Introduction:

For the first semester of the 2022 year one of my electives is Specialist basketball. In this we focus on improving our basketball skills and learning new strategies. This is a reflection of what we have done so far in the semester. I will talk about the things that we do in this subject as well what we learn.

Training:

I have training my teams every Wednesday after school from 3.30 until 5.00. At the start of our training we review our game that passed and we discuss how we could improve on those things. We spend the first part of our training implementing different ways of doing things to improve on the mistakes that we made in our game. For the rest of  training with my team we focus on things for the whole team including plays and other things that we can implement into our games. Out of training I spend lots of my time improving my shooting and my dribbling by just practicing them a lot.

Offensive Strategies:

In this subject we learnt lots of things to help us improve. Improving in offense was achieved by doing lots of shooting drills and dribbling drills. We also had some things that we looked over in more detail to improve on and that we could use in our games. One of the main things that we focused on was our spacing and creating space. By doing this we were a lot better at opening up spaces on the court for teammates or yourself to run into. I think this improved my offense a lot and my ability to help my teammates.

Defensive Strategies:

we learnt lots about defense to improve on our game. We spend lots of time in lessons looking at little things like the way we should be standing and how we should be moving when we are defending someone. We also spent time looking at a formation defense called shell defense. This is a great way to defend as a team as it allows lots of help defense to teammates but at the same time covers everyone on the court. This helped everyone understand lots of more thing about helping as well as your movement on and off the ball.