Defense wins games,” is a quote you will often hear around most coaching circles of any sport. At the University of Kentucky, coach John Calipari’s teams that play the best defense usually win the most games.
The idea is simple: play as a team, prevent the other team from scoring, create turnovers, and those turnovers turn into easy transition shots. The hard part is getting teams to buy into the team vision to play selfless and trust that if they focus on all the intangibles, the scoring will come and at the end of the game the scoreboard will reflect their efforts.