The objective on offense is to score. There are different amount of points that you can score on offense at one time. The highest amount is three points, but there are exceptions on how you can score higher than three.
On offense there are five positions. All of them are important to the offense. The positions are point-guard (pg), shooting-guard (sg), shooting-forward (sf), power-forward (pf), and center (c).

While on offense players shoot, pass, dribble, and rebound, but at all time each player is moving even if they don't have the ball.
When you have the ball there are three things you can do with it: shoot, pass, or dribble. This is called a triple threat position.

When you receive a pass, be on the balls of your feet, catch the ball in both hands, and square up to the basket. Now you're in a triple threat position.
Most basketball teams gave set plays to score on offense, but there is one play that almost all teams use which is the pick and roll.

A pick is when someone stands in the way of a teammate's defender, so his/her teammate can get free. After freeing his/her teammate with the pick, he\she rolls of the defender towards the basket.
While your team is on offense your team should be patient with the ball. They should try to work the ball to each teammate on the court before someone takes a shot.

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