Basketball Observation
My first observation was in New Britain, it was wheelchair basketball. When first walking in I didn’t know what expect, I didn’t know what type of personalities the athletes would have towards me because I felt they might feel I was invading their sanctuary. The athletes had an extremely open and friendly environment, they saw that I was trying to be cautious and not disturb their normal practice rituals. The athletes came over to me and was happy to see that I was interested in the sport wheelchair basketball, so they wanted to get off task to educate me on the rules, different types of wheelchairs, and how the different wheelchairs cant have better advantages.
When playing Wheelchair Basketballs they have basically the same rules as normal …show more content…
The personality varied from athletes that talked a lot and were highly energetic, to athlete that were not talkative at all and were lethargic. During the Practice athlete was evaluated on the Offense, defense, and their level of fitness. The head coach had us breakup into stations and work on three different offensive skills layups, foul shooting, and dribbling. I coached at the layup station; we had the athletes get into two lines. One line would be the shooting line and the other line would be the rebound and passing line, when coaching the students on the drill they learned best with visual instruction so we would have a student that knew how to do the drill demonstrate. The athlete were very motived to see new faces at their practice helping out, they could not wait to show off their basketball skills. When running my drill the head coach would come over to evaluate the players, he said he was looking for the athlete’s ability to dribble the ball successfully to the hoop and jump of the foot that was closest to the hoop with control. After all the stations were completed we went into a scrimmage, before the game began we instructed them to play a zone telling them you must return to the spot on the court when play defense. When starting the game we helped facilitate the offence, we would run the court with the athletes assisting them with ball vision helping them make the appropriate pass. During the game I was amazed by the act of kindness on the court, the players would let this one athlete shoot the ball and every player knew not to try and contest his
When playing Wheelchair Basketballs they have basically the same rules as normal …show more content…
The personality varied from athletes that talked a lot and were highly energetic, to athlete that were not talkative at all and were lethargic. During the Practice athlete was evaluated on the Offense, defense, and their level of fitness. The head coach had us breakup into stations and work on three different offensive skills layups, foul shooting, and dribbling. I coached at the layup station; we had the athletes get into two lines. One line would be the shooting line and the other line would be the rebound and passing line, when coaching the students on the drill they learned best with visual instruction so we would have a student that knew how to do the drill demonstrate. The athlete were very motived to see new faces at their practice helping out, they could not wait to show off their basketball skills. When running my drill the head coach would come over to evaluate the players, he said he was looking for the athlete’s ability to dribble the ball successfully to the hoop and jump of the foot that was closest to the hoop with control. After all the stations were completed we went into a scrimmage, before the game began we instructed them to play a zone telling them you must return to the spot on the court when play defense. When starting the game we helped facilitate the offence, we would run the court with the athletes assisting them with ball vision helping them make the appropriate pass. During the game I was amazed by the act of kindness on the court, the players would let this one athlete shoot the ball and every player knew not to try and contest his