Re: [nas] USA-Korea -tactics.......

["Christopher S. Allen" <csallen@charter.net>]

On 12 Jun 2002 at 19:47, Parker T wrote:

> In a related note, I think there are many many tactical similarities
> between soccer and basketball.   Basketball is small sided ball
> movement and defense with five players.  Off the ball running,
> maneuvering the defense, pressuring, containing, trapping, attacking
> with the dribblee, and on and on.  Soccer is the same, but add
> another layer of players around the five at the perimeter, and some
> interesting dimensions.  Study the tactics of basketball and a coach
> might be able to bring some innovations to the tactics of soccer. 

Yeah, but there's one huge difference!

Timeouts in basketball where the coaches always try to micromanage.

I'm giving away my age here, but 30 or 40 years ago, the NBA had at 
most 1 or 2 timeouts per half, and the players actually had to think for 
themselves.

Just like they do in soccer now.

Hockey might be a more appropriate analogy, if there weren't frequent 
substitutions.

Cheers, Chris
Chris Allen
csallen@charter.net
http://home.attbi.com/~csallen/soccer.htm
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