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A motion offense is a category of offensive scheme used in basketball. Motion offenses use player movement, often as a strategy to exploit the quickness of the offensive team or to neutralize a size advantage of the defense. Motion offenses are different from continuity offenses in that they follow no fixed repeating pattern. Instead, a motion ...
A basketball playbook, like any sports playbook, involves compilation of strategies the team would like to use during games. The playbook starts as a canvas picture of the basketball court with all its boundaries and lines. On top of that, the playmaker can draw O's for players on offense, and X's for players on defense. Specifically however ...
In the 1992 East Regional Final, with 2.1 seconds left and down 103–102 in overtime, Duke forward Christian Laettner caught a full court inbounds pass from Grant Hill, turned and hit a 17-footer (5 m) at the buzzer to give the Duke Blue Devils a 104–103 victory over the Kentucky Wildcats. The lead changed hands five times in the last 31.5 ...
The Blue Devils started January struggling to score points, unable to shoot 40%. In the past four games, the team is sharing the ball, finding better shots — and making them.
Led by Dariq Whitehead’s four 3-pointers, the Blue Devils shot 54.5% overall to top the Orange in front of a crowd of 31,063 at the JMA Wireless Dome.
Match-up zone defense; Motion offense; N. Nellie Ball; P. Pace and space; Pick and pop; Pick and roll; Player tracking (National Basketball Association) Princeton ...
Duke looked good all around in a rout over Georgia Tech in Atlanta on Saturday. Now, the Blue Devils must do this against better ACC teams like Wake Forest, UNC, Miami and Virginia.
The 1–3–1 defense and offense is a popular strategy used in basketball. Typical 1-3-1 Formation. The 1-3-1 zone defense is a defensive basketball formation. It was originally utilized by legendary basketball coach Red Sarachek. This defense is named for its formation since there is one defender at the point, three defenders at the free ...