Help and recover

Help & Recover is the help of the defender without a ball, with a penetration (usually dribble) or a threatening penetration to return (Recover) to the own man. The own man is temporarily released. The recovery is perhaps the most difficult because the own man is lost sight of and you almost always remain responsible for the own man.

The dribble penetration should be prevented as much as possible by the ball handler’s defender. But if it does get this far, then the dribble penetration should help the defender, who is closest to the man’s defender with the ball; he has to help plug the ball handler.

Help and recovery is a great way to prevent a switch. Finally, a switch works a mismatch (situation where a small defender gets a big attacker or a weak defender to defend a strong attacker) and we want to prevent that at all times.