Product Description

Tom Izzo’s Defensive and Rebounding Skills course consists of a game-tested set of drills that can be used to enhance the fundamentals and techniques that are essential elements of great defensive play. Ideal for coaches and athletes at all competitive levels, this coaching video uses on-court player demonstrations to help explain and illustrate a series of instructional tools for developing basic defensive skills for basketball.

Highlights include:

• Defensive mindset
• Jumping to the ball
• Defending cuts
• Elbow and block coverage
• Defending screen-the-screener plays
• Defending screen-and-roll plays
• Transition defense
• Developmental drills

Coach Credentials:

NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (2000)
6 NCAA Regional Championships – Final Four (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010)
7 Big 10 Championships (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2012)
4 Big 10 Tournament Championships (1999, 2000, 2012, 2014)

Accomplishments
8 Elite Eight (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2014)
12 Sweet Sixteens (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)
17 NCAA Tournament bids (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)

Awards
1 AP National Coach of the Year (1998)
1 Henry Iba Coach of the Year  (1998)
3 Big Ten Coach of the Year (1998, 2009, 2012)

Tom Izzo is the head men’s basketball coach at Michigan State University, a position he assumed in 1995. In his exceptional career at the helm of the Spartans, he has firmly established Michigan State as one of the most prominent programs in the country.