Playing smart with the ball in your hands
I can keep possession through fast, accurate passing and movement off the ball.
Playing smart with the ball in your hands
I can keep possession through fast, accurate passing and movement off the ball.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: creating space successfully requires running into wide or deep positions.
- Move: penetrating the defence is achieved by getting behind defenders both with and without the ball.
- Think: dispersal is about creating space by using width and depth, whereas penetration is getting behind the opposition.
- Feel: recognise and understand your own emotions/abilities and how they affect others requires self-awareness.
- Connect: communicating with team mates and signalling for the ball, enables effective passing and ball retention.
Keywords
Penetration - exploiting spaces between and behind the defenders, both with and without the ball
Screen - a blocking move by an attacking player to free up a teammate
Interception - stealing the ball from your opposition when it has been passed
Common misconception
Pupils attack territory down the middle of the court or pitch and it becomes crowded.
By using accurate passing and movement of the ball out wide, you draw defenders out and create more space to invade. Similarly, by moving the ball back and then forward again, you can create more space.
Equipment
a variety of basketballs, handballs, netballs and other bouncy balls, cones or floor markers, bibs
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
