Wil Rey: Ball Press

This press resource covers Wil Rey's Ball Press defense.  Coach Rey gives a number of great press concepts that allows teams to apply strong ball pressure while not giving up easy buckets.

Wil Rey Ball Press

Match Up Press

The match up press is another press that can give teams a number of difficulties.  There are a number of prominent coaches who use a variation of a match up press.  These would include Billy Donovan, Rick Pitino, and Shaka Smart.  This is something that I have been studying a lot this off-season.  Much like the run and jump, it will take some time to teach to the players, but once in place, I think it will be very beneficial.

Billy Donovan Press Build Up

Rick Pitino Press Notes From Assistant Coach

Rick Pitino Pressing System

Rick Pitino Press Defense

Shaka Smart Pressing Presentation

Shaka Smart VCU Havoc Press

2-1-2 Press

I feel that a great compliment to the 2-2-1 press is the 2-1-2 press.  We often will run this after a free throw situation.  We always put our guards in the lane when we are shooting a free throw.  This allows us to get into our full court pressure immediately.  Some coaches like to keep their bigs in, but we tracked figured that the number of offensive rebounds we actually got off of free throw situations did not outweigh the benefit of being able to get into our pressure defense immediately.

The 2-1-2 is not really that much different that the 2-1-2 in my opinion and we are able to run the same trapping schemes out of it.  We simply put our best combo defender in the middle of the defense.  This play needs to be athletic, but more importantly, a really good decision maker as to when to trap and when to stay home or even fake trap.

I hope that these 2-1-2 resources provide some good ideas as to what you can do with the talents and skill sets of your players.

Vance Downs 50 Press

Crowly County 2-1-2 Press