Here is a set that you can use after a time out, late game situation or early offense. The ultimate goal is to get the ball inside to your post to work 1 v 1. It takes advantage of how the defense handles the intial ballscreen and is a counter when the post defender is sliding to the mid-line to help on the potential drive by the (1). It can be used vs. Man/Zone. See More
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We use a lot of ball screens in our basic offensive movement to create advantages for easy scoring opportunities. Here is a simple Box Set alignment that utilitizes downscreens and cross screens to get the defense moving before setting the ball screen at the top of the key. See More
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Here is a nice little secondary break action that gives you a isolation in the post as well as bringing a shooter off a double screen for a 3. See More
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This year we have the advantage in our Conference 3 Tournament to face some Post players that could not move very well on the perimeter. We took advantage of of our athletic Post/Stretch 4 players and put them in tough situations to constantly have to defend ball screens and play on the perimeter. Here is a nice little set that always you to also get mismatches in the scoring zones. See More
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VCU used these secondary break actions successfully in their NCAA matchup with Ohio State. Defending actions requires great awareness and communication by all five defenders, and the Rams were able to catch OSU sleeping to hit a early 3. See More
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Here is a little slip action that can be used as part of your secondary break or as an option in your motion offense. It can serve as a counter action if your set a lot of wing ball screens with the first post that arrives. See More
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With the growing amount of teams using the ball screen in today's game; we decided to implement a couple simple quick ball screen actions that were not apart of our basic ball screen movements. The Ball screen is one of the toughest actions to guard in today's game. We have found it easy to get a get quality look in the lane off our ball screen sets. I discussed in my article published in the Winning Hoops Magazine (Sept./Oct. Edition) -"Using Ball Screens in your Motion Offense" that we generally use our ball screen actions after we get the defense moving. See More
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Here is a counter that we use for "Drag". We try to create a decoy action with the dribble handoff to get the defense to show their coverage. See More
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As we keep trying to improve our offensive efficiency, more and more teams are moving towards using ball screens to create scoring opportunities. At Varina we use various alignments to put the defense in a situation to limit what they can do help-side wise to defend our quick game. This is a action we use out of our 1-4 set in late game situations to get a quick shot. See More
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Here is another play for our 1-4 High Set that we like to use and play a 2-man game on the strong side. See More
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Here is a quick hitter that Buffalo used early in the first half against Miami that lead to the getting a wide open three. They did a great job out of the 1-4 set at creating space for quick penetration or the kick for three. See More
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Coach Jim Larranaga wants to play up-tempo and score in transition. This year they have concentrated more on getting the ball inside the paint more. Even though it has a modern day (4 Out) look it still has an old fashion (inside-out) approach to basketball. To execute this plan they use a variety of ball screen type action and roll/replace concepts. Having a very good point guard that can drive and shoot makes this tough to defend. See More
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1 passes to 3, 2 cuts off 5 man through the key to the basket then empties out to ballside corner 5 screens opposite elbow, 4 cuts off to ballside block, 1 relocates 3 looks to pass directly to 5, or to 1 who passes to 5 1 cuts off 5 for a handoff, 3 rotates up to the slot, 2 rotates to wing, 4 rotates to corner 1 looks to turn corner off handoff, if not then dribble drags to corner, 5 rolls to ballside block, 3 rotates to ballside slot, 2 rotates to opposite slot, 4 rotates to wing 1 looks to 5 or reverses to 3 who looks to 5 For continuity of the offense, 3 looks to pass to 4 or retreat dribbles and passes to 1 If ball is passed to 4, 3 cuts to basket then empties out to ballside corner, 5 screens opposite elbow, 1 pops to wing 5 screens opposite elbow, 1 cuts to ballside block, 2 relocates See More
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Today's play of the day is a little quick action that can be used in a 4 Around 1 set. Use this simple action with great timing to get an open shot off the ball screen or high/low action. See More
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Today's Fastdraw Play of Day is a sideline out of bounds set that can be used after a timeout and/or late game situations. Use this simple action with great timing and spacing to get a late game high percentage shoot. See More
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