basketball acceleration

Here is me playing some basketball against Punahou. When playing one-on-one, or even in a game, the use of acceleration is key to beating your defender. Acceleration is change in velocity, meaning change in speed of direction. To beat your defender, going from a steady pace and changing your speed to a sprint will catch your defender off guard. A velocity graph would show a short steady line and then have a constant upward slope as my speed increases, also it will have a positive slope because I am moving foward while speeding up. My position graph would have a curved line getting a steeper slope and my accleration graph would have a straight line above the x-axis because I would have positive acceleration. Also, staying lower than your defender is another key because you will have a lower center of gravity, resulting in quickness.