One of the most fundamental concepts of playing defense is playing percentages.
Lets take a look at arguably the best player in the nba Lebron James' shot chart.
If you look at where most of his shot makes come from, and where he is the most efficient, that will be in the painted area. If you think about it, its much easier to make a layup, then a mid-range shot. It makes sense to want to do most of your damage closer to the basket. As lebron ranges out his percentages go down, as it is harder to make a shot the further away you go from the basket.
Lebron james shot pretty well from three in this particular year shooting 37.9 percent. but that is still a dramatic difference from his 72.1 percent from 5 feet in.
The average 3 point percentage in the nba in the 2014-2015 season was 34.91 percent. rougly 1/3rd of shots taken were made.
The point of all these statistics is to show that its better to allow a player to shoot a long range shot then to get around the basket area.
So first tip is to try to defend your man by enticing him to take long range shots.
one of the reasons its so effective is. usually an offensive player falls in love with the ability to create his own shot. people love to shoot pullups, stepbacks, fadeaways, turn arounds, just because they are shots that are creatable and harder to guard and maybe even look cooler.
in the picture above it says that lebrons weakness is his turn around fadeaway.
mainly because he shoots it so often in the post because its unguardable and he makes it alot of the time. but as you watch its a terrible shot. even I do it. sometimes ill do a step back when i maybe should have went into the post or tried to force my way to the basket.a player whos famous for this is jr smith. who takes an array of stepbacks and contested jumpshots.
these shots may be easier to get off but are low percentage shots.
Heres a clip of what recently retired nba player shane battier has to say about defending kobe bryant
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