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<< Last chapter | Rules | Next chapter >> 8. Tactics Tactics are an important part of Basketsim. When you choose which tactic to play, you give a lecture to explain to your players how you expect them to behave on the court. Players will follow your instructions and play in a specific way in offense and in defense. For example they will shoot more or less, make more or less turnovers and so on. However, keep in mind that players are not robots and they won't always behave exactly as you want. The set of available tactics is described below. DEFENSIVE TACTICS Normal - if you are unsure about your defense, a normal approach might be the one. Players will play defense in a balanced way, depending on their general basketball abilities. Normal approach is a balanced approach to the defense, but it can also be considered as lack of real approach and this can cause reliability issues inside your match squad. Sprint back on defense - with this instruction you tell players to run back to defense as soon as possession is switched to the opponent. Sure, they'll still be unable to prevent some fast breaks, but fast positioning of your defense can result in opponents making less shooting attempts. Just make sure your tired team won't make less attempts too. Contest every shot - the main idea is to prevent the opponent from scoring. Whenever they'll shoot, your players will try to intervene. So it's very important for your players not to make too many personal fouls in such a game. This approach can make your opponents nervous and in such case it will have an effect on turnovers too. Block out and rebound - this instruction priviledges your rebounders, they are instructed to block out and rebound on every shot, not giving up second and third shots. This instruction is one of the hardest to carry out but if your players are good enough to disable opponents from picking many offensive rebounds, this can win the match for you. Protect power zone - this is a very specific instruction. Your players will defend aggressively, but at the same time they'll try to avoid making too much fouls. The idea is to prevent opponents from dribbling or passing into the paint, but this is always an extremely difficult task. This tactical approach affects the distribution of fouls in the match. Wear out the opponents - if your players are in good physical shape you can always try to tire your opponents. The best way to tire them is by playing pressure defense to create an up-tempo style of play. It is probable that your opponents will make more turnovers than usual, just make sure that plan won't backfire on you! OFFENSIVE TACTICS Normal - if you are unsure about your offense, the normal approach might be the one. Players will play offense in a balanced way, according to their general basketball abilities. Normal approach is a balanced approach to the offense, but it can also be considered as lack of real approach and this can cause reliability issues inside your match squad. Read the defense - "Think before you move! Try to take advantage of the defenses' weaknesses." This is what you'll be telling your players and as they will "move with a purpose" they are likely to make less turnovers in the match. However this approach can sometimes be tiresmore for them to play. Fast early breaks - fast break is all about pushing the ball up the court before the defence has a chance to set up. This approach will increase your chances for more field shots, just make sure you have capable shooters on court. Distance shooting - your players will try to shoot more often, especially from the distance. There is a big chance that opponents will respond in the same way, shooting more three-pointers to keep up with you, so make sure you're better in that area. But keep in mind that amount of forced distance shots can increase as well with this approach. On the other hand your players won't penetrate that often, so slight decrease in turnovers is possible. Try to penetrate - by telling your players to penetrate more, you can expect more contacts to occur. Very possible consequence is that your players get fouled more. So this tactical approach is not recommended unless your players have good freethrow abilities or you want to see your opponent in foul trouble for some reason. Crash the boards - many think that offensive rebounds win games, if you're one of them and you have a few capable rebounders, then you can try this approach. But study your opponents carefully, if they have decent rebounders as well and their tactical decision is to block out and rebound, then this approach might not work at all. Slight increase of fouls made on your players is another possible side-effect of this approach. << Last chapter | Rules | Next chapter >> |