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.