1. The 10 Seconds Prior To Receiving
This stage is all about creating as many pictures as possible. Understand the developing situation, where everyone is positioned, potential space, gaps and opposition weaknesses. Call this the war strategy phase if you like. Hover around the space you’re going to attack but hold off until the last moment.
2. The 2 seconds Prior To Receiving
When the time is right, attack free spaces or gaps in the defence that you spotted earlier on. In this phase, one more scan should take place, but this is primarily to understand how much space you will have once actually receiving.
3.1. Receiving In Space
On the ball with time to play, you want to be as progressive as you possibly can. Use the pictures created from earlier to help speed up your on-ball scanning process and find the best option available as early as possible. The context missing from the post is that this may well be a dribble. We have decision-making pathways that we use with professional players on our analysis services to greater break this down.
3.2. Receiving Under Pressure
Attention turns to maintenance of possession in this situation. Therefore, while using pictures created earlier, you should aim to play the first safe option available and then move again to try receive with more space. There are other options here and furthermore, once you know the rules it becomes easier to break them more effectively after. That said, this is as simplified as we can make the scanning process without caveats.
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