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Box-and-one defense is a type of defense used in basketball.The box-and-one defense is a hybrid between a man-to-man defense (in which each defensive player is responsible for marking a player on the other team) and a zone defense (in which each defensive player is responsible for guarding an area of the court).
Winning the psychological battle was as important to Jordan as the physical one. [3] Additionally, whoever Jordan was guarding on defense, Detroit would force that player to pass the basketball in order to make Jordan work extremely hard on both ends of the court, thus increasing his fatigue level and rendering him less effective. [4] [5]
1-3-1 defense/offense – Box-and-one defense – A combination defense in which four defenders play zone in a box formation and the fifth defender guards one player man-to-man. Continuity offense – pattern of movement, cuts, screens and passes that eventually leads back to the starting formation, and repeats. Flex offense –
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The main reasons a team would want to play man-to-man are: More aggressive than the zone defense. It also allows a team's best defender to stay on a player who has to be guarded at all times. In special cases teams can play a Box-and-one defense which is specifically designed to deny one specific enemy player by having a defender never leave their side so that th
Zone defense is a type of defensive system, used in team sports, which is the alternative to man-to-man defense; instead of each player guarding a corresponding player on the other team, each defensive player is given an area (a zone) to cover. A zone defense can be used in many sports where defensive players guard players on the other team.
Ben Wallace shot only 42% free throws over his career, the worst percentage in the history of the NBA among players with 1000 attempts. Bruce Bowen was also among the game's best defenders but among its worst free throw shooters. Because of their struggles at the free throw line, each man has at times become a target of the Hack-a-Shaq strategy.
Basketball is an arcade video game released in May 1979 by Atari, Inc. [2] It was the first basketball video game with a trackball for player movement and the first to use the angled side view which became a commonly used perspective in the basketball video games that followed.