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[QUOTE="007, post: 1316799, member: 393"]
Again, I am going to respectfully disagree from a coaching perspective. Teaching man to man defense is much more complex than teaching zone, and it's not even close. The "basics" you listed in your post might be ok for youth leagues, but man defense at the college level is taught as a [B]system[/B] of team defense. And most teams run multiple systems. There are literally hundreds of positioning (both on ball and, even more complex, [B]weakside[/B] positioning), rotations, and recovery principles. There are also entire systems of half court team defense designed to force and keep offenses to the sideline or baseline; systems to defend the paint; principles for ball pressure; denial of entry passes; fronting and 3/4 fronting of post players; principles to defend on ball screens with or without hedging; systems to defend cutters, dribble penetration, off ball screens, and pick and rolls; if a teams traps, there are principles for the rotations and recovery that are dependent on the positioning of the other offensive players - unlike in a zone where the rotations and recoveries are dependent on the area of the court you are responsible for. And on and on and on...
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