Prior Posts Primarily on SLOBs

Winning 'special situations' like BOBs, SLOBs, and ATOs often separates success and failure in close games. Let's review. 

1) Get the ball in safely. We all remember games lost by inability to enter the ball. Develop and inbounder with vision, strong decisions, and execution.

2) Be aggressive. Never let the defense rest.

3) Movement kills defense

4) Get the ball in your scorers' hands. 

Some 'sets' run equally well as SLOBs. 

A pair of SLOBs. Choose one you like. This has potential with a 'short clock'. 

A fistful of SLOBs. We've won several with this. 

Use multiple options. The girls improvised off a zipper entry into a give-and-go and roll. 

Or this "Iverson" and "Elevator" (sounds like McCartney's 'Ebony and Ivory')

"Great offense is multiple actions." Break this Lakers' play down as - Z - I - E

1) Zipper action to inbound

2) Iverson cut to clear the inbounder  

3) Elevator screen for shot or two-man game

Steal from Stevens. 

 SLOB packages from Brad Stevens' Celtics 

Ideas for SLOBs versus 2-3 zone.

 

SLOB game winners. 

This 'corner rip' action of sequential screens gets high quality shots. 

Lagniappe. Tips and Traps on inbounding:

• Know the situation. You can 'run the baseline after a made basket.' 
• For BOBs and SLOBs, plays start as the ref hands the ball to the passer. 
• "Fake a pass to make a pass." That includes ball fakes and looking off defenders. Use peripheral vision. 
• Do NOT inbound behind the backboard.
• Do NOT telegraph the pass. 
• Teammates: "finish your cuts" so not fake out the passer.
• Don't stand too close to the boundary...unless you're in the rare situation of trying to draw a violation (touch) from a defender encroaching on that space. 
• Be patient. The first option may not be the best or intended one (see below)
• Develop an inbounder that you trust with decisions and execution. 
• With younger players, the simpler the better.