Dibbling Essay

Dribbling.

Dribbling is moving around the court with the ball while bouncing with one hand using fingertips and below the waist. The player can remain still or move across the court while dribbling. The dribble ends when the player catches the ball. They are not allowed to start dribbling the ball again until another player has touched the ball. Fast Dribbling allows you to make your team mates go into a better position and create more chances to score a basket.

Types of dribbling

Speed dribble is used when a player has an open area with no one guarding him and forcing player to stop so he doesn’t have to protect the ball. This gives the player a good chance to make faster dribbling while achieving some distance. Reverse dribble Reverse Dribble When you are closely guarded, you can use reverse dribble to prevent the opponent from stealing the ball. These risk the player to loose sign for some time and can result into losing the ball from the back. Change-Of pace dribble this type of dribbling used to trick your opponent for example, when a player is running fast with the ball then he would slow down. And quickly get into faster speed this makes the opponent think that the player is going to perform a pass while he is slowing down.

My strength is that I can do normal type of dribbling and move around to pass it to my team mate to create chances. Also, I can do fast dribbling if I have an open area. This helps to create more and make my teammates go into better position for scoring.

My weakness When I dribbled the ball it was a lot like high bounce and not fast pace when i use to move around while dribble I wouldn’t have a good control on the ball every time i speed up and run around I would easily loose the ball because slow agi...

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