An off-ball screen is between two players in which neither player has the ball in their hands and one player blocks the other player. The purpose of an off-ball screen is to free a player to be alone, sometimes the player who uses the screen is not always the player
The ball screen defense has to be as well trained as the offense. The defense of the ball screen and its attack is intertwined so that there is good defense it is important to have a good attack. It is on this parameter that the defense of the ball screen
The ball screen is undoubtedly the most used offensive move in all levels of basketball. This movement usually appears at the beginning of a play, at the end of the play, or as a sequence/continuity of a set play. As the level of play progresses, offensive and defensive solutions will become more collective
The game of basketball has been increasing fast and intense, and a major “fault” of this is the bet on the fast break. Mike D ‘ Antoni in the 2004-05 season “designed” an attack called “7 seconds or less” that led to a record 62 wins and just 20 losses in the regular NBA
The basketball game that is practiced today, is increasingly intense which forces decision making to be faster. Decision making is the skill in which a player reads an offensive or defensive situation and takes action. For example, the player decides to attack the direct lock, if the defense decides to
The rebound is a fundamental part of the game in the same way as the shooting, the pass, the dribble, the footwork. However, the rebound won or lost can have a huge impact on the game, as a rebound won is a sign of a new possession and ball. And who doesn’t
Does a tall player have to be a post player? Or can it be a short player? There is a lot of the stigma that a tall player is a post player. To be successful as a post player, height contributed a lot to that. However, it is useless to be very tall
The game of basketball is a game of spaces, from training to the highest level, all coaches talk about the correct occupation of spaces. Very well, but what is it to occupy the spaces correctly? What does that benefit my team? Space in basketball is finding a position on the
One of the topics I most like to address is basketball defense for being a simple topic, and with well-defined principles. That mythical Michael Jordan sentence “offense wins games, defense wins championships” is the basis on which almost all athletes learn to defend. However, the sentence makes more sense because
In a previous article that I had written about shooting, I had divided the shooting into three types: finishing in layups, jump shot, or stopped. In this article, I will focus on finishing at the rim-layups. The second most common throw in basketball is the layup, that typical layup that
The game of basketball has to be taught progressively. It is absolutely impossible to teach a player to play 1v1 if he does not know how to dribble, stop, and finish. That is why it is said that fundamentals are important – of course, they are – they are the
We coach, we constantly talk to our team about basketball practice and how our team’s practice. We say repeatedly the mythical phrase “we play as we train”, but many times the athletes listen, but do not fully understand what we mean by that sentence because practice for them is different
When it comes to basketball fundamentals, it is more about dribbling, passing, shooting. However, there is a fundamental that, if not well acquired, makes it impossible for the previous ones to be used, namely, footwork. Well-acquired footwork prevents players from committing unnecessary violations, at a stage of knowing the game
Nowadays one of the best-known roles of the coach is undoubtedly basketball analysis of games. In Portugal, there are few training coaches (U14 and U16) that I know who analyze their own games. Maybe because they do not have time or because they do not know what to analyze, or because they don’t
There is no point in having players who can dribble, pass, and are very good at team tactics if they do not know how to make a basketball shooting. We are all aware of the number of sentences of people from the basketball hall of fame that talk about shooting
Who did not like to watch the San Antonio Spurs passing in 2014? If no doubt they were the best teams playing in the last years, and the big difference between them and the other ones was the passing ability. This team shows how to be possible winning basketball games
Dribbling the ball is the action that makes the players drive to the basket. However, are countless players that can not handle the ball. Before presenting a guide of dills to improve ball handling of your players, is important to have some notions about the use of ball handling. Ball
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