Drilling your transition game. (Basketball).THE STEADY MIX of athletes we have at Thomas Dale Sir Thomas Dale (d. August 19, 1619) was a British naval commander and deputy-governor of the Virginia Colony in 1611 and from 1614 to 1616. Governor Dale is best remembered for the energy and the extreme rigour of his administration in Virginia, which established order and in allows us to play an up-tempo up-tem·po also up·tem·po n. pl. up-tem·pos A fast or lively tempo, as in jazz. adj. Having a fast or lively tempo: an up-tempo arrangement. style of basketball basketball, game played generally indoors by two opposing teams of five players each. Basketball was conceived in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA college in Springfield, Mass. that constantly enables us to pressure the defense and beat them to the basket basket filled with treats, representative of feast on Easter Sunday. [Folklore: Misc.] See : Easter . To do this, we have to teach our players to make good decisions in the transition from offense to defense. Our philosophy has always been to start playing defense the moment we lose possession of the ball. Whether it is a turn-over or a basket, the first few seconds in transition will make or break our team defense. To simulate simulate - simulation these game situations, we have developed the "5-on-5 Catch-Up catch-up n. 1. An approach or strategy intended to overcome a disadvantage or lead: The competition will be playing catch-up for the rest of the season. 2. Drill" shown in the diagrams. As you can see in Diag. 1, we utilize 10 players at a time: 5 on offense and 5 on defense, with the offense lined up at the baseline The horizontal line to which the bottoms of lowercase characters (without descenders) are aligned. See typeface. baseline - released version and the defense aligned opposite them at the foul-line extended. The coach initiates the drill by calling out a defensive player's name and throwing the ball to an offensive player. The defensive player called must run to the baseline, touch it, then turn and sprint back on defense, as shown in Diag. 1. Meanwhile, the offense takes off on a 5-4 fast break (Diag. 2) with the defense following them. Note: The four remaining defensive players must turn and run, not back-pedal back-pedal Verb [-pedalling, -pedalled] or US [-pedaling, -pedaled] to retract or modify a previous opinion or statement back-pedal vi ( , back on defense to match up with the offense. Points of emphasis: 1. The defense must make sure to communicate with one another, letting them know the specific match-ups (to avoid having two men covering one). 2. The defensive players should match up first with the offensive players that are in the best position to score on the fast break. 3. They should also communicate with the trailing defender to let him know whom to cover (Diag. 3). The drill continues until a turn-over or a point is scored. The teams will then reverse and come back down the floor. The offensive players are taught to get the ball back into the hands of the ball-handler to bring it back up the court. The offensive team must push the ball up ahead to the open man and sometimes may be forced to reverse the ball (Diag. 4). This drill has provided us with valuable teaching sessions on both offensive and defensive situations. It has enabled our transitional defense to handle the fast break more quickly, make better decisions in fast-break situations, increase our court awareness, and improve our conditioning. All of which has made our up-tempo style more formidable. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion