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Basketball playbook
Line Defense
Type:
Half court zone defense
Name Usage
Technical name:
Line Defense
Common name:
Line Defense
Play Development Credit
Designed 1st by:
Coach Walter Meanwell United Kingdom
Year play 1st used:
1911
Play 1st used by:
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Country:
United States
Play History
Walter E. "Doc" Meanwell, a native of England, developed what he called "scientific basketball".[1]
Doc Meanwell became the basketball coach in University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1911 and went on to develop Line Defense,[2] which won the Wisconsin Badgers 8 championships in 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1921, 1923, 1924, and 1929.[3]
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Line defense is a strategy used in basketball. It is referred to as the "line defense" because of its formation on the court, which consists of two lines of defense. Three players at the front of the defense (at the half-court center line) and two players behind (between the center line and the team's own key). The line was the first zone concept to be used in basketball.[4] The line defense was developed to counter the fast break plays that were being developed, and adopted, at the time. The line defense was the catalyst of the future 3-2 zone defense.
^Own the Zone - Executing & Attacking Zone Defenses, Don Casey & Ralph Pim, 2008, Pg.19
^Own the Zone - Executing & Attacking Zone Defenses, Don Casey & Ralph Pim, 2008, Pg.16 & 17
^The University of Wisconsin Collection
^Coach Don Casey & Ralph Pim, Own the Zone - Executing & attacking the zone defense, New York: McGraw Hill, 2008, pg. 16
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