Defense & Rebounding

Help Defense

nounbasketball term

Leaving or shading away from an assignment to stop a more immediate scoring threat.

Good help arrives at the right time and includes a recovery plan. Overhelping creates open threes; refusing to help allows easy drives.

Used in a sentence

“Show help at the rim, then recover to the shooter.”

Also written help

Community slang changes over time and can mean different things in different game editions, modes and groups.

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