I'm a dad who is pretending to be a netball coach:-)
The team is fourteen year olds who play school netball. They are C grade out of a possible A to H grading so they are pretty good athletes.
Things are ok on defence and midcourt and we have developed a fast and free attacking style which seems to work okay when we can get the ball down the court and into the circle at speed.
The trouble starts when we get to the other end and the opposition defence stops us at or around the circle.
My question is "What should the attakers be trying to do when attacking around the circle." I hear words like "rotation" and "transition" but that means nothing to me.
Any advice and drills would be hugely appreciated.
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The thing with 'attacking' play is that it has to (a) be timed to perfection and (b) executed with pace (speed). hat's why you hear calls for 'rotation' and 'transition' the coach is telling players (such as the WA and C) to drop back and then sprint forward to a new position possibly with the aim of the WA picking up the defending C and the C picking up the WD.
Most frequently players with either get (a) or (b) right but not both at the same time! For example, the C sprints towards the edge of the circle but the feeder isn't looking, sees the C and passes to ball straight to her. As a consequence the C now has to try and stop and receive the ball all about 3 feet short of where she *really* wanted the ball. Sometimes it'll be the other way round, the C has gone too soon into a space and has already stopped by the time her partner is ready to pass the ball.
Therefore all attacking drills work on a combination of sprinting into a space with the ball being placed just ahead of the worker so that she can time her stop and catch (just at the edge of the circle!). Or drills where a feeder has to make decisions about which player to pass too; looking for a player heading into a space into which a acceurate pass can be made.
Other standard type drills work on players jogging off away backwards from the ball (making space) and then sprinting into a forward space.
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