• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

  • Basketball Plays
    • Ball Screen Sets
    • Horns Sets
    • Man to Man Post Up
    • Man to Man Isolations
    • Backdoor Plays
    • Man to Man 3 Point Shot Plays
    • 2-3 Zone Attack
    • Baseline Inbound Plays
    • Sideline Inbound Plays
    • Combination Defense Attack
  • Drills
    • Defensive Drills
    • Offensive Drills
    • Competitive Drills
    • Passing Drills
    • Rebounding Drills
    • Shooting and Scoring Drills
    • Toughness Drills
    • Transition & Conversion Drills
    • One on One Drills
  • Blueprint
  • Practice
  • Mental Toughness
  • Skill Development
  • Offense
  • Defense
  • Store

Basketball Plays Attacking Traps and Mismatches

By Brian Williams on April 7, 2014

Basketball Plays Attacking Traps and Mismatches

A couple of plays from the Arizona Men’s Basketball Coaching Newsletter.

One of the actions is a way to deal with teams that double team your low post player.

The second action is a way to attack perimeter switches that are mismatches that you can take advantage of.

Even if these sets don’t work for your personnel, I hope it gives you some inspiration as to how you can take advantage of these situations when they occur against you.

If you are interested in joining their monthly newsletter list, please email me your:

1) Name
2) email address
3) Coaching Position
4) School or team

and I will pass it on to their staff.

The newsletter comes out once each month at the beginning of the month.

Diagrams created with FastDraw

Attacking a Post Trap

baskteball-plays-post-trap1

Run this and similar actions when you face teams that trap the post or if you have an exceptional post player who is trapped.

5 screens 3 to the wing.

1 hits 3 and cuts to the corner.

4 and 2 are spaced on the opposite side wing.

baskteball-plays-post-trap2

As the ball is fed to the post and the defense traps the post, utilize the player being guarded by the trapper (#4) to screen the defender guarding the shooter (X2)

 

 

 

baskteball-plays-post-trap3

2 moves to a spot where 5 can get him the ball by throwing out of the trap.

 

 

 

 

Attacking a Perimeter Switch/Mismatch

basketball-plays-perimeter-switch1

#1 dribbles to the right side deep elbow.

#4 screens #2 into an on ball screen for #1

 

 

 

basketball-plays-perimeter-switch2

The purpose of the ball screen is to create a switch betwwen X2 and X1

2 quickly sprints out of the screen.

 

 

 

basketball-plays-perimeter-switch3

 

5 ballscreens for 2.

The left side of the floor is clear if 2 rejects the screen.

 

 

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Related Posts:

  • The Best Deals
  • Scouting Checklist: Inside the Scouting Report
  • Best Gifts For Basketball Coaches & Trainers for 2020
  • Seven Key Principles For Coaching Youth Basketball
  • Attacking Full Court Pressure

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Chris Narcisse says

    April 7, 2014 at 10:50 am

    Would like to receive the Arizona basketball newsletter. I am an assistant Varsity Boys basketball coach and a skill development trainer.

    Thanks

    Coach Chris

  2. williab83 says

    August 14, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    We’ll get your info added. Thanks!

  3. Chad Hall says

    March 28, 2015 at 11:25 am

    i would like to be added to the newsletter. I coach Varsity girls basketball in TN.

  4. Marten Scheepstra says

    March 30, 2015 at 3:27 am

    I would like to recieve the Arizona Basketball newsletter.
    I am headcoach of the Basketball Academy Zwolle, the Netherlands

  5. Pete Conrad says

    March 30, 2015 at 8:24 am

    I’d like to receive the Arizona newsletter. I’m boys basketball coach at Palmyra HS in PA.

  6. Coach Wall says

    March 30, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    I would like to receive the Arizona Newsletter as well.

  7. williab83 says

    April 18, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    Can you give me your school and your coaching level? They request that information. Thanks.

  8. williab83 says

    April 18, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    Hi Pete, I have you on the list to send to Arizona–Brian

  9. williab83 says

    April 18, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    Hi Chad, can you let me know what school you coach at, and I will pass it along to Arizona. Thanks!

  10. Paul Krick says

    March 13, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Please add me to the Arizona newsletter
    Head girls basketball coach at Lyons Township HS

  11. Christian Erickson says

    May 9, 2016 at 11:57 am

    I’d like to be added to the Arizona newsletter. Assistant Girls basketball coach Moorhead MN

  12. Markus Taylor says

    November 14, 2016 at 8:25 am

    I would like to get news letter. Head coach at Stewart County High School Ga.Thanks

  13. Roy Williams says

    November 14, 2016 at 8:39 am

    Yes sir, would like to be added.

  14. ralph almanza says

    November 14, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Please add me as well

    [email protected]
    head boys basketball
    bellville, tx

  15. Brian Hill says

    November 14, 2016 at 11:45 am

    I would like the Arizona newsletter. Varsity Girls Basketball coach Bay Village, Ohio

  16. Kevin Menke says

    November 14, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    I would like the Arizona Newsletter, Varsity Boys coach at Wood Memorial HS.

  17. Brian Johnson says

    October 21, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    I’m want to receive your newsletter. Head JV Coach Edmondson- Westside High School. Baltimore, Maryland

  18. Mack Culpepper says

    October 21, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    I would like to be added to and receive Arizona newsletter. Head basketball coach, Oneonta Boys and GIrls Club, Oneonta, New York

  19. Jim Stohlmann says

    December 18, 2017 at 4:49 pm

    Would greatly appreciate being added to the Newsletter list.

    Walden Grove High School (Sahuarita, AZ)
    Head Coach
    Men’s Varsity Basketball
    Twitter @coach_stohlmann

    #BetterNeverQuits

Primary Sidebar

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Linkedin
coachestoolbox
personaldevelopmenttoolbox
basketballplayerstoolbox
basketballtrainer
athleticperformancetoolbox
coachingbasketball

© Copyright 2023 Coaching Toolbox

Design by BuzzworthyBasketballMarketing.com

Privacy Policy