Breakdown of Houston's Elite Defense 

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Imagine the selling you have to do to get your players to buy in to playing that relentless for 40 minutes. The credit to Houston is finding the players willing to be tireless on applying this type of defense. Thank you for sharing.

Great video. Their stick hand discipline is high level.

These videos are precious because it's really rare to find someone this good at explaining basketball! I'm a highschool italian ball player and these types of breakdowns really seperate me from the rest 💪

On ball pressure triangulation . A dribble pickup results in a bellyup and an arms up mirror the ball deflection . They also seal sideline . Chin series discourages the seal and lifts their weakside help.

Go Coogs! Thanks for giving recognition to this great Cougars team and hardworking student athletes that deserve this recognition.

Great breakdown! And I agree 100%- the most important key on defense is simply being able to guard the ball.

thank you for these videos! love the focus on the college game, i feel like it’s a lot more relatable and there’s more variation in schemes. i also love the player development videos for my own game 😁 wishing you nothing but success and looking forward to more videos!

Another great video as usual. We could feel the love and admiration that you have for the game. And I am eternally grateful that you choose to share some of it with us. I'm looking forward to this channel making it big.

This is a great video! The detail about them using high hands is definitely something I will emphasize a lot more.

Excellent breakdown! I’m a Coog fan so I knew some of the defensive strategy but I really learned from the “how teams beat them” part at the end. Going to use this to teach the defense!

Could you make a video that goes over terminology or something that can help out my teammates who can't communicate very well on defense? Thanks for your hard work on these videos they are great!

Very smart, technigual analysis game, my thanks to such a wise coach. Wanna more this content, best wishes

Great video! You should do a breakdown of Mississippi State’s defense. They have a very similar style

These videos are truly helpful i didn't realize college ball could help that much for improvement, can you make a video of how to study film?

Houston can still adjust to any offense if they figure out their main plan

I love defense! Most guards get rattled by an aggressive blitz, even as you have shown at the D1 level. I wonder why that is, but whatever the defense principles are- Having the right personnel will always make the difference. Not every team is capable of playing this way. But when you can... sheesh this is GOLD. great video!

9:27 Hey that's a "circle under" from your video about scoring in the post! lol I'm learning!

Someday iwill be Great in Basketball. More work to do!

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If you have enough time of course, can you make a breakdown video on how Mcneese state is having success under will wade? They’re 18-2 having won 13 straight games.

Houston is solid but definitely can improve. Defense is all about ball pressure and player positioning. 1:31 #55 catches and places the ball over his head. This is one of the weakest positions an offensive player can be in. His body is in an unathletic position/off-balanced position with the ball over his head. Therefore, #13 on Houston needs to attack this while using the sideline and baseline as extra defenders. On the weakside of the court, #1 needs to be in "pistol position" w/ his back to the baseline. See ball and man. That reversal pass should be a steal! 1:33 #23 is all the way over on the left block providing weakside help. Why? Once the ball is reversed he has to cover a long distance on the closeout. He should split the lane, back to the baseline and in "pistol position". Bottom line...#55 should have never been allowed to make that effortless reversal pass to begin with or it should have been stolen by #1. The lack of ball pressure and poor player positioning leads to an wide open catch and shoot three-point attempt. The offensive player simply missed a shot. A shot that he shouldn't have got in the first place...

Wow, how are high hands not a fundamental principle taught on every team...