Basketball Plays

Virginia Curl Stagger Pin BLOB

By Brian Williams on October 4, 2017

Today’s post is a man to man inbounds play from the Virginia Men’s Program.

The play is from The Best of Special Situations Playbook assembled by Chris Filios

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Quick note. It is difficult to get the timing for the play, but obviously, you need to set your own timing so that 2 and 4 are not in the lane for 3 seconds.

You probably won’t be able to use the play “As is” but you might be able to take a few of the actions that make up the play and use them to improve what you already do.

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2 curls around 5.

1 passes to 5.

1 cuts off 5 and receives a hand off from 1.

3 pops to the opposite wing.

4 down screens for 2.

2 curls the screen.

1 has the option to hit either 2 or 4 if open.

4 should clear the lane if he/she doesn’t receive a pass from 1.

2 and 5 set a staggered screen for 3.

4 screens for the screener (2)

The play is from The Best of Special Situations Playbook assembled by Chris Filios

It is combined with the Ultimate Matchup Zone Defense as this week’s featured playbook bundle.

You can find out more about the playbooks at this link: Best of Special Teams and Ultimate Matchup Zone Playbooks

If you have any questions or would like to call in or text an order, you can do so at ‪317-721-1527.

Zone Flash and Zone Overload

By Brian Williams on September 27, 2017

Today’s post contains two quick hitting plays that you can run against a 2-3 zone defense.

Adjust these sets to fit your players and philosophy and/or take bits and pieces to combine with what you already run.

These plays are from The NCAA Best Zone Plays Playbook.

You can find out more about the playbooks at this link: Best NCAA Man to Man and Zone Sets

Florida Gulf Coast Zone Flash

4 moves in to the middle of the zone.

1 dribbles left and passes to 3.

3 passes back to 1 and 4 moves to the right elbow.

1 passes to 4 causing x5 to move up and x3 to dive in front of 5.

5 then pins x3 in.

4 passes to 3 for a shot.

As x3 closes out, 5 may be open inside.

Farleigh Dickinson Zone Overload Ball Screen

2 runs to the corner and 5 sets a ball-screen for 1.

The idea is to get x2 and x4 shifted towards the ball leaving 2 in the corner for a shot.

These plays are from The NCAA Best Zone Plays Playbook.

You can find out more about the playbooks at this link: Best NCAA Man to Man and Zone Sets

Dana Altman Spread Elbow Hand Off

By Brian Williams on September 13, 2017

Today’s post contains two quick hitting plays that you can run against man to man defense out of a spread alignment.

Adjust these sets to fit your players and philosophy and/or take bits and pieces to combine with what you already run.

The plays are from The Encyclopedia of the Spread Offense Playbook assembled by Chris Filios.

It is combined with the Best of Special Situations as this week’s featured playbook bundle. The playbook contains 210 basketball plays from 40 different NCAA teams.

You can find out more about the playbooks at this link: Best of Special Teams & Encyclopedia of the Spread Offense

You can make adjustments to the fakes, the hand offs, or have 5 keep the ball and drive him or herself.

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Dana Altman Spread Elbow Hand Off

Spread set.

1-4 are interchangeable pieces.

1 passes to 2.

5 back screens for 4 to ball side block.

4 fills out to corner.

5 sets shuffle screen for 3.

3 curls screen to ball side block.

2 passes to 1.

1 passes to 5.

1 cuts off 5.

5 fakes hand off. (If 1 is open, you can make the hand off instead of fake)

3 fills out to corner.

2 and 4 fill up.

2 cuts off 5 for hand off.

If it is not open.

1 fills out to corner.

4 and 3 fill up.

Brad Underwood Spread Stagger Curl

1 reverses ball to 4.

4 swings to 3.

5 back screens 1 to ball side block.

4 and 5 stagger away for 2.

2 curls screen to rim.

1 fills out to corner.

After 2 curls off screen, 4 pins down for 5 to top for jumper.

The plays are from The Encyclopedia of the Spread Offense Playbook assembled by Chris Filios.

It is combined with the Best of Special Situations as this week’s featured playbook bundle. The playbook contains 210 basketball plays from 40 different NCAA teams.

You can find out more about the playbooks at this link: Best of Special Teams & Encyclopedia of the Spread Offense

European Ball Screen Actions

By Brian Williams on September 7, 2017

The Coach in these two videos is Lason Perkins.

Coach Perkins has worked at the high school, college, and semi-pro level for over 20 years.

He is currently the Head Boys Basketball Coach at Cary Academy.

He has created over 20 instructional videos and 5 books on basketball offenses.

He has built a reputation for being an expert on international offenses and styles of play.

There is sound with these videos.

Click the play arrow to view them.

These two videos are taken from the online video course by Coach Perkins called: (Click the link for more information) European Ball Screen Offense

European Ball Screen Offense Continuity

European Ball Screen Offense: Special Actions

2 Michigan State SLOBs

By Brian Williams on August 31, 2017

These 2 Sideline Inbound Plays are from Chris Filios’s Best of Special Teams Playbook.

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My hope is that you can take bits and pieces of these plays to enhance what you already do and what suits your players.

Michigan State Ball Screen Flare

1 zipper cuts to the NBA Slot of off 4 and 5.

3 inbounds the ball to 1 and makes an Iverson cut off of 5 and 2.

2 sets a ball screen for 1, then cuts off a double flare from 4 and 5.

Michigan State Lob

This is a short seconds lob play.

1 breaks out of the stack to the NBA slot

2 cuts to the ball side corner

4 curls around 4 for possible lob.

4 should shape up and be available to the ball as are 1 and 2.

Archie Miller Double Rip and Flare Pin Zone Attack

By Brian Williams on August 30, 2017

These 2 half court zone sets are from Chris Filios’s Archie Miller Dayton Flyers Playbook. Coach Miller has accepted the Job at Indiana for the upcoming season.

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My hope is that you can take bits and pieces of these plays to enhance what you already do and what suits your players.