The Barcelona Handoff Pick and Roll Play utilizes a couple of screens and cuts for potential scoring chances with the ultimate action being a dribble handoff for a scoring opportunity. The players start out as shown, with 1 player at each elbow and 1 player in each corner. The point guard is at the top. O1 passes to O4 at the elbow and then uses a backscreen from O5 and cuts to the basket. O4 can make the pass to O1 if open. If O1 was not available on the cut to the basket, O4 will pass … [Read more...]
4-Out, 1-In Iso Play
This is a play to isolate a player from a 4 Out-1 In set. It gets you some misdirection away from the iso-side, a ball screen, and a staggered double. This can be run out of transition or it can be run as a set play at anytime. Our best slasher/scorer runs the trailer spot, so we are able to run it straight from transition without moving people to different spots. 1 passes to 5 and face cuts to the wing. 3 sets a baseline screen for 2 to sprint and clear the right side of the floor. 4 will … [Read more...]
Double Stack Offense
The double-stack offense is not some type of continuity (though you can certainly reset at any point) ... it's usefulness is in creating quick and open shot opportunities. If the initial action does not result in a shot attempt, simply progress into your offensive system. The first diagram below illustrates how the double-stack offense starts in the middle, rather than out on the perimeter. After the initial movements from the double-stack set, space is created to spread the defense. This … [Read more...]
Florida Triple Double Play
This basketball play is so named because it incorporates 3 double screens in quick succession to create an open shot opportunity. This is a tough one to defend. Players set up as shown in above diagram. As O1 nears crosses midcourt and nears the top of the key, O2 curls over the top of a double screen being set by O4 and O5. O1 will make the pass to O2 if open. If O2 didn't receive the pass, O3 will then cut to the wing using a double screen from O4 and O5. O1 makes the pass to O3. As O3 … [Read more...]
L.A.
This simple to run play can create a layup from a give-and-go or a 3-point attempt off of a downscreen. It's a great play to create a shot for a perimeter player while making his defender work hard to cover. Players set up as shown in the above diagram. L.A. is initiated by a wing pass from O2 to O5. After making the pass, O2 runs a give-and-go by setting up his defender the other way and then rubbing him off of O3. O5 can make the pass to O2 if open. O4 and O1 screen for each other to keep … [Read more...]
Ohio
This quick hitter includes several screening actions, culminating in a flex screen/cut for a layup. Players set up as shown, O1 has the basketball. O2 dives down toward low ballside block and then exchanges with O4. O1 passes to O2. As O2 leaves the top, O5 cuts to the elbow. Once O2 has the basketball, O5 sets a backscreen for O1. O4 pops out to the corner. O1 sets a flex screen for O3 who cuts into the lane. O2 looks to make the pass inside to O3 for the layup or quick post move and … [Read more...]
Maccabi Middle Pick-and-Roll Play
This set play is a simple way to get your point guard in position to run the middle pick-and-roll with a low post player. The action prior to the on-ball screen helps to move the defensive players so they can't simply key on defending the pick-and-roll. The offensive players set up as shown in the diagram. O1 initiates the play by passing to O4 at the top. O4 immediately reverses the basketball to O2 and cuts through to the short corner. If O4 is open on the cut, the pass can certainly be made … [Read more...]
Giving Your Post Options to Enhance Your Side Ball Screen Action
Introduction The side ball screen has become a very popular action in today's game (for me, it's even over used). Many teams are doing the side ball screen in the swing, motion, secondary, sets, and every other imaginable offense. As more and more teams use this, you need to have some wrinkles to use when teams wise up and start to defend it by using defensive looks such at Coach Tony Barone's “Blue” where the post drops to the block and the player on the ball pushes the dribble back to the … [Read more...]
Tap the Head Basketball Play
This set play starts with a dribble hand-off and an on-ball screen to create misdirection and dribble-drive opportunity. Executed well, it allows for penetration right down the lane. In this set we are looking for (1) to drive the ball towards (2) on the right wing. As (1) is driving (2) will look to come "over the top" and receive a dribble hand off from (1). Meanwhile (5) is looking to step out above the 3-point line to set a screen for (2) who is coming right back around to the left … [Read more...]
Scariola Mid Pick-and-Roll Play
The first in a series of International Set Plays from Coach Hardin, the Scariola Mid Pick-and-Roll is a play that creates a pick-and-roll from a 2-3 High offensive set. The Scariola Mid Pick-and-Roll Play is run from a 2-3 High set, as shown in the above diagram. The point guard, O1, initiates the play by passing to the ballside wing, O4. After passing, O1 cuts through and into the lane or weakside block area. O2 executes a v-cut to replace O1 at the top. O4 passes the basketball to O2, now … [Read more...]