Unfortunately, I doubt that Assembly Hall's low camera angle will let me recognize the differences in Miller's positioning of players as shown in your drawing. I need the Sunday morning coach show big time.
It's really easy.
1. the guy guarding the ball should be arms length (or closer) from the ballhandler, while pressuring him. He doesn't need to worry about the player getting by him (as much) which allows him to overplay.. because ...
2. Everyone else goes into a pre-help position. Cheating towards the drive.
Compare the two charts. They don't have to rotate to the driver because they're already there. They instead have to rotate to the shooter and quickly without fouling. Helps to have quickness, length and wingspan. Like the players, we're recruiting.
It keeps teams from driving and making interior passes, while daring them to shoot the wing three. Which is why it's important to be able to close on 3pt shooters, which is why long quick players are desired at the 2,3,4,and 5.
You can't put two short armed 6 footers in this lineup, or slow plodding posts. It either causes a gap, or wide open threes. It's geared towards disrupting all the common dribble drive oriented offenses.
Of course it has situational options based on how others attack it, and the type of players etc ..
You can probably find youtube vids and coaching sites that will explain it in detail. I mean, this is the internet. Or ask one of the coaches on this board (boiler1987, or Bloom) to explain in better detail. Though they will probably overwhelm most with
detail. Coach speak is a whole other language.
I guess you could call it a man defense with some zone principles (not really but kinda) ...not an RMK type, it has different rules.
