Find clinical pearls from Coach Adam Spinella (Virtual Coaches Clinic) who shares his work on ATO principles. For example, sticky concepts include:
- Do we design generic or team-specific attacks?
- Create highly efficient shots out of ATOs.
- Do we target primary scorers or get a secondary scorer going?
We have a love-hate relationship with Xs and Os, as Coach K notes, "you have to make plays, not run plays."
The origins of offense...
(We always spent 15-20 minutes per practice on Special Situations during an O-D-O segment.)
("It depends." Unpracticed actions require higher BBIQ which isn't suitable for every group.
(No excuses...we practiced that.)
Adam points out that adaptation increases BBIQ (maybe). If we give players more freedom, as coaches "own it."
We can't copy GSW because we don't have that talent. "Get the most efficient shot." He points out that disguise has value against good scouting.
It doesn't have to be rocket science. The Jazz set a backscreen/UCLA action for a Gobert dunk (above the key)... Adam points out that it also would work out of Princeton "Chin" type sets.
He shows a wrinkle to disguise the action out of elbow entry.
Obviously you can set up the stagger in different ways. But the timing is critical for the corner backdoor cut. 5 runs a fake DHO as part of the deception.
The Grizzlies use a staggered screen into a pass back against the grain to set up Ja Morant for a backdoor cut.
Spinella's YouTube Channel has high quality video.
Here they disguise backdoor action out of an Iverson cut with an elbow entry. Note how Morant's hard cuts establishes separation.
Defending the ATOs correlates with winning.
Utah excelled at defending the ATO, by far the best in the NBA.
Adam Spinella YouTube channel
Adam Spinella Twitter @Spinella14
Lagniappe: Teams will "look" for your best player. Change it up.
Elite players draw a crowd. In this ATO BOB, the LION (screener) slips and scores. Everyone collapses on 24.
The design gives the screener choice over whom to screen. We went three for three on ATOs in this game, a three-point win.