Thursday, June 24, 2021

Basketball: Xs and Os, What About BOBs (Special Situations) and More

Scoring differential on special situations makes a difference. I recently shared SLOBs that play. As a follow-on, here are some baseline out of bounds (BOBs) plays. At the end of each practice, we play "3 possession games" (O-D-O, offense-defense-offense) that mostly begin with BOBs or SLOBs.

Some coaches prefer to run different actions from similar sets (e.g. Box) or similar actions from different sets. Only imagination constrains us. 

1. Triangle Slip


"Triangle" in its many iterations creates a "four low" against three defenders. At the least, a perimeter open shot becomes available. 

2. 14 Curl 


"Empty and fill." Empty, cut, and curl

3. 15


We had a dynamic post player and 15 created an inside pick-and-roll option. Here's another option (below).



4. WHAM (Pentucket) 


Screen the middle of the zone. If the zone low defender stays home, you create a wide-open corner 3. Our HS team got burned in the post-season by this play. 

5. "Four"


We scored five times in one game with this action. 4 fakes the backscreen and gets a screen from the 5 (screen-the-screener). I remind defenders, "bigs away come back into play." 

6. Tiger (and Cub...slip)


Tiger creates multiple options off the backscreen. 

Lagniappe. From Missouri? "Show me." We scored off "Lion" a variation of Tiger aligned along the opposite lane line. Our "big gun" was the decoy and the slip paid dividends. 


Lagniappe 2. Everyone wants "Curry Range." Work on it.