P3 · Game & tactics · Layer 3 · Shape others
Two moves ahead
What this layer works on
Shape other people's movement, with a plan.
Defence
Steer the offence: force baseline or sideline, a plan per opponent.
Question to observe
Can the player name what the opponent will do, before it happens?
Activities that fit here
Ultimate with a basketball
Agree who cuts deep and who comes to the ball.The second cut
Use the first cut to take a defender with you on purpose.Look before you catch
Include the help defender in the choice.Help and recover 3-on-3
Help and rotate as a unit; protect the paint.Short-handed: 4-on-3
The defence organises itself: who takes whom when outnumbered?Contain or go: when to go for the ball?
Agree as a team when we put on pressure.Ball–you–basket: defending on the pass
Help and rotate as a unit; talk.Monkey in the middle, no dribble
The defenders steer the pass to one side and attack it there.
Teams in this layer
All goals7
Basketball
- Everything under rising defensive pressure
- Fast break pass, one hand, hard and flat
Game & decisions
- Think two actions ahead in halfcourt
- Ball screen: pick & roll, slip — only once timing and spacing are there
- Zone offense/defense, BLOB and SLOB
Attention & independence
- Working memory now genuinely supports two-aheadnew
Playing together & language
- Lead part of the session
Weeks and sessions3
- wk 24–25Read before the catch
- wk 26–27Help & rotate — by age
- wk 28Apply it in game form
22 Feb – 26 Mar