How Do You Initiate An Offense In Basketball?
Basketball is a game of teamwork. For a team to be successful, five players need to work together on both ends of the floor. On offense, players need to pass, set picks, be aggressive, and find the open man. But there’s only one ball. The task of creating the initial breakdown of the defense falls to a single player. And the better the initial break in the defense is, the harder it is for a defense to recover. To initiate an offense, the player with the ball needs to create a situation where the defense needs to adjust to stop him from scoring. Forcing the defense adjust is the key. Don’t telegraph. By looking in the direction you intend to drive, you give away the move you intend to perform and make it easy for the defender to cut you off. One solution is to look the opposite way you intend to drive. This might work once in awhile, but it it easy to counteract. A better solution is to look and drive right at the defender until the last second before you break around him. This will not
