Optional Sport I - Basketball

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge of the game as athlete eases the learning of the unit’s contents.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies combine the expositive lectures with field work, with the students acting as assistant coaches in specialization teams. Video resources are widely used for observation and data collection.

Learning Outcomes

The unit aims to provide the student with the competencies to act as coaches at a specialization level. The students must be able to build their own intervention plan.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1)Dinamics of the game. The contemporary high level game. Time rules and their impact on tactics.

2)Fast break and transition game. Passing lanes and role specialization.

3)Building the offense: a developmental perspective. Perimeter game and  inside game.

4)Spacing in high level game: cut and clear out. Changing the ball side.

5)1 on 1 inside and outside. Opening a passing lane and receiving the ball. Passing and timing.

6)Screens: vertical and horizontal. Staggers. Pick and roll.

7)Playing against a help defense. Drive and passing out.  High-low post game. Offense rebound.

8)Motion offenses versus set plays. Offense against man-to-man and against zone. Game observation and data collection. Scouting and digital technologies.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos Eduardo Barros Gonçalves

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Project: 20.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 40.0%
Practical intervention: 40.0%

Final
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Wootten M (1992) Coaching basketball successfully. Champaign, Ill, Leisure Press.

Bosc G, Poulain T (1991) Des clés pour le basket. Paris, Vigot.

Jordane F, Martin J (1999) Baloncesto.Bases para el alto rendimiento. Barcelona, Editorial Hispano Europea.

Cometti G (2002) La preparación fisica en el baloncesto. Barcelona, Editorial Paidotribo.

Sampaio J (2000) Modelo de análise estatística em Basquetebol. UTAD.

Giannini, J. (2009). Court Sense. Champaign, Ill, Human Kinetics.

VVAA. (2009). NBA coaches playbook. Champaign, Ill, Human Kinetics.