Plays
Our offense used against Man-to-Man defense
What is "Raider"
The amount of 9th graders that we have on our team.
What is 5?
On the show Friends, Phoebe has triplets. This "stance" is one you should be in every time you catch a pass in basketball.
What is Triple threat
The player on our team who is left-handed
Who is Julianne
The color we wear for away games
what is red
This offense is played against a zone defense, and involves the guards replacing each other after a pass around the top, as well as the bigs flashing high post and moving to the short corner.
What is "Z"
These are the names of the two varsity coaches
What are Coach Dan and Coach Steve
Getting open is necessary if we want to score!
This is one alphabetical way you can become more open.
What is V-cut?
Where is Holyoke MA
How many options are there in press break 1
what is 4
In this zone offense, you can find the 1 passing to one of the wings, and then cutting down towards the hoop, receiving a screen from one of the bigs to then pop out to the ball side corner. You can also find the opposite ball side big cutting to high post when the ball goes to the corner. There is also a reversal option to get the 1 another corner 3 point look.
What is "Jack"
This is where Coach Cloutier coached basketball before she coached at Hampshire
What is Westfield High School
The key to breaking a press isn't necessarily straight-forward. One big part is getting the ball to the middle, and not dribbling through it. This is the last key to press breaking.
What are diagonal cuts? ( 10 bonus points if you said "HARD diagonal cuts)
You have this many seconds to pass the ball in from out of bounds
What is 5 seconds
What is our goal for percentage of foul shots made?
what is 65 %
The amount of options in press break 1
What is 4
If you added the amount of players we have on the team to Coach Cloutier's current age, and then added the number of middle schoolers on our team to that.
What is 46.
Jump shots require JUMPING. But they also require this dance-like sounding footwork for a right handed player.
What is Left-Right
Name the zone defense you were taught briefly this year
What is 3-2 Zone
Our two sideout plays that we put in today.
What are Box and Triangle.
The difference between Jack and Jill.
What is the 1 passes to a wing, and then baseline cuts to the opposite side that they passed to (opposite ball side)
The age of our team captain minus the number of tenth graders on our team, minus the name of our press break that was taught to you most recently, MINUS the number of years Coach Cloutier has taught at Hampshire, MINUS the age of our youngest team member
What is -6
This is when you should be in HELP defensively
What is when your player is two or more passes away from the ball
There are 40 seconds left in the game, our team is up by 4. We have the ball, what should we be sure to do?
Slow it down, run our offense. Don't foul
We are down by 2. There are 34 seconds left in the game. The other team has the ball coming down the court, what should we do?
Foul! Or find a way to stop the clock