PETE NEWELL: ONLY ONE WAY TO PLAY DEFENSE

You start with the fact that there’s only one way to play defense:  Shuffle your feet, knees bent, hands up.  That is the correct defensive posture – although you’d never know it watching some players today.  Any other way is wrong.  The inside hand should be in the shooter’s face to disconcert him.  The other arm extends almost parallel to the floor to deflect passes.  The player shuffles because that allows him to slide with the man he’s guarding.  Cross your feet, you might lose your balance.

-Pete Newell (from "A Good Man: The Pete Newell Story" by Bruce Jenkins