To the average fan, John Calipari's teams win because of their powerful offensive system. The truth is that Calipari's teams rely on defensive pressure and disruption to create scoring opportunities. The ultimate goal of Calipari's defense is to create a faster game without giving up lay-ups.

This instructional basketball DVD presents drills, from 1-on-1 to 5-on-5, that Calipari uses to build his defensive pressure from the ground up.

Learn how to incorporate the lunge, early help, and close outs to assemble a disruptive defense. Using the shell drill, Calipari shows you how the post double down forces turnovers and bad shots by the offense. He puts players through game like intensity drills to prove their defensive effectiveness. Through this pressure defense, every offensive system can be guarded including the flex offense and the motion offense.

65 minutes. 2009.

Winning every possession is the goal of the defense-minded Lon Kruger. He unpacks his defensive transition package with full court drills and shows how to communicate assignments on the fly. Using practice drills, Kruger teaches you how to work on eliminating dribble penetration, deny the passing lane, and trap the post player. He also shares drills on recovering from double teams in the post. Kruger demonstrates techniques on how to defend cuts, screens and scoring post players. An extensive lesson on defending ball screens will solidify your defense and limit dribble penetration and pick and pop shots. In addition, his multi-purpose shell drill allows for coverage of any offensive strategy or play. Kruger's instruction can drastically improve your team's ability to dominate the defensive end of the floor.

63 minutes. 2009.

Produced at the 2008 Fresno Clinic

Highly successful coach Dave Odom presents a defensive package to fortify the perimeter, lane and basket area. Stopping penetration to the basket is the backbone of this half court defense. Starting with the "heels on the line" philosophy, Odom builds an entire defense that has proven successful at the Division I level. He reveals specific teaching tips for on-ball, one pass away and two passes away defenses that will cut down the driving lanes for the offense. Five dominant offensive movements, including the UCLA cut and on ball screens, are eliminated with this stingy half court defense. Using players in 5-on-5 play, Odom points out each strength and deficiency within the defense. Odom promotes a defensive system that is bent on being solid and not giving up penetration. By utilizing this defense your team can eliminate rotation, mismatches and fouls on the defensive end.

73 minutes. 2008.
Produced at the 2008 Myrtle Beach Clinic

Hubie Brown's defensive system has been successful at the high school, college, ABA, and NBA levels. A limited number of drills are the key to intense, consistent defense according to Hubie. Keeping practice at 90 minutes allows for properly paced drills and a constant level of increased intensity. He demonstrates the jam and turn technique, which limits the offensive player's view and forces him to turn his shoulder. Drills include the Z drill, which promotes pressure man-to-man defense with proper technique; and the 2-man drill, which focuses on getting the ball into the post. Getting through screens is a difficult skill to perfect on defense. He teaches the shooting the gap technique to take scoring cuts away from good shooters. Teaching points on the close out are no middle, leg up & touch waist and contest the shot. Techniques for defending the back screen, red-white-blue, changing defenses and fronting the post are shown as well. As a bonus, Hubie also mixes in some late game offensive plays that are proven to win close games.

75 minutes. 2008.

The beginning of solid defensive transition starts with great communication. Coach Sampson uses even/odd situations to teach the defense to react and defend in disadvantage situations like 3-on-2, 4-on-3, and 5-on-4. Through the use of drills, Sampson does a detailed job of presenting his brand of stopping the opponent from scoring easy baskets in transition. Moving to special situations, Sampson believes scoring from the sideline is a crucial part of the game. He presents a number of plays to accomplish this important skill. The first play starts from a triple stack is best used when your team is down 2 points. Post read is the next play and puts pressure on the low post defender. This is a great low clock sideline out-of-bounds play. Others include the push play on the baseline, four across from the sideline and a baseline box play. He ends with three potent set plays. One Down, is a play that gets the ball to the post in a special situation, and Post Shake is a post isolation play. Show and Go is a creative set play that utilizes the slip screen to the basket.

74 minutes. 2007.