Defence
Shell drill
The shell drill is a structured defensive set-up primarily used on man-on-man defence in which off-ball defenders will support the on-ball defender. The shell drill uses many skills, these include; reading offensive plays to know what position to be in on the defensive, adjusting to plays and being able to react fast if ‘help’ is needed or having a player cutting through the keyway. The positions include:
- On-ball defence
- In the passing lane/one pass away
- 2 passes away
- 3 passes away
- Help/split line
When the ball is at the top of the 3-point line the person defending them (purple highlighter) is on-ball defence, this defender plays hard man-on-man knowing that the players behind have help defence. The next defenders/players are either in the passing lane or one pass away (yellow highlighter). This means that the offensive team only has to execute one pass before the ball reaches that same off-ball defender’s assignment and then becomes on-ball defence by them. And now the last defenders are 2 passes away from the ball (pink highlighter), these defenders are ‘help’ defenders in this situation. In this play, we have no one for split-line defence and/or 3 passes away, so the 2 passes-away defenders must play their job. (Play 1)
Now, this situation is a bit different to the one above. The ball is now in the left corner, player one is the player doing on-ball defence. Player 2 is one pass away/in the passing lane. By being in the passing lane you may be able to read the pass and intercept it. Player 3 is 2 passes away by being there they can jump over and help if they come through the top of the keyway. Player 4 is 3 passes away and is ready to jump up to the top players in case player 2 or 3 needs to help on defence. And finally, player 5 is split line/help defence, split line is the invisible line that goes straight through the middle of the court. Player 5 is now the last option that will have the help defence.
Offence video
In these clips are some offensive plays
During this 2v2 I took the shot as I had no player on me and it was lazy defence
VID20221026094600.mp4 (sharepoint.com)
During this play I went to screen but instead I popped out and took the open shot
VID20221026094452.mp4 (sharepoint.com)
Defence video
In this video I’m playing help defence but also on my player even though the ball was kicked to my side I stayed in the same place because the other team wasn’t playing 5 out
VID20221019094955.mp4 (sharepoint.com)
Physicality and skills
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | |
| week 1 | completed | completed | Basketball game after school | not completed |
| week 2 | not completed | completed | Basketball game after school | completed |
| week 3 | not completed | not completed | Basketball game after school | completed |
| week 4 | completed | completed | Basketball game after school | not completed |
| week 5 | not completed | completed | Basketball game after school | completed |
| week 6 | completed | not completed | Basketball game after school | not completed |
| week 7 | not completed | completed | Basketball game after school | completed |
Strengths and weaknesses
My strengths are my right hand. this is because I can shoot, pass, and dribble strongly with my right hand. another strength was rebounding, not shown on the videos above but during a game, I thrive in getting rebounds. A weakness of mine is my left hand, not being so strong on my left hand is a major weakness because most defenders want to push the opponent’s left so then it’s an easy steal.
scoring
- write players names from both teams in the tables
- as the game plays you cross the numbers of when someone scores and in the blank boxes on the side you write the number of the person who scored
- every time someone gets a foul you cross the box off next to their name
- throughout the game you fill in the team fouls and at half time and at the end of the game you add the scores underneath the scores