Barcelona

Basketball
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By Ignacio

Table of Contents

Barcelona Basketball

Table of Contents

Introduction

Best players

Strategies

Salary

Glossary

Introduction

If you like sports, and you dont know basketball? So now there is a new sport for you. If you
dont know how to play basketball, play like the legendary players, like Michael Jordan, he was
the best player in the history, just practice a lot and then play then try to play like the
legendary players. Maybe one day
after a lot of practice you can
play in the pro leagues. Learn
everything you need to know about
basketball right here!

Fun fact
You know that the basketball is
94 feet long

Best players

There is a lot of really good players in Barcelona. I am going to choose the top 3 players in
Barcelona. The top 3 players are 1. Navarro 2. Huertas 3.Tomic. They are the best players in
Barcelona. But the best players before the ones now, were Ricky Rubio, Pau Gasol and Marc
Gasol. I think the best player now in Barcelona is Navarro because he can score a lot of three
pointers and at two pointers. The next best player is Huertas because he has a lot of skills.
The next best player in Barcelona is Tomic because he can do really good slam dunks. Slam
dunks are when a player scores and hangs on to the hoop. There were a lot of good players in
Barcelona, one of them is Ricky Rubio he could dribble a lot and he was a skilled player.
Another really good player was Pau Gasol he is really good at three pointers. Another really
good player is Marc Gasol he is also really good at two points.

This is Navarro

This is Marcelinho
Huertas

This is Tomic
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Strategies

In Barcelona they have some strategies. One of the positions is called base. Another position is
called pivot. The last position is called eaves. The strategy Barcelona most uses is 2-1-2. This
means there is 2 in defence 1 in the center and 2 in the attack. Thats the most common strategy
other teams use, but sometimes Barcelona uses 2-2-1. This means that there is 2 in defence, 2 in
the center and 1 in attack. That is another common strategy Barcelona and other teams use.
Another common strategy teams use is 2-3 because there is 2 players on defence but the third
person on attack is in the middle so no one can pass person. An uncommon strategy is 1-2-2
because there is only one person in defence, 2 people in the center and 2 people in the attack.
Another uncommon
strategy is 1-1-3 because
of the team is on attack, 1
person is on the center and
one person in the defence. !

Teams have different styles

to play, defence and
offense. There is two
different styles of defence
styles, the zone and man
to man. Some teams use
man to man to put full-court
pressure. !

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This formation is 2-3.

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Sponsors
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All the teams have sponsors. Sponsors like shoe companies, drink companies and other
companies. Sponsors have good in them because the company gains money from the club. The
shoe company like Nike or Adidas sometimes gives the players their basketball shoes to play with,
in matches and training. These are some sponsors:!
Powerade!
Coca cola!
Nike!
Adidas!
Gatorade!
These famous brands make the team more famous because Gatorade and Nike they are famous
brands and that makes the team more high level with the sponsors. The sponsors also help the
team get more famous because if a lot of people know the sponsor like Nike then they would want
to see the team play.!

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Salary
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Some of the players cost more than others, because some players are better than others, so that
means that the better the players cost more. One of the best players is Navarro so he must cost
more than one of the worst players in Barcelona like . For your information none of the players are
not so bad. The players cost about 1000 euros each. Navarro gets around 20 million euros in 5
years and Lebron James gets at least 20 million dollars.!
The money that the team makes between each year is at a range of 50,000 millions and euros . It
all depends on the league the team is on, how good the team played and what rank the team got in
the league.!

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Uniform
Every team has two or three different uniforms. That is because if the teams had similar
uniforms, the players would pass to the wrong players. That would not be good because if
they pass to the other team and the other player knows that he is not in his team he could
score in the other basket. That is why there is different colors on the uniforms. !

Their home and away kit are the same on the style only, they have different colors. The
home kit is dark blue and garnet. Barcelonas away kit is red and yellow. The home kit can
also be used for away if the other team has a similar kit. The Barcelona basketball team
shares the same colors as the soccer. The shoes are different from the soccer shoes
because the soccer shoes have spikes on the bottom and the basketball shoes have the
back off the shoes pretty high. The shorts in basketball are really long, not like in soccer, in
soccer the shorts are shorter.!

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Glossary
zone = type of defense!
man to man = another type of defense!
Full-court pressure = this is when the other team trying to take !
Salary = the amount of money the players get!
Uniform = what players wear during matches and trainings!
base = position in basketball!
pivot = another position in basketball!
eaves = another position in basketball!
slam dunk = slam dunk is when!
Defense = When you try to stop the other team from scoring!
Offense = When you try to score in the other teams basket !
League = League is where teams play !