Defending Screens (Annotated)

Annotated highlights from a FIBA teaching video:

Information must be "meaningful and relevant for the players." 
"Play to our strengths." Put your team in a position to succeed.
"Summary information in written...visual...and walking through on the floor." (This accommodates different learning styles.)
How many passes does a team need against us to make before they get a good shot?
Benchmark our team for scoring, rebounding, turnovers.
Our preparation should be able to measurably affect performance.

Four principal ways to defend screens: (Communication central to all...goal is to prevent advantage from the screen).
1. Offense can cut straight, back, curl, or flare. 
2. Screener defender calls technique (over, under, through, switch)...I like to have screener defender call "jam" which triggers "under" action...although for long-term I want bigger wing defenders to be able to switch onto the screener
3. Ball pressure is always central.
4. Against curl must get to the outside hip...
5. Screener defender critical for directing the action

6. Side pick-and-roll (emphasizes weak side help at the split)
7. Against PnR first discusses hard 'show' and over with recovery by screener defender (as readers here known NBA preferred defense on side PnR is 'ice')
8. Under (mild vulnerability to shooters)
9. Through (as screener defender steps off)
10.Switch 
11.Blitz (trapping the ball handler)...choice re: personnel involved...for example, teams are trapping Kyrie Irving a lot

This talk shines because it is consistent in emphasizing communication and understanding and allowing coaches at any level to choose their style. "Learning is a change in behavior due to an experience." 

We don't have to teach every technique, but our players need to execute the techniques we teach.