Nuggets Pistol
01/17/2016The Pistol action is a common NBA early offense set that tries to create switches and mismatches with frequent screens in a congested and tight area on the wing. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawThe Pistol action is a common NBA early offense set that tries to create switches and mismatches with frequent screens in a congested and tight area on the wing. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawA very quick pistol action out of early offense, the point guard attacks hard to the rim and the hammer screen either opens up the rim on his drive or an open three pointer in the corner. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawGreat action from Mike Budenholzer for Kyle Korver. Shooter starts away from the busy action, and the chaos on the strong side causes the help defenders to focus on something other than the shooter. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawTurning motion weak into a ball screen is an excellent counter for teams that anticipate the cross-down action. It clears out an entire side of the court for the roll man to turn hard to the rim and look to finish. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawThe pitch series is difficult to defend because usually the man defending the trailer is too far off the point of the handoff to give any type of resistence. The natural counter when a defender starts to meet the trailer high is for that trailer to swing the ball to the side and run straight into a side ball screen. The Pistons have run this action for Ersan Ilyasova this season. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawA nice quick hitter out of the pitch series is for a guard-to-guard pitch at the top of the key and then an alley ball screen. Very difficult to defend if the guards either switch or stick with their assignment, and help is easy to read. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawQuin Snyder and the Utah Jazz run this great pitch into a ball screen, where the man defending the screen-setter has a difficult time providing a hedge. The guard who gives the pitch cuts straight off a down screen, which -- if hedged by the defense -- puts them in terrible position to defend the ball screen. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawThe Mike D'Antoni Knicks ran this play out of a Horns set to get Tyson Chandler a look at a lob near the rim or Carmelo a pick-and-pop three See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawThis action is a wrinkle on the popular NBA Hammer action by flooding the strong side with movement and screens. Most zipper actions are run to swing the ball across sides of the floor, so help defense will particularly fall into the trap after the zipper screen when the action returns to that strong side. That allows the hammer to be run to perfection. And with sharpshooter Danilo Gallinari as a screener, there's little opportunity to give help away from him. The Sixers help off Will Barton in the corner instead, and that allows Gallinari to get to the rim for the dunk! See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawRick Carlisle utilizes Dirk Nowitzki as a stretch-shooting big man in a variety of ways. This set has Nowitzki coming off a down screen from the point guard, which is an incredibly difficult action to defend. Defenders of point guards are not used to hedging screens, nor are big men to trailing Nowitzki through them. A switch leaves the ball in Nowitzki's hands with a smaller defender on him, and a big man guarding a point guard on an isolated side of the floor. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawNice OB Under set for the Cardinals, trying to get a post-up advantage for their 4-man who has a size advantage against Jacksonville State See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawBox set for a hi-lo from Pitino, with nice swirling action taking place around the elbows to open the lanes for both. Man trying to get the ball off the hi-lo drops after the ball screen See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawA ball screen action designed at sucking the big man help defender into the lane off the ball screen for a kick-out to the shooting big man Giga. See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawSet play to start the half from Jay Wright and Villanova vs. Wisconsin. Three-man ball screen action with a shooter replacing up the gut and a clear driving lane for a guard going to his right See More
Favorite Send to FastDrawA counter out of the Roy Williams Carolina Break and early offense, a flare for the trailer 4 that gets him into a shot when he gets hard-hedged. See More
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