A study on the careful selection and structurization of offensive fundamentals and individual tactics in basketball:

Through the analysis of Basketball Canada and Shiro Yoshii's Theories

Abstract

    Successful offense in basketball depends on each player's leaming and execution of a set of skills fundamental to offensive plays. Regardless of the type of team offense used, we can expect little success if the players do not have the individual tactics needed to perform one-on-one offense within an offensive system. However, in the present situation we find players given techniques and tactics too difficult, too complex, or too numerous for their talents and abilities. In additon, so far as the author has been able to uncover, very little literature exists in which clear definitions of the terms “technique" and “tactics" are given, and how much relationship and interdependence they have has not yet been made clear. The purpose of this study is to provide a trail plan on the classification of “fundamentals" and “individual tactics" in offensive basketball from the viewpoints of the careful selection and structurization by analyzing Basketball Canada and Shiro Yoshii's theories.

    The main results may be summarized as follows :

 (1) Offensive fundamentals can be roughly classified into “body control" , “ball handling" and “shooting".

  1) Body control consists of “body balance" and “footwork".

  2) Ball handling consists of “ball handling"，“reception" “passing" and “dribbling".

  3) Shooting is organized from the following four steps of shots : “one handed set shot"，“jumping set shot"，“jump shot" and “lay-up shot".

 (2) Individual tactics can be divided into two parts: player with the ball and player without the ball.

  1) Individual tactics of player with the ball is triadically classified into the exeution of fundamentals, “one player maneuvers" and “faking" depending upon whether or not they are under direct pressure from a defender.

  2) Individual tactics of player without the ball is classified into “getting open" and “faking" depending upon whether or not they are under direct pressure from a defender.

    From the results described above, we may conclude that we have been able to give a guideline for the investigation of the careful selection and structurization of offensive techniques and tactics in basketball.