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Cutting: Isolating defenders by Brummie

When cutting, if you're able to manage your defender then you're more likely to get open.

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Also referred to as “putting a defender on an island”, the principle here is to cut in such a way that your defender cannot possibly cover the space that you’re in; this will then allow a cutter to react to their defender’s positioning, and to just cut away from the defender. Imagine that A is handling in a 1-6 vertical stack as seen in Fig. 1. Two cutters, B and C, simultaneously cut, providing two options. A threatens to throw […]

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