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5 and 4 x out
2 and3 L cut to get open
1 man passes to either wing
1 UCLA cuts off 5
5 cross screens for 4
4 sprints to side pick and roll
2 comes off side pick and roll
1 comes off weak side stagger
4 rolls and screens for 3
2 penetrates and looks for wings coming off
Chalkboard Strategies To Setting a Great Ball Screen
By Brian Anglim Fundamentals First Basketball.
In the last couple of Fundamentals First Basketball Newsletters, I have been writing about developing motion offenses. A common failing (in my opinion) amongst motions coaches is utilizing the ball screen. To maximize the effectiveness of the ball screen the angle of the ball screen, timing of the action, and spacing must be perfect.
The free flowing action of motion offense does not allow teams to set up the correct spacing and angles to really take advantage of the pick and roll game. With that said, I think every coach regardless of what system they run must have some sort of ball screen set. You will find there are opponents where one of their post player’s is poor at hedging or trapping in a ball screen action. This allows you to expose that players weakness and potentially get them in trouble. I also feel like there are teams that have too much quickness where you can’t create penetration from the normal flow of the offense and a ball screen can open things up for you. As a motion coach I had a transition call and 2 set play call’s that utilized a ball screen and then allowed us to flow into our motion offense.
What I want to talk about in the next two articles are some strategic ideas of creating plays that make life difficult for the 2 defenders. The key to defending the ball screen in my mind is the screener’s defender has to offer some sort of help to allow the ball handler’s defender to recover back to his man. I want to make life difficult for that screener’s defender so he is late in getting out on the pick to hedge or trap, so that we have a great opportunity to turn the corner and get into the lane. Here are four simple plays that put stress on the hedging defender.
Below we have a simple diagram of a down/cross screen but we really aren’t trying to get the cutter open (player 5) for a shot, rather make it difficult for X5 to be able to get into position to get on the high side shoulder of the pick and hedge. With the screen diagrammed below X5 has to under the screen, or he would be very susceptible to the curl cut. He thus can’t get out on the floor and help on the ballhandler attacking the paint.
Here is another play where we have the post player’s execute a diagonal down screen. The reason I really this is that I would have 4 coming down to act as if he is going to pick for 1, but he is really faking the pick and slipping down the lane to ball screen. This creates confusion for X4 and doesn’t really allow him to get into position to help bump 5 cutting up to set the pick. i also like this because we used to have a pick and roll big man and a pick and pop big man and we would want to exchange them for different reasons.
In the action below we have 1 passing to 2 on the wing and cutting to the opposite corner (opening up the middle for the driving action). As he is cutting through the middle 5 (most likely the trailer) cuts right off his ass to get in position to set the pick. You would be surprised how much contact you can get away with when you are cutting together versus screening .
These notes are from a presentation by former Virginia Commonwealth Men’s Assistant Coach Donny Lind.
1. MAKE 2 GUARD 1 TO CREATE SCRAMBLE
2. EXPLOIT POOR DEFENDERS • GUARDS WHO “MELT” or • IMMOBILE BIGS
3. SET BALL SCREENS IN SITUATIONS WHERE IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO GUARD PROPERLY
4. CREATE “COUNTER” OPPORTUNITIES
5. CREATE A ROLE FOR UNSKILLED BIGS
WAYS TO DEFEND BALLSCREENS: • HEDGE • TRAP • LEVEL • SWITCH • DOWN • UNDER
Types of on ball screens utilized by VCU
Diagrams created with FastDraw
AREAS OF EMPHASIS:
• SPACING
• TIMING
• SCREENING ANGLE (DOWN HILL)
• USE OF SCREEN
• SPRINTING TO SCREEN/ROLL/POP
TO MAKE BALLSCREENS TOUGHER TO DEFEND:
• CREATE MOVEMENT
• USE SCREENING ACTION FIRST
Spread (Frame 1)
1 passes to 3 and sprints to opposite coner.
3 passes back to 4.
2 cuts to lane line extended.
Spread (Frame 2)
4 passes to 2.
5 ball screens for 2, then rolls.
3 lifts up to wing.
Hook (Frame 1)
4 cuts to the block.
3 cuts right off 1s butt and screens for 5.
Hook (Frame 2)
5 cuts to ball screen for 1 then rolls.
4 zipper cuts up the lane.
Baseline Runner Over (Frame 1)
1 points or yells name to determnine the runner.
2 is baseline runner off two screens.
3 goes over the top at the same time.
5 flashes to high post after 3 clears.
4 seals after screening.
1 hits 3 on wing.
Baseline Runner Over (Frame 2)
5 sets wing ball screen for 3.
1 and 2 space on weak side.
3 penetrates to free throw line.
5 pops.
4 ducks in from weak side block.
This quick hitting play is from a Xavier University Basketball Coaching Newsletter.
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Xavier Basketball Coaching Newsletter
At the bottom of the page, I have listed some more links to other man to man set plays.
Play starts with a dribble handoff between #1 and #3.
#1 continues off baseline stagger from the bigs.
#4 sets a backscreen for #3 after the ball is reversed.
The ball goes all the way to #1 on the opposite wing.
#4 sets flare for #2 then immediately sprints to set the second screen in the staggered sideline ballscreen.
#5 (the first screener) will roll hard to the basket. #4 the second screener will pop to the corner.
This idea is from Mike McNeill’s coachesclipboard.ca site:
Ball screens in the middle of the floor can be very effective against zone defenses because, like good ball movement and screening action, they can force defenders out of their area of coverage.
I have included some other resources of ways to attack a 2-3 zone defense. below. The diagrams are links to other pages on this site.
In the first diagram, the ball-handler, O3, turns the corner and attacks the lane because X2 does not come over to stop penetration.
X2 stays matched up on O1, and as O2 turns the corner, X5 and X3 step up to stop penetration which opens up O2 on the wing for an uncontested 3 pt. shot.
In this diagram,, as O1 comes off the ball screen, X2 steps over to stop the penetration.
This opens up the pass to O3 for a shot. If X4 is able to stop O3’s shot, then a pass to O2 in the corner creates an open shot.
The videos are sample videos. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE ANYTHING TO SEE THE VIDEO SAMPLES
Coach K. 2-1-2 Zone Attack The videos aer sample videos. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE ANYTHING TO SEE THE VIDEO SAMPLES This is a very short segment of a DVD from Coach K showing him coaching his 2-1-2 or 2-3 zone attack in practice. The point he makes that I like is that we all need to have some type of misdirection in our zone attack. He makes the point dealing with a misdirection dribble for individuals, but in my opinion, we need to have some misdirection in our passing principles as a team as well when we attack a 2-3 zone.
Five–The videos are sample videos. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE ANYTHING TO SEE THE VIDEO SAMPLES Set play to run against a zone defense. The link will take you to a page on the Championship Productions web site. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the video of this play. The play forces the zone to guard three movements–a basket cut, a flex type screen, and a staggered double for a shooter.
