Thursday, April 2, 2020

Basketball: Great Sets - Master a Handful and Kill Your Darlings



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.


A game proven BOB, cutting with screening creates opportunity. 

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. 



Horns PnR across, adjust roles to your personnel.



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


Iverson 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