When can a basketball player "press" in basketball?

when ever

In most leagues Pro, college, high school, etc. a press can be run at any time during a game. With the exception of some youth leagues. The purpose of the press is mainly used by teams who: 1. Don't want to allow a patient offense the opportunity to set up, hoping to throw them off out of their comfort zone, 2. To put pressure on a team who may have difficulty handling the ball, in order to jump out on them early, setting the tempo and momentum in pressing teams favor, or 3- to try and pressure a team into making mistakes in order for you to get back into a game where you might be down near the end.

Hope this helps.

Coach Tim,

www.simply-youth-basketball.com

Playing a full court press on defense is a very physically draining defensive approach.

It might be effective, but by playing a press, you'll pretty much exhaust your entire team in 10minutes.

The NBA season is a looooooong one...Players and their energy levels have to be preserved, so any full court press is usually only used when its absolutely necessary.

Whenever the player/s want to.

But common times when players do is in the 4 th quarter or the team they're on is losing.

whenever they want to...