Fast break

Glenn Robinson III (#1) is the initial fast break ballhandler (left); he passes the ball to Caris LeVert (#23) (image unavailable); Levert passes the ball back to Robinson (center left); Robinson catches the alley oop pass (center right); and Robinson completes the fast break with a bank shot (right) for Michigan during its 2012–13 Big Ten Conference season opener on January 3 against Northwestern.

Fast break is an offensive strategy in basketball and handball. In a fast break, a team attempts to move the ball up court and into scoring position as quickly as possible, so that the defense is outnumbered and does not have time to set up. The various styles of the fast break–derivative of the original created by Frank Keaney–are seen as the best method of providing action and quick scores.^[1] A fast break may result from cherry picking.