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Learn to move back and forth to shake your defender. Learn to move along the baseline in a way that you can easily pass the ball around the defender who is guarding you. Inbound the ball to your best passer. One this player gets the ball, they should get past half court quickly, as you only have 10 seconds to do this. Once they are past half court, they should look for the next pass.
When you are up against a full court press, you never want to turn your back to the defender who is guarding you. This immediately allows them to close the distance between you and them.
It also takes away your ability to see your teammates and watch for an opening. Keep your free hand up to keep the defender from getting too close to the ball. Scan the court for open players. Since passing is crucial to breaking the press, knowing where your teammates are and who is open is important.
Never watch the ball as you dribble. You need to find a groove of scanning quickly enough that you see everyone but slowly enough that you notice when someone is open. Get the ball to the player who is in the best position to make the play. Make quick, smart passes.
When you have to dribble, do it for a short amount of time while you look for the next opening. Smart passes mean seeing potential defenders who could steal the pass and avoiding them. Get the ball to the hoop.
Since passing is crucial to breaking the press, knowing where your teammates are and who is open is important. Scan the court for open players. Plus, the player will be passing from somewhere in the backcourt or dribbling down the court. Do not let the player advance the ball on the dribble. You must stay where the ref gives it to you.
Your main objective is still to score points, so once the immediate pressure if off, focus back in on the main point. Once the ball is across the half court line, pass it to your best shooter and either have them drive to the basket, or take a jump shot from where they are.
Passing the ball from player to player is good to find the right opportunity, but if the defense is running a full court press then you are probably limited on time. Try to keep it to passes total for the play. One pass to get it inbounds.
A full-court press is a basketball term for a defensive style in which the defense applies pressure to the offensive team the entire length of the court before and. I don't want to put the full court press on him if he doesn't, because then I'll look like an idiot. My legs were already asleep before I went into the full court press.
One to get it across half court, or after half court. And passes to get it to a player who can score. Beat the press after a missed shot.
The player who rebounds should begin to dribble down the court while everyone else sprints down ahead of them. The difference here is that the clock will not stop for you to take it out of bounds. Plus, the player will be passing from somewhere in the backcourt or dribbling down the court. You may not be able to control which player pulls down the rebound, but you can plan to have your best ball handler hang back so the rebounder can pass it to them.
Scout the opposing team ahead of time. Many teams will consistently run the same format of full court press, so knowing this ahead of time will help you prepare for it come game time. You may find they do it frequently. If so, you can drill your team on attacking the press successfully.
Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Already answered Not a question Bad question Other. Basketball Print Edit Send fan mail to authors. This is a great drill. Watch us on YouTube. Which category applies to you? To set up this drill you'll want two lines of offensive players at mid court.
You'll want three defensive players which you can use assistants or coaches instead of players. You'll need a player to receive the inbounds pass and someone to throw the ball inbounds could be a coach. The inbounder will pass to Player 1. This player must catch the ball and face the basket. It's important to catch and face with a strong wide base, protecting the ball, and stay low.
The first two defensive players will trap the ball.
The third defender is playing in the middle ready to anticipate and intercept the pass. After receiving the pass, Player 1 will try to pass to Player 2 or 3. It's important for Player 1 to stay low if they stand straight up or turn their back to the defense they will be able to tighten the trap. It's also important for Player 1 so use their pivot, use pass fakes, read the defense, and make a nice crisp pass to the open player. Player 1 might need to use a back up dribble or split the defense to create a good open passing angle.