Defense is the key of success By Leandro Ginobili
Defense is the key of success By Leandro Ginobili
An old Basketball axiom says that the offensive wins the games and the defensive the championships. I don’t know the wise who said this, but he was so right. Everytime gets more the gravitation on this aspect of the game and seems to be the unbalanced factor for reaching out the final instances .
I had the opportunity to present some games on the Final Four of
For being in the ground, even more in a higher position, one could watch more clearly the different aspects of the game: defensive tactics, offensive coordinations, indications of the coachs , individual persecutions and all the nuances of a sport very rich in variants.
Beyond , the quality of the players, one could make a clear paralelism with the European Basketball, Players very well prepared on the physical aspect a great defensive vocation, having in clear that without it is practically impossible to get any big goal.
And Peñarol, the champion, was a clear example about this. With a strong team and not with many offensive variables , it made worth its power in the other side of the court, It received an average of 74 points in 3 games, with a supplementary included.
Before , here , in our places it was impossible to see. The argentine players bet everything to the offensive, adding that they didn’t work out their bodies as they do now, with some exceptions, that they have been helped by the nature mother and not by their conscious work out in the gym.
The globalization caused by the communications media development, has joined the distances, Now it is easier to see and know how the first world is training , coachs, trainers ,can be reached out by a click with the best information , and the possibility to travel and participate in the campus during the summer on the North hemisphere,
The majority of the basketball world ,has understood this, Also the NBA was changing, leaving aside the classic showtime for a game more like the FIBA style, with impressive defenses, who had created true dynasties within the competence : the Celtics of 80s , Pistons and Buls of 90s and Spurs in the new century ,
All the teams than more their offensive skills , have reached to make history from a solid defensive, that was the reason that get the top . What we can say about the times that are running, with the Celtics of 2008 (the best defense of the last decade, in my opinion) Lakers 2009 and the Cavs from nowdays , real masters when they haven’t the ball in their power,
The possession of the 10 best defenses of NBA are teams that are in positions to obtain the place in the post season, All is not a casuallity
If we cross the ocean , this tendency has a deepest meaning in the teams that has been dominating the European competetion , in the last decade were and are true strenghs , In general , is very difficult to find games that will score more than 100 points. Teams the size of CSKA,
Some other wise said that for being a good attacker it requires talent, good hands and a good night , but for defending well , only attitude, a good pair of legs, that don’t depend on the skills or if the player woke up good or bad in the morning of the game . There are no excuses for not doing well and seems that the world is understanding it .
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