The Five Phases Of A Multiple Phase Offensive System
The five basic ways that an offense can begin attacking the opposition’s defense have been thoroughly discussed. During every game, each of these five methods, will be the initial attacking wave or phase of the offensive system. When shots are not taken from this particular phase but possession of the basketball is retained, there is always a smooth & seamless transition into the continuity phase of the offensive attack. Primary Fastbreaks that flow into Secondary Fastbreaks can have an extra phase of attack that flows into the designated continuity offense or the motion-type offense. Never do we want to run a Fastbreak or a half-court play and when no shots are taken, then back out of that phase to again restart or “set up” the offense. The Multiple-Phase Offensive System never gives the opposition’s defense any breathing room and always maintains constant pressure on the opposition’s defense. The five main phases mean that an offense can begin attacking the opposition’s defense by utilizing:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF MULTIPLE-PHASE OFFENSIVE SYSTEMS (FOR ALL FULL-COURT AND HALF-COURT OFFENSIVE SITUATIONS)
The Primary Objectives of a good offensive system are to “always place all individual offensive players in positions/locations and situations to succeed.” This means that the initial objective of every play/entry is to immediately “place the right people in the right place” so that those players can utilize and highlight their specific strengths, minimize their individual Weaknesses and therefore have better opportunities to score quickly and directly off of the play. The offensive action is to allow that team to be the team that initiates the ‘action’ while also forcing the defense to always be the reactionary team and to adjust to the strategies and movement of both the ball and the offensive players. This is combined with another objective of always having any of the five possible basic phases or levels within the offensive system. Another major (but not immediate) objective of each play is that if the entry does not produce a shot, all five offensive players end up in what we call the “spot-ups” of the specific continuity offense that is utilized.