Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Basketball: Misdirection to Score

Where's the joy? Everyone finds joy in different experiences. If solitary activity brings you the most satisfaction, then why play team sports? I celebrate variety. 


Relative to other NBA teams, Golden State scores a higher percentage of points in transition and off cutting. Why not copycat success? 




"...what the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes." 

The movie Swordfish emphasizes "misdirection" as a critical tool. Use misdirection to 'steal' points. Simple works well. 

Ryan Pannone shares here:
Carla Berube's Tufts' women use misdirection out of a spread formation



The same action (below), triggered out of 1-4 with a middle dribble into a reverse pivot provides good deception. 


Another example of misdirection during a 2-3 zone:


Attacking the front of the zone and passing against the grain opens the corner. 


The Spurs ran a set to isolate the 5 and set up a middle backdoor cut from a 1-4 set. 


Another BOB we've worked sends bigs away to back screen into screen-the-screener action away. 

Lagniappe: This GSW game winner SLOB is reminiscent of Dame Lillard's three but with additional screening (via Tony Miller @ FastModelSports.com) 


Lagniappe: the first 14:23 of the video, Rick Carlisle reviews (his) footwork for threes, including dealing with flybys and sidestep threes. 




Lagniappe 2: Horns actions from Coach Lason Perkins