What are the main responsibilities of the basketball center?

The main responsibilities of the center:

1, ensuring a rebound.

2. Defend the restricted area, help teammates to make up the position in time, and organize the opponent's attack inside.

3. When attacking, the center often has the opportunity to stand in the penalty area near the free throw line (this is the center of the whole attack field) to catch the ball, and needs to have good ball guiding ability to send the ball to a more suitable corner.

The above three items are the basic skills that a center should have. In the team, the center is often responsible for scoring. He is the main inside scorer, corresponding to the inside and outside small forward. Because he wants to play singles, the requirement for shooting percentage can be lower, but his shooting position is often closer to the basket, so his shooting percentage is higher than that of outside players.

Extended data:

There is a deformation of the center, which is called the outer center. The difference between him and the normal center is that his attack is mainly to shoot outside shots, and less to do singles in the restricted area.

Because the center is tall, other short people can't keep it at all, so the outside shooting can pull the opposing center out, so it is also very useful when the forward is strong. When defending, he will defend the opposing center and grab the rebound just like the average center.

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