{"id":12785,"date":"2015-06-12T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=12785"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:00:25","slug":"whats-the-objective-of-defense-in-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/whats-the-objective-of-defense-in-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the objective of defense in volleyball?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Previously, I introduced a debate related to set tightness<\/a>. That came out of an FIVB Outside Hitter seminar<\/a> I attended in 2015. It certainly generated some intense exchanges. What I want to talk about in this post is another idea Mark Lebedew<\/a> brought up during the seminar. It might change the way you think about some aspects of what you do with your team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark said the objective of defense is to score points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about that for a second. Chances are up to now you thought the objective of defense is to keep the opposition from scoring a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The distinction is important. Mark told the story of the USA men several years ago when they made a decision to use their libero in 6 rather than in 5 to get more digs. It worked. They got loads of digs. Unfortunately, they scored fewer points in the process. Presumably it was because they didn’t have the pipe\/bic available in the offense as effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s one way of looking at things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another is to consider defensive positioning at a player level. In this case it’s the difference between simply digging the ball and putting up a ball that produces a legitimate attack. There are certain positions a player can be in defensively which increase the likelihood of producing settable digs, even though they might reduce the overall number of digs made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does that change how you think about your defensive system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the real objective of defense in volleyball? It may not be what you think it is, which could impact the way you design your playing system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107,130,131,136,469],"class_list":["post-12785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-defense","tag-defensive-strategy","tag-digging","tag-volleyball-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}