Show Basket asket Ball BallF Strategy F rf I By DR JAMES NAISMITH Father of the Ike Game Copyright N L Ur PI Dt Bowl Versatility Yr of ff attack Is a basketball the th net results of which are equaled in no other sport port As the sea season season son is 1 especially long It behooves play pla players ers is to pile pill up a lengthy list of plays plas pl s in m order that opponents may ma not learn your formations within the first few minutes of a game and profit thereby In arriving at that end ond it is not necessary sary al to load the players player memories with combinations of ot complicated complicated make mak Plays may be switched about the time start being the same in many man instances but the finish bewilderingly different from other formations thus aiding In confusing opponents In following out the time plan of building plays over each eCh other I am presenting herewith a new flew ne enter center combination the difference from the one presented pre previously previously being that In this instance the center receives the tho ball bail under the bas baa basket ket on the same side aide of the floor from rom which the forward throws throw it In the first fi t renter enter play pin which I used the pass paM was vita directed diagonally across the gym gymnasium gymnasium m to the center As s a result when wh n opponents opponent see sec the starting evolutions of the later combination after the first luls lits been used their defense will vIll nat naturally be b directed to tn the wrong of the goal go I This Rives the tI renter center a comparatively free fre toss for the goal In the th din diagram pram to tn the left No o 1 left lett forward sprints for a It position to the loft left of the center just as the th referee IB is tossing the sphere S herf tip in the center fOnter The ball Is 15 knocked by the center No Nu 3 who immediately runs to a point a 11 afew afew few feet fett to 10 the left of the lie goal and takes the th pass KLOH from rom the left let forward after a which the try for a goal oal is attempted Ill LL I I If free fee the center should never neer miss mis an easy throw of or that kind but in case he does your players play rs cover points of ot van vantage vantage vantage tage as follows No 00 1 takes a place Immediately in front of the goal No 3 holding his place to the left leU of the goal while No 2 right forward simply chases cha him himself himself self half way wily up the floor door and back to a point several feet teet nearer neater the basket The right forward IB is sent into the ac action action acIon No 2 tion Ion in the diagram to the right takes the sphere I ph ere from the centers right hand side aide delivering it almost straight down the floor to No o 3 under the he goat goal from which point the latter tries his shot Then the players cover their positions exactly reverse of the manner in which they accomplished that feat In the dia diagram diagram diagram gram to the left No 3 stands fast No 2 occupying a place In front of the tha goal goat and No 1 I not being In the play pia plays tag with his guard as indicated In the plays In which the center does the throwing for goals that player r must be b exceptionally fast upon his feet for he has a hard duty duh to perform in getting from the th point where he jumps jumpa for the ball to the basket which must be bo done with greater speed than the for forwards forwards forwards wards need use For instance supposing ing that he only gets half way WR to the basket when the ball bail reaches the point called for or In the diagram the th sphere cannot escape falling into the hands hamis of one of or the opposing guards or going out of bounds If It the forward is com corn compelled compelled polled to wait walt for the center to occupy his position under the goal the will be the object of the attack of both the opposing guard and center thus ef of effectually fC breaking up the play at its start The beauty of this series of forma fOrIM formations to my notion Is that they draw opponents away awa from the tile spot which the scoring is attempted Take the current formation as an example The forward handling the ball bail draws hh kiM guard away aRY from the objective point po nt while the forward on the tho other oth r side aide ot of atthe the floor noor perform the same feat Th The center enter should have hao no trouble In dodging dodgIng ing his ills individual opponent thus giving givIng ing big an unhampered toss for a basket The TIme guards naturally natural endeavor to stick k to their forwards and as a consequence con consequence sequence tile the th Immediate vicinity of the goal Is deserted Even though the play goes wrong at atthe atthe atthe the start by the opposing center gen geft ting Un tIme the jump against the player of th the I ti l I p 1 If i r z J If 11 4 y LI LII I I Or 7 fM FO team represented as aggressor the com coin combination combination may sun still work out profitably by heady work on the part of or the guards It is their duty to recover oer the ball before It reaches the opposing for forwards forwards forwards wards and pass it to their center for forthe forthe forthe the try at goal If the forwards see that thet their center is being the most successful manner of ot overcoming that snag Is getting behind their own 00 player taking the th ball from the jump and rom corn completing the combination from a position other than that designated The Theah basketball fan tan will ask What do you suppose the other oth r team tam tamIs Is going to be doing while these thes plays are working out And he has put the question which I 1 dote on ott answering In the first place nothing succeeds In any uny sport fort without ability and antI hard fast lIrk rk J nd that is what ahat I expect f my readers reader who ho are a play players pl ers era to k lend nd to tl i 11 in order tn to bring out the boot best be t that Is 11 in m this series The tad feet that a straight line U is the tho shortest t distance between two I o points Is IR IRan Isan isan an argument in favor of the use uce of set Itt playe piaye because instead of much maging the theo bell ball is t sent direct to I best beet point of vantage vAnt which by the th use 11 of clever strategy has haa h born been cleared nf f opponents opponent Every player has his hI place and th more skilled your opponents are an tn Ui t more 17 they succumb to most moat of f the formations This is II true because as In the accompanying plays playa a well trained guard will stick closely to Irn lm h forward and unsuspectingly u follow follo him away from the objective point Again A returning to my answer to the skeptical fan an No matter what hat pursuit on 1 t enga engaged in a system is the thing thin Here Her we have hae a II basketball syster Which tends code ten to simplify the evolutions nol necessary ry to scoring points by making th the throws understood beforehand and the placing of your men at points point which are known to each eath one of If the team No o team can an afford to be b without a repertoire of formations formation drilled into its guards forwards ami center canter by hard hanl early season practice They are an absolute essential for tor you may mel put a team on a floor against I 1 trained squad quad and end no matter what bat Indi Individual Individual vidual stars the th former may possess the tM of nf the latter to is t bound t the performances of the trl ter lar lights Each Bach man of tf the trainer train five fhe knows knowe to tl t s the ball bait the tM Instant he h melve it and his hili team teammates teammates mates mattS know kno Just Ju t where to t receive lve th pass paM thus losing no time nor effort The stars alanl on the c are corn lorn polled pelted perhaps to wait walt for each other to assume me position of advantage this delay giving opponents the opportunity to coter the t man holding the ball bail end and an 1 squelch k h passes which whim eventually I Inet net goals Other sports do not Dot foster teamwork I believe In ae u great reat pro proportion proportion pr portion aa u does don basketball The game me Is built on Oft that theme and it its success depends depend upon ability to Co execute previously pr ouy prepared formations in th tv ti shortest space apace of time and with to te I l leffort least leat effort |