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01 сентября 2004 Журнал "FIBA Assist Magazine"

Виды спорта: Баскетбол

Рубрики: Профессиональный спорт

Автор: Khalil Tony

Development In Lebanese Women’s Basketball

Development In Lebanese Women’s Basketball

Development In Lebanese Women’s Basketball

Tony Khalil has sixteen years experience as the head coach of top basketball teams in Lebanon. He was also the senior Lebanese national coach in 1992, and he was in charge for the women’s Lebanese basketball program from 1997 to 1999. He won two FIBA Western Asia Basketball Association (WABA) Championships for Junior Women in 1998 and 1999.

Throughout my career, I have coached at all levels, from the beginners to the National Team. However, after five years now, one experience still holds a special place in my career: being responsible for the women’s program in the Lebanese Basketball Federation from 1997 to 1999. A coach usually has to either help develop young players or build a winning team at the senior level. Building a complete program from A to Z was really a challenge.

I am seeing the fruit of this work when I see girls that I started working with at the age of 13 years blossom as basketball players and are part of the Women’s national team of Lebanon.

It all started in 1997, when Lebanon was hosting the FIBA Pan-Arab Games. I was named to the technical staff of the womens Lebanese team that ultimately finished third in this tournament. However, one major drawback was the lack of players. For this tournament, we lined up 12 players, but only seven had the experience to play at this higher level.

After the end of the games, I was asked by the Lebanese Basketball Federation to start building the women’s program that would compete with the elite of the Arab countries. With the support of the Federation, we started the project. Here is what had to be done:

  1. Increase the number of clubs and divisions of basketball in 1997 (five teams and one division) to three divisions, each with an average of eight clubs in 1999.
  2. Create age-group championships. Instead of one championship, we now had the mini-basketball category, Under 8, Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16, Junior Women, and Young Ladies championships. In each category, players had an average of seven to eight months of competition, either with the first team or with the specific age category.
  3. Make regular weekly practices for the national teams and adjust the schedule of the championships. Tuesdays and Thursdays were for the senior A & B teams, Fridays and Sundays for the 14-to-18-year bracket, Saturdays for the under-14 bracket. By doing this, we had had the continuity of the national teams.
  4. Involve coaches to work with this program through the clinics that the Lebanese Basketball Federation organized. We could then choose among these coaches a special group to work with the national teams for women, giving them the advantages and the experience of international level competition.
  5. First participate on the regional level and then move to the international level. Starting in 1998, we emphasized participation with the Western Asia Basketball Association and the Arab Basketball Federation.
  6. Involve the parents with basketball and the practice sesions by having them come to practices of the national teams.
  7. Involve TV in broadcasting women’s basketball.

WHAT RESULTS DID THIS PROGRAM ACHIEVE?

First, it increased the number of licensed woman players and the number of women’s clubs.

Second, it made the women’s national teams a force on regional level, winning the junior women’s championship of WABA in 1998 and 1999, the FIBA Pan-Arab Championship in 2000 (third in 1998), and winning second place in the FIBA Senior Pan-Arab Games in 2000.

Lebanese Clubs soon became more interested in creating a women’s team.

This was a brief view of the organizational work done in this period, but how about the technical work that was performed?

We basically worked on two lines: the general and individual.

This was done for all the players, with specialized work done according to the position. Although it was the work of the club to form the players, the technical staff took it on itself to work with the players on the basics fo the game. Here is how this work was done:

  • Teaching of the jump stop or two count stop to our center, first without the ball and then feeding her with passes. The coach dribbles around the perimeter. The center sprints toward the ball, receives the pass after a jump stop or a two-count stop (diagr. 1).
  • Movement in the low post: We start by teaching without the feeder and without defense. The pivot will fake left, then go right, or vice versa. She will learn to step one way, change direction and go to the ball. This is the V cut.
  • The second step is to perform the same drill and receive ball. We emphasize the change of direction and hand calling for ball.
  • For the third step, we add a defensive player and start the teaching process of feeding her with the ball against an opponent. Our pivot should feel her opponent and lead her one way to break to the ball (diagr. 2 and 3).

Pivot offensive moves:

We need to work on daily offensive moves. The moves that post players use to score to control the offensive basket include:

A - Catch-and-go

  1. Jump stop: Every night our big player catch at least several passes from several parts of the court and come to a jump stop from each of these areas (diagr. 4).
  2. Catch-and-go: The post player should catch-and-go every day from the spots shown in diagram 5.

After we do these drills, we add the soft defense in order to perfect the recognition.

B - Show the ball and go to the opposite, same sequence of work. First, with no defense, then with defense. All is performed with the back to the basket.

C - Show the ball and go the same way. All is performed with the back to the basket.

D - Drop step-and-go: With her back to the basket, she jump stops, catches the ball, does a drop step, and goes to the basket from the four different positions.

  • Post face the basket: Players sprint to one of the spots, pivot, face the basket, then drive for the lay-up.
  • Post face and shoot: Same routine. Instead of going to the basket, shoot immediately.
  • Post face fake left, go left, fake right, go right.
  • Post various moves: Like any drill, this starts with a jump step and it must be done from various spots on the floor, first without defense, then with the addition of defense.

WHAT ARE THE MOVES?

  • Outside Run
  • Inside Run
  • Outside pivot
  • Inside pivot (diagr. 6)

Also, on our daily big ladies routine, we must work with pivot shots. These include:

A - Right and left hand
B - Right and left reverse
C - Perimeter jump shot
D - Baby hook (right and left)

I described our work with our centers and power forward players. I would now like to describe workouts for our perimeter players.

We start the same as for the big ladies with the jump stop. The players must catch the ball, square up, and face the basket. They must always be in the triple-threat position because from this position they can dribble, shoot, or pass. Their left foot should be slightly ahead, if they are right-handed, and vice versa if left handed. Once they have mastered this drill of catchin the ball and being in the triple-threat, we start teaching the move:

1 - Direct drive or the strong-side drive: Once the player catches the ball and she is in the triple threat position, she uses the jab step. This is done with the right foot for right-handed players, and with the left foot for left-handed players.

After the first short jab step , a bigger one is made, and the player then explodes to the basket. Players must learn to go in a straight line to the basket and not to curve or loop around the defense. Looping around the defense allows the defense time to recover and block access to the basket.

2 - The cross-over drive: Same start as the direct drive. The perimeter player catches the ball and goes into triple threat position, then jab steps. The defense is cutting the way to the basket: If the player is right-handed, she crosses her right foot over to the left side, stepping by the defender’s feet and putting the defender on her hip.

With both of these moves, players can use either the jump shot or the power lay-up.

Both moves are performed after a jump stop and catching the ball.

Let me now describe the moves, which help the player attack the defense while dribbling:

  • Stop-and-go: The perimeter player is dribbling as if attacking the defense, but she suddenly stops, and when the defense stops, she explodes directly to the basket.
  • Cross over: The perimeter player is dribbling, attacking the defense, and she plants her front foot and crosses over, low to the other side.
  • The reverse: If the player is right-handed, she plants her left foot and reverses to the other side, keeping the ball with the right hand. When she finishes the move, she dribbles with her left hand and explodes past the defense.

These moves I have described are not the only drills we use, but they are important because they provide the player with the offensive tools needed to score.

Since the local clubs did not work on these drills, we had to do this on the national team level, in order to get our players ready for high-level competition.

When we achieved our national team success, women’s basketball in Lebanon received much attnetion from local clubs and more work was done on the regional level to help develop better players.

Soon, we had more teams and more coaches involved in the teaching process.

The tremendous success we had with women’s basketball, between 1997 and 2000, would not have been possible if the Lebanese Basketball Federation would not have the foresight to work on a long-term program, and the Western Asian Basketball Association (which includes teams from Korea, China, and Japan) created regular competitions for women.

Looking at this experience, I see that much work has already been done; however, we have to continue to push forward and do even better.

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