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OffenceAREASOFEMPHASISGUIDELINES FOR COACHESHere’s What Coaches AreSaying:“Team Success in competition dependsprimarily on both the individual players skilland team principles of play. How they playtogether, their style based on the individualquality of decision making and execution ofskill - for any coach this is the holly grail incoaching a team. It simply starts withindividual offence skill and continues with aclear understanding of ball and playermovement principles in a game. To achievethis we need to spend hours with playerslearning the individual skills throughrepetition but also through being consistentin our planning and reinforcement of ourkey team concepts and principles.”Warwick Cann, British BasketballNational Teams Director“Skilful players make the game easy andteam offence simple. We need both greatindividual skills built over time and keyunderstandings of our principles of play.”Chris Finch, 2012 GB Men’s coach“On offence at senior women’s level; youhave about 14 seconds to make your play.6 seconds is taken up in the backcourt andyou don’t want to wait till last 4 seconds toforce a shot .Which means you have about14 seconds to get your principles of teamplay functioning well.”Tom Maher, 2012 GB Women’s coachRecommendations For TheNational SystemIndividual Offence• The triple threat stance is the key to ouroffensive game and should constantlybe reinforced. Emphasis on this being adynamic ready position is essential toplayers having an attacking mentalityand coping with on-ball pressure.• The catch to shoot with correct leading,catching and pivoting technique intothe triple threat stance must be the keyfundamental individual skill.• Re-emphasis on the pivot and step as akey to individual offensive play. Playersmust be taught to utilise the pivot to passor attack off the dribble and to create anew ”line” to the basket or new releasepoint for a shot. The attack foot createsthe jab and shoot / drive options as wellas opening passing lines.• All players to master the use of theslash arm technique for better offence.• Greater emphasis on breakdown drills(3v3, 3v2, 4v4, 4v3 etc) to isolate andteach specific aspects of both team andindividual offence. The whole-partwholemethod of coaching team offence.• Players should be exposed to more 1v1drills and contests in training in fullcourt, from the perimeter and postsituations.• Developing this further to 2v2 and 3v3is the next stage, but there must beattention to individual skills techniquefor detail (coach individual offencewithin the team) as well as vision at alltimes. This will improve ourunderstanding114