The answer to eliminating fronting defense

Easy · Mar 5, 2012

1. Get a perimeter player who can do PnR.
2. Get a PF who can hit from outside.

In summary, you need other offensive weapons to beat any scheme targeting one offensive player. That's actually pretty simple. Put the burden on the GM.

acsorelle4 · Mar 5, 2012

jopatmc said: ↑

As I was watching Lebron front Pau yesterday, I was reminded of all the frustration I felt watching all our opponents do this to Yao constantly. And the solution is so simple to me.

The perimeter ball handler/scorer should drive the ball right to the fronting defender.

One of several things winds up happening.

1. He compresses his defender against the fronting defender and uses the fronting defender and his big man as a screen to go right to the rim.

2. He beats his man off the dribble and forces the fronting defender to step out to defend the little 10 foot jumper, which creates a release for his big man for either an alley opp or the rebound putback.

3. If the front takes place in the paint and the guard is at the top of the court, just bang the durn ball off the glass hard to your big man for the layup.

The fronting defense in the NBA should be the absolute easiest defense to beat and beat good with layups/dunks and And 1 fouls. And it does not take very much practice to get good at it. These are NBA players with NBA skills. A couple practice sessions and repitioins and they should have it. It's an easy 2 points if they simply have it in their reportoire. Why aren't they doing it?
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A/k/a the pick and roll, which in theory should be simple to defend. Yet for some reason, in the NBA, we see it remains an effective offensive tool.

LCII · Mar 5, 2012

apollo33 said: ↑

It's because of the lack of fronting in general in the NBA

The thing is fronting while effective, is very tiring and can stack up lots of fouls. I felt like fronting Gasol for example is totally different from fronting Yao. Lakers were still able to run their offense through Kobe and Bynum and really wasn't all that bothered by Gasol getting neutralized. If anything the fronting gave Gasol better positioning for offensive rebounds.

The reason fronting worked so well against the Rockets was because we were too dependent on Yao on the low block. Without Yao, our whole offense bogged down to Artest being a r****d. Plus Portland had Oden and Pryzbilla that did nothing but taking turns muscling Yao on D and eating up fouls.

Team simply don't front these days because no center in the league today is worth wasting the energy and fouls on.
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Lol. Well put.

leebigez · Mar 5, 2012

jopatmc said: ↑

I'm offering an easy fix. Everyone else is saying it's too hard. But nobody is saying what's wrong with my fix.
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There needs to be certain variable for fronting to work. Great ball pressure and a stagnant offense are a couple. Notice shaq never got fronted? He was to big and athletic, plus the triangle is a motion offense. The knicks in 94 fronted dream with some success because of the derek harper ball pressure. Hakeem was just so good at pinning guys. The rockets bogged down a lot in the 4th because of the fronting and offensive stagnation. Its hard to front if you have guys who can get to the rim. Oh yeah, lebron is that great of a defender.

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