Year 10 - Physical education
The defensive role
Non-examined assessment: basketball practical
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Unit Summary
This unit provides pupils with the knowledge and opportunity to replicate skills in isolation and in performance scenarios in basketball. As a popular team sport offered it will cover passing/receiving, dribbling, shooting, marking and defending and decision making in both attack and defence.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use defensive strategies to limit space and shooting opportunities in and around the key.
Key Notes
- Move: quick movements and reactions deny time and space when the attacking team come within range.
- Think: being basket side with one hand up and one hand out improves marking on and off the ball.
- Feel: reflecting on your performance enables you to understand the importance of the defensive strategies.
- Connect: working as a team e.g. zone defence, will make the attacking then basket more challenging for opponents.
Vocabulary To Learn
- player to player defence: a defensive strategy where each player is assigned to track and guard an opposing player
- zone defence: players guard areas of the key instead of individual players
- half/full court press: defense is player to player when the offense enter their attacking half of the court/from the baseline
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that for GCSE assessment. their defence is looked at individually.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: quick movements and reactions deny time and space when the attacking team come within range. Think: being basket side with one hand up and one hand out improves marking on and off the ball.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'player to player defence'
a defensive strategy where each player is assigned to track and guard an opposing player.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that for GCSE assessment. their defence is looked at individually. Correction: In the fully competitive game, part of the assessment is showing an understanding of the different types of defence and which would is best to use depending on the situation of the game.
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