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Defensive Responsibilities
The various members of the defense have different responsibilities, and these
change depending on the attack. The principles described in the table below
apply to a middle back defense.
This can be summed up in a few simple rules:
 | Left front or right front - block the attacker in front of you, block
middle if there is time, otherwise drop off the net and cover
| Middle front - block everything, cover the outside hitters when they are
attacking
| Left back and right back - dig cross-court attacks and cover behind the
blockers when the ball is attacked in front of you
| Middle back - cover the back line (stay out of the shadow of the block) |
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Some typical problems:
| Single blocks or poor double blocks - makes it much harder on the defense.
| Left (right) side blockers not backing off the net when the ball is hit on
the right (left) side - now there are only 3 diggers.
| Middle back not staying deep enough - middle back sees a lot of empty
floor in front of him and is tempted to cheat forward. Now it's difficult to
get the deep, hard hits that are his primary responsibility.
| Left and right back cheating towards middle - again, they see a big hole
in the middle. Now they can't play the hard cross-court hits that are their
primary responsibility.
| Left and right back playing too deep - they think that the middle back
can't cover the entire back line. While they're probably right, they won't
be able to dig sharp cross-court hits. |
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