Frontcourt Corner Coverage

Originally Posted by johnny d

I would suggest you put yourself at a 45 degree angle, rather than a 90 degree angle. The bold and underlined part should never happen. This has been advocated against at every college camp I have attended. I will take a peek at the shooter in the corner. I am giving up that look once the ball has left his hand cleanly. That still gives me plenty of time to get any strong side rebound action. I will miss any contact on the shooter after the ball is gone and before he lands, but I will protect him until the ball is released. After that, I will rely on the T to get the other stuff. I have to agree with BNR and JRut, two college officials, on this play. All supervisors and clinicians are going to want you to get the contact on the shooter before the rebounding play. JRut and I have gone to a camp here in Chicago run by a D1 official who has worked the championship game multiple times. Every year he stresses the importance of the L helping the T protect the shooter deep in the corner.

I debated using the word back and should have left it out. It's more my shoulder/side. If I am halfway between close down and the 3 point line and I am 45 degrees to each play then I am facing parallel the endline. If the corner is 90 degrees to my right, then I am primarily facing the low block, which is what I see every official on tv doing.

I wish the mechanics manual would come out and explicitly state that the Lead can peek at the corner three.