high, butt down, under control. Why the hand is high before the feet stop: the shot is the first thing the catch can become, and the hand takes it away while the feet are still arriving.
2 passes to 4 in the corner. X4 closes out short, with no baseline, X2 drops to the gap. Why the corner closeout is the hardest: the shooter is a step from the baseline, so the closeout has to take away the shot and the baseline drive with the same step.
4 throws it back to 2. X2 closes out again, X4 drops into the gap. Why the defense concedes the pass back out: it is going away from the rim, and the closeout arrives with it.
2 skips the ball across to 3 on the left wing. X3 closes out from the help line: a long sprint, then the chop, hand high. X2 drops to the help line, X5 to the gap on the corner. Why the skip is the closeout the defense worries about: the help line is the farthest a defender ever is from his man, and the skip is the pass that finds him there.
3 shot-fakes and drives the middle against the closeout. X3 is under control, chops, and slides with him, X1 stunts from the gap, X5 drops to the rim. Why the chop saved him: a defender who sprinted all the way would have flown past the fake; the chopped feet let him turn the drive into the help.
3 picks up and kicks it to 5 in the left corner. X5 closes out short with no baseline, X3 drops into the gap, X1 and the rest recover. Why the defense concedes this kick-out: it is a pass back outside to a corner, and the closeout is a short one.
5 throws it back to 3 as 3 relocates to the wing. X3 closes out, X5 drops into the gap. Why every catch gets a closeout: the sag concedes the catch, and a conceded catch with no closeout is an open shot, which is the one thing this defense was built not to give.
5 passes to 3 on the wing. X3 closes out: sprint, chop, hand high. Why the repetition is the teaching point: a closeout is a habit, and a habit is only a habit if it happens on the seventh pass of the possession as well as the first.
3 swings it to 1 at the top. X1 closes out, X3 and X2 drop into the gap. Why the ball at the top is the defense's friend: it is the farthest catch from the rim, and the closeout there is the shortest.
1 passes to 2 with the clock gone and X2 closes out one last time, hand high. Contained. Why the offense never got a clean look: it swung and skipped the ball all possession, and every catch was met by a defender arriving under control with a hand up.
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