I have put these notes from the video for my own use, but over time I have found that people also liked reading them so I thought in the interest of sharing I would take what's in my note book and put it on here.
We all fell in love with Loyola Chicago during the NCAA Tournament run, and Hoop Vision did a great breakdown X & O (at the bottom of this blog) of their defence which when I looked at this video and some game film was an interesting hybrid of what is popular at the moment, mixed with a bit of ''old school''
Loyola Chicago base defence is really a hybrid of No Middle, but also looking at match-ups and where they can ''prevent'' first rather than a hard and fast rule.
A good example of this is they like to switch on ball screens, and at first look you would say they are always switching, to point they have a mantra around switching.
TALK IT, TOUCH IT, SWITCH IT, DENY IT
Yet knowing their key forward would be isolated against switching onto smaller guards they would play drop coverage.
Other communication notes from Loyola Chicago are:
''Switch Up'' on the ball, putting pressure during the switching process rather than being passive
'' Give a Verbal'' talk on everything, all things are spoken about on defence nothing is silent
'' Reach for the lights'' always contest shots, force tough twos
As well as drop coverage for slow moving forwards vs guards in on ball screens they know their scout and will go under screens against poor shooting guards, gambling with the poor shooting 3 over a driving/foul/score situation.
Never cover off corner 3's strong and weakside.
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