Fine-tuning a Zone Offense can be a very challenging task for players and their coaches. Many coaches tend to focus on the pattern of executing a team offense against a zone, rather than breaking down the individual roles within the offense. The key to being able to break down a zone offense is making each movement within any offensive structure a possible scoring opening.
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Coach Riches Posted in Coaching Philosophy, General Basketball Coaching, Individual Defence, Individual Offence No Comments ↓ The Power Forward (PF) for a basketball team in the modern era of basketball holds down the interior offense of a team. With the decline of genuine Centers throughout the world of basketball, the PF has had to step up and become the primary scorer within a team’s offense within and around the keyway.
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Coach Riches Posted in General Basketball Coaching, Individual Defence, Individual Offence 1 Comment ↓ Probably the rarest of all basketball positions is a specialised Center (C). In basketball, the C brings together a number of specialised skills and attributes which make it one of the most dominate and unique positions in the sport. Because of the mixture of the physical and skill based requirements finding a C,
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Coach Riches Posted in Coaching Philosophy, Defensive Philosophy, General Basketball Coaching, Individual Defence, Individual Offence, Offensive Philosophy No Comments ↓ So you starting coaching a basketball team and you realise you don’t have one of the playing positions covered. As a coach this is always of concern when evaluating your teams starting line-up. This will also play a part in the overall selection of the team and your squads final make-up.
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