Defensive Decision Making

As coaches, we talk about decision making on the offensive end a lot.  Why not the defensive end?  Of course it is important of having a defensive 'system'.  A way of doing thigs.  Just like it is important to have an offensive system.  But we allow and encourage decision making within our system on offence, but not so much on defence.  Lets change that and encourgae our players to be thinkers on defence, not just 'do-ers'. You can teach defensive decision making all the way down to youth teams – it takes time, teaching and trust.

In this presentation I show numerous examples of where players can make decisions on the defensive end and the steps coaches can take to teach them. Included in this content is also the video with my slides from the presentation (Video 1) - so you can watch them along at your own speed.