How to break a half court press (youth basketball)?

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How to break a half court press (youth basketball)?

by Joe
(New Jersey)

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I have a 3rd grade girls basketball team and I want to find a simple and straight forward way to teach them how to handle a half court press?

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Nov 05, 2010
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Don't Go Back Door
by: Mike L

Grade 3 girls aren't yet able to make a back-door play, which requires the ability to "read" the defender plus the ability to throw a long pass down court (that's why presses are developmentally unfair at beginner levels).

I had a decent Grade 7 girls basketball team last year that couldn't do it. The give-and-go is best against zone, or pick-and-roll against man presses.

Unless and best of all, you've got a great ball handler who can just dribble through the defensive pressure.

Nov 11, 2009
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3rd Grade Press
by: Anonymous

Allow your best ball handler to throw in the basketball to a teammate. When the trap approaches, she fires the ball back to the ball handler cutting straight up the middle... press broken.

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