Nuggets Horns Stagger Cross
02/19/2016Great counter from a Horns set into a post-up and a quick layup. Michael Malone ran this play for the Denver Nuggets See More
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Jazz Horns Shuffle Post
02/19/2016A great way to get a drop-down isolation post out of a Horns set. Lots of clutter on the initial ball side opens the opposite side for a great post-up. Good play from Quin Snyder. See More
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Nuggets Horns Flare
02/19/2016The Denver Nuggets have a great asset in Danilo Gallinari as a stretch-4. Coach Michael Malone uses him well, and this Horns set is one way in which he does. By flaring the ball screener like Gallinari, it opens up the lane completely for a drive or a slip if they pay too much attention to Gallo. See More
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Kansas Flex 1-4 Low
03/17/2016Kansas coach Bill Self runs a Flex action out of 1-4 low formation when the ball is under their own bucket. Help defense on the first Flex screen is rarely in good position when the ball is inbounded underneath, and the man guarding the inbounder can get too attached to the inbounder. It's a great way to get into Flex, especially with other inbound plays out of a 1-4 low package See More
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Austin Peay Elbow Boston
03/17/2016A great set from Austin Peay, this backdoor set gets is designed to also get a shooter coming off a double stagger to the top of the key. Great action with floor balance if no shot results See More
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Austin Peay Rice Crouch Wide
03/17/2016A wrinkle to a common screen-the-screener play that Austin Peay has run frequently this year, this play is predicated on the defense jamming the middle for the screen-the-screener action. It allows a shooter to leak out to the wing while his defender sags middle to take away the down screen. See More
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Michigan 2 Backdoor
03/18/2016A good backdoor set from John Beilein and Michigan. Dangerous for a team with several shooters, and by keeping all five players elevated, there is very little help available at the rim. See More
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Xavier Empty Backdoor
03/18/2016Dummy screens in the paint can occupy help defense while a backdoor cut occurs. Xavier uses that principle well out of a spread formation, making help defenders far too elevated to snuff out a backdoor. See More
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Bulls Lob Go-Ricky
03/29/2016Fred Hoiberg ran this re-screen action for a three pointer late in the Bulls-Hawks game on March 28th. It's a play with a re-screen (or go-ricky) above the level of the ball, a difficult action to defend for a shooter. It's a wrinkle off an old Brad Stevens inbound play. See More
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Georgetown 5 Up Backdoor
04/12/2016BLOB, or baseline out of bounds, plays are wonderful opportunities for a backdoor action because the defense gets sucked close to their man as they deny a pass towards the rim. Georgetown's John Thompson drew up this great set to get a backdoor out of a baseline inbound situation, sucking the entire defense away from the rim in order to do so. Thompson isolates the man guarding the inbounder as well, turning him into the help defender on a backdoor. As many coaches know and communicate to their players, the offensive player inbounding the ball is always dangerous once the ball gets inbounded. By paying too close attention to the inbounder, a defensive team will have no help at the rim on a backdoor cut. See More
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Golden State Warriors - Flash X Side Elevator
04/12/2016There's essentially no way to defend Stephen Curry when he runs all over the court like he does in this play. The attention that Thompson gets on the X-cut is enough to score off of an action with Curry. But when the ball skips to the opposite side and Curry cuts under Draymond Green to the baseline, it is natural for the defender to want to get between Curry and the ball -- only allowing him to get screened as Steph goes through the elevator. See More
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Denver Nuggets - Zip 2 Angle Hammer
04/12/2016This 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
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New Orleans Pelicans - Spin Rev Double
04/12/2016The ability to utilize a stretch-shooting big man is paramount in the NBA, and becoming more important in the collegiate and high school games as well. A great counter to teams that will look for the pick-and-roll or pick-and-pop, the Pelicans ran this set to get Anthony Davis a three point opportunity in the corner. They have also run it for Ryan Anderson with great success. The Spin dribble, which triggers the action to begin, allows for perfect timing of the play when Davis arrives in the corner. See More
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SFA 1-4 Clear Backscreen
04/13/2016Stephen F. Austin and coach Brad Underwood were very aware of who they were -- they had a great lead guard in Thomas Walkup. By putting the ball in his hands and making a 1-4 high set look like a clearout for him to go to his strong hand, defenses were sucked into reading the action for him. Instead of running a set to clear out on his side, Underwood ran lots of traffic through the lane, getting all four help defenders to stand in the lane at one point. When the chaos cleared, what was left was an empty weak side, a perfect opportunity for a lob at the rim. By using their best shooter as the screener, there was no opportunity for the play to be foiled. See More
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Mavs Flip Exit
05/08/2016Rick Carlisle uses this action to get an open shot for his shooters on the wings when he utilizes a two point guard lineup. See More
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