Be like orcas. Apex predators run winning plays. "Great offense is multiple actions."
What do we struggle to defend? Keep your list of hard-to-defend actions.
- Great drivers
- Sharp cuts including back door
- Pick-and-roll
- Off-ball screens
- Staggered screens
- Screen-the-screener
Distill this to cutting, simple and complex screens, and isolation.
Develop a playbook of these actions, then ruthlessly edit. If we struggle to defend these, they'll probably be hard for opponents. Understanding how defense works helps us.
Cutting
Spread give-and-go. As x1 jumps to the ball, fake and go behind.
Back door cuts
Carla Berube took actions like this from Tufts to Princeton.
PnR into a corner back cut.
Ball screens. Make then different and unexpected.
High ball screen planned corner 3. 4 has to be prepared to drift up.
Off-ball screens/mismatches
If you have the dominant post player, flaunt it.
The Bucks have a nuclear option with the "Greek Freak."
Staggered screens
Iverson cut out of box set
Traditional Iverson cut
Screen-the-screener
BOB backscreens into STS action (we scored five layups in one game).
Horns Spain PnR (Screen the roller)
SLOB Zipper entry into zipper screener STS
The sixty-four dollar question is how much time to allocate to technique and tactics, the "prime cut" versus "cinematic tricks."
Lagniappe:
Set high expectations.
Lagniappe 2: Shooting conditioning drill from TeachHoops
