Research On The Characteristics Of Application Of Defensive Skills And Tactics Of The NBA San Antonio Spurs

Modern basketball is more and more emphasis on balanced of offensive and defense, even pay more attention to defense. In the NBA, offensive can lead the team into the playoffs, but want to win a championship, must rely on the defensive. The SAN Antonio spurs won the NBA championship 5 times in 15 years, shows the importance of defense to compete for a championship. Since Tim Duncan joined the spurs on 97-98 season, he has helped the spurs 15 times get into the top 5 of the defensive efficiency.8 seasons since 2004-05, the spurs’defense efficiency 4 season in the top 3,4 seasons entering the league top 11.This article has carried on full study with the literature material method, expert interview method, Delphi method, video observation, mathematical statistics and logical analysis to the characteristics of skills and tactics of spurs defense, and get the following conclusions:1. In team aspect, the spurs coache and team is stable, tactics and style also maintain the stability and the defensive tactics characteristics also have no great changes happened.2. In defense of the skills, the spurs mainly prevent the player who without the ball to not get the ball;when defense the inside, the spurs mainly adopts the way which stand their back to stop them without interference;when defense the outside, the spurs mainly adopts the way of chase;when the outside players in the region of the outside region, the spurs always stand their front with positive interference; the spurs foul is less when defense the player without ball. To the players with the ball, spurs mainly uses the strong interference and the second strong interference way;the spurs mainly uses the conventional half-court man-to-man to defense dribble; the spurs personal individual breakthrough defensive ability is very strong;the spurs strategy to defense shooting mainly uses strong interference. In conventional indicators, the spurs steal ability is not very prominent, the defense is solid;the spurs strong interference effect is good;the spurs backcourt rebound rate is high; the spurs defense is not very aggressive.3. On the defensive tactics, when uses the defense basic cooperation, the spurs defense breakthrough will be balanced double-team,filling-in and delay;when defense center and uses cooperation, the spurs will uses filling-in,help defense and double-team;when defense pick-and-roll, the spurs mainly uses the way of exchange;when defense screen without the ball, the spurs mainly use squeeze through;when defense the outside player with the ball, the spurs mainly uses double-team. On the team defense tactics, when defense screen, rarely used rotate and filling-in;when defense the breakthrough and pass, the spurs will more use the rotate and filling-in;when defense the fast break, the spurs mainly adopts the way of whole team defense;the spurs mainly adopts half-court man-to-man defense tactics.