KS4 · Physical education · Year 10
The defensive role
Non-examined assessment: basketball practical
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Your learning goal
I can use defensive strategies to limit space and shooting opportunities in and around the key.
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The defensive role: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can use defensive strategies to limit space and shooting opportunities in and around the key.
Key learning 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.
- 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.
Words to know
- 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
Pupils think that for GCSE assessment. their defence is looked at individually.
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.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Provide pupils time to practice a zone and plan their defensive strategies and the role they will need to do in each one.