Structures, Strategies and Compositions

Structures, Strategies and Compositions Today we will... • Peer mark and evaluate homework • Develop/improve response

Homework Task • Due Friday 11th March • Higher – Intermediate 2 Choose an activity and a structure, strategy or composition you have used. Describe how you planned your practiceof this SSC to ensure you were prepared to apply or adaptit as performance circumstances required. (6) During or after a description of the progressive practices • Discuss how the variations allowed you to score from each lane- adding width to your attack • Discuss how speed helped you get quickly beyond defenders • Discuss how your practices allowed you to practice the movements but also that they became progressively more demanding on your decision making skills and your skills within Basketball as they became more game like

Homework Task Due Friday 11th March Intermediate 1 1. Describe the practices you used to develop your fast break. (3) 2. Describe how you altered/adapted your fast break. (2) Question 1 Describe how you developed options 1-3 Question 2 Describe how you added in option 4 to stop the defence backing off and pull them away from the key early, before switching the ball to the other side.

Peer mark and evaluate homework • Swap jotter with someone of the same level. • Read their answer and then write an evaluation. • You should refer back to the structure from last week.

Structure • Part Two • During or after a description of the progressive practices • Discuss how the variations allowed you to score from each lane- adding width to your attack • Discuss how speed helped you get quickly beyond defenders • Discuss how your practices allowed you to practice the movements but also that they became progressively more demanding on your decision making skills and your skills within Basketball as they became more game like Part One • 3 man weave • 2 man fast break practice • Fast Break option 1 unopposed • Fast break option 2 unopposed • Fast break option 3 unopposed • Each option • 1 passive defender • 2 passive defenders • Each option • 1 active defender • 2 active defenders • 3 active defenders • Continuous fast break drill • Conditioned Games

Structure of Answer • Name activity • Name SSC • Due to the speed of the fast break it s important to make each player familiar with his/her role in the strategy. • It is also important that the team are familiar with how to adapt and change the strategy as the game progresses • This is important when an opposition team work to disrupt a strategy we are using • Initially we began with a 3 man weave to ensure each player was comfortable passing, communicating, running, filling the lanes wide and using the lay-up shot at speed. As each of these are important for our team to perform the fast break successfully. • From our individual physical and skill related attributes, strengths and weaknesses we allocated positions so that each player was fulfilling the role most suited to them.

Structure of Answer • Our training program looked to develop our fast break from the development stage to being able to use it in a game. • After our teacher had detailed the format of the fast break strategy which had 3 scoring options, we used unopposed practice to ensure that each player was familiar with the movements of the 3 options, their role and the skills within that role. • We increased the pace of this gradually as we experienced more success • This was quickly followed by using 1 passive and then 2 passive defenders to put some pressure on us and to demonstrate what our actions did to the movement of the defenders. • Then we used a 3 v1 practice with an active defender- who started at the top of their key and only became active when the outlet pass was made. • We progressed this to a 3v2 practice with active defenders who came in from half way, through the centre circle, when the outlet had been made.

Structure of Answer • This encouraged us to use the width of the court by filling the lanes to create space in the middle and use speed in attack to try and get beyond the defenders before they became active. This contributed a lot to improving our decision making skills, of which fast break to use, depending on the situation. • This level of practice was very game like and a lot of our actions were becoming instinctive and automatic. • Before progressing to the game, we used the continuous fast break practice which involved 3 attackers and 2 defenders at any one time but 15 people were involved. This was very game like as it included the concept of turning defense into attack by initiating the fast break and the defenders were instantly active. • As a drill which was very tiring, it was important for my team to maintain the quality of the movements, including the width of our attack, even when tiring as this would effect how easy it was to defend against us.

Structure of Answer • The final practice was a 5v5 conditioned game where we got more points for using the fast break. • All these practices made us familiar with roles we had to play and gradually became more demanding so our confidences improved as we experienced more success and the speed of our fast break increased. • However, the most important area of the practices was the familiarity of the variations. • The fast break can become very predictable. • Our variations ensured any of the three players who undertook the fast break could finish it by scoring. • Each of these players attacked from a different lane, ensuring we had three different points of attack. • This ensured that even if 2 defenders got back, my team were prepared and ready to adapt our strategy, using good decision making to score using the fast break.

Higher – Int 2Class task / Homework!!!!Due Wednesday 16th • Redo this answer after you have learned the structure. • Do not use your notes when completing it. Choose an activity and a structure, strategy or composition you have used. Describe how you planned your practice of this SSC to ensure you were prepared to apply or adapt it as performance circumstances required. (6)

Int 1Class task / Homework!!!!Due Wednesday 16th Name an activity and describe a SSC you used in it. Describe a weakness of your SSC Describe how you developed/adapted your SSC to overcome the identified weakness

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Structures, Strategies and Compositions