Basketball Training Tips - Offense (part 1)

It’s upgrading your scoring skill, I mean additional of offensive skill. After complete the basic skill, it’s time to to play your ‘A’ games! Now you have crossover dribble, playmaker passing skill, accurate shooting skill, so what you got to do now? It is not sure untill you improve your offensive awarness. Like many top players, they did not only have a good basic skill. But they has created the game, they can control their games with their offensive awarness and creativity. Like how to play, how to get open, how to make your teammate open, whole is how to win the games. So, you should read some of these!
I decided to wrote it two ways, offense with the ball and offence without the ball:
Offensive position with the ball
When you first catch the ball, you should automatically be in what is called the triple threat. Stay low in a position to shoot, pass or dribble easily without a position change. This is one of the most important things a player can do to impress a coach. Knees should be bent, hands in the position to shoot easily, but make sure you have a tight handle on the ball so a defender doesn´t knock it away. Feet should be squared to the basket, with the power foot a little bit in front of the other.(The power foot is the foot that is matched with the dominant hand, like right handed shooters=right foot, opposite for left)
Keep your dribble alive
The most common mistake of inexperienced basketball players is "giving up their dribble". The defense will collapse on you, trap you, and feed on this mistake. Coaches can´t emphasize this enough. Emphasize catching the ball, holding the ball until you have a purpose prior to putting the ball to the floor.
Penetrate and dish
The secret to success in penetrate and dish is keep your head up when you dribble, beat your man, and as that other defender is coming toward you, pass off. You will create havoc in a team`s defensive scheme. Another tip is when you dish it off, pass while you are on the ground, not in the air. If you go airborne, it should be to score. If you go up in the air to pass, as you are in the air, a defensive player could jump into that passing lane... and then you are stuck. Many turnovers are made this way.
Penetrate Middle
On the offensive side, point guards and others should penetrate middle. I want them to get to the lane. If you can get into the lane, especially with a jump stop and are strong and solid with the ball, you are pretty much unstoppable. You could shoot, use ball fakes and shoot or pass to the low post, or kick out for a ´3´
Shot Fake
One of the most common moves is a shot fake. When another player on your team passes the ball to you and you are in triple threat and you can´t move because you have defense guarding you, you can jab (which will back the player up) or shot fake (which will make them stand up and you can go right pass them).
Fake a shot, and then drive to the basket. The key to this move is to stay low when you use the shot fake, so that you take off fast on your drive to the basket(like a track sprinter). I tell my players to “fake little, move big”.
Give & Go
The give and go is one of the most fundamental plays in basketball. What you do is pass to a teammate(this is the give part) and then cut to the basket(this is the go part). The player you passed to passes the ball back to you, and hopefully, you score. This is a great 2 man play.
Look Under the Basket
When you are handling the ball in your half court offense, it is a good rule of thumb to focus under the basket. With the development of your peripheral vision, this will allow you to see the entire floor and spot anyone on your team as they come open.