Drop Coverage
Drop Coverage is a coaching concept involving handler curves around screen while big sits in paint.
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Basketball Terms In English And Chinese
A bilingual basketball glossary for English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese terms across actions, coverages, rotations, and player roles.
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Basketball Terms In English And Chinese
Bball Vault pairs English basketball terminology with Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations so learners can connect coaching language across languages. This is most useful for tactical terms like drop coverage, ICE, DHO, Spain pick-and-roll, BLOB, SLOB, switch, and blitz.
High-value bilingual terms
These concepts appear often in modern basketball coaching and film study.
ICE (In-and-out Contain Eliminate) Coverage
ICE (In-and-out Contain Eliminate) Coverage is a coaching concept involving handler dribbles one direction, poa overplays to force them that way.
Switch Coverage
Switch Coverage is a coaching concept involving poa takes roller, big takes handler.
Blitz/Trap Coverage
Blitz/Trap Coverage is a coaching concept involving two defenders attack handler at screen.
Spain Pick & Roll
The Spain PnR (also called Spain Action) is a ball screen combined with a back screen set on the ball screener's defender as they hedge or switch.
DHO (Dribble Handoff) Actions
DHO (Dribble Handoff) Actions: A dribble handoff (DHO) is mechanically similar to a pick-and-roll but operationally different: the player with the.
BLOB (Baseline Out-of-Bounds) Fundamentals
BLOB (Baseline Out-of-Bounds) Fundamentals: BLOB plays are executed from the baseline when the ball goes out of bounds near your own basket or the.
SLOB (Sideline Out-of-Bounds) Basics
SLOB (Sideline Out-of-Bounds) Basics: SLOB plays are executed from the sideline (not the baseline) when the ball goes out of bounds on the side.