Structures, Strategies and Compositions

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Structures, Strategies and Compositions

• Lesson 5

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Before we start...

• Homework model answer
• Explain how you adapted your strategy?
• I had to adapt my strategy to improve it. I did
  this by developing 3 options for the point guard
  during the fast break. Initially he had to pass
  to the forward to score. This became predictable
  to the opposition. Now the PG can drive in and
  score himself, he can pass to the forward as
  before or he can pass to the Centre who has
  overlapped him in the right lane. This means we
  now have a scoring option from each lane in the
  fast break.
• Why did this adaptation make the strategy more
  effective?
• This made our strategy more effective as we now
  had 3 different options to score with on the fast
  break. This made our strategy less predictable
  and our opponents found it harder to defend
  against. We scored more baskets using this
  strategy as we could now use the different
  options and use the strategy more often.
• Task- read your partners homework response.
• Compare it to the model above.
• If it is perfect, give it a green face. If it
  needs some improvement , give it a yellow face
  and if it is a weak response give it a red face.
• Now pass it back and see if you agree with your
  partners response.

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Today we will...

• Observe and evaluate our performance of the Fast
  Break in a game situation.
• Give a detailed description of how we gathered
  focused data on our Fast Break.
• Learn why the method we used to gather data was
  appropriate.
• Highlight strengths and weaknesses in our Fast
  Break attack.

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How did we gather data on the Fast Break?

• Videoed ourselves playing a 10 minute game.
• Completed an observation schedule whilst
  replaying the video.
• The observation schedule broke the attack down
  into small parts.
• Parts - Rebound, outlet pass, dribbles down the
  middle, pass, lay-up.

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How did we gather data on the Fast Break? (cont.)

• Every time a Fast Break was attempted we filled
  in the observation schedule by placing a tick
  beside parts of the attack that were successful.
• If a part of the attack was unsuccessful we
  placed a cross next to it and wrote a comment to
  say why it was unsuccessful.
• If we missed something on the video we rewound
  the tape and watched it again.

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Why was this method appropriate?

• Videoing our performance let us watch over the
  performance as many times as we wanted. This
  made our data gathering more accurate.
• Writing a comment gave us specific feedback on
  why the attack broke down. This allow us to
  design specific practices to improve our
  weaknesses.
• Video and observation schedule are permanent
  records of our performance that can be looked at
  again.

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Strengths...

• Was your Fast Break successful?
• What areas were more successful than others?

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Weaknesses...

• Was your Fast Break unsuccessful?
• When did your attack break down?
• Why did your attack break down? (look at the
  comments made)

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Homework

• Homework due
• What is the difference between general and
  focused data?
• How did you collect focused data on your
  performance?
• What can you tell about your teams strengths and
  weaknesses in your SSC?