In a Need 3 situation last night to keep their winning streak alive, the Miami Heat ran this play to get Ray Allen an open three. However, the Chicago Bulls sniffed it out and forced him to take a tought two off the dribble. See More
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The Vanderbilt Commodores had a rebuilding year with no Senior in the starting line-up. But, Head Coach Kevin Stallings did a fine job with this squad and they played some of their best basketball at the end of the season. Here is a look at an Early Offense they ran in the SEC Tournament last week against Arkansas. See More
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For this play you have to have a point guard that is a shooting threat coming off of the pin down. If your point guard is not a shooter, you can still run this play by bumping down 3, and not giving him a hand off. Practice with your 2 to properly use the flare screen, and have your 4 practice making the pass to 2 off of the flare screen. This play is from the 2010-2011 Houston Rockets season. See More
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An action to try and create an advantage on the backside of the zone. Shift the zone on the first pass and then overload the backside while creating a lane for 1 to create a shot. See More
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On Sunday afternoon in the SEC Championship game, Ole Miss Head Coach Andy Kennedy called out this action in their remarkable comeback victory versus the Florida Gators. See More
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Sam Houston State 1-4 High Set with a nice double flare screen action for the shooter See More
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Aside from having an extremely talented offensive player like Carmelo Anthony, the biggest reason that the Knicks rank third in the NBA in scoring efficiency is the beautiftul playbook that Mike Woodson has assembled. Granted, a lot of the stuff the Knicks run today comes straight out of Mike D'Antoni's scheme - in fact, I think New York runs more of D'Antoni's stuff than the Lakers do - but Woodson deserves a ton of credit for how he has handled the offense this season. Here is a play that New York occasionally runs in semi-transition or in the half-court. It is a high staggered triple screen that takes advantage of New York's staple offensively: a stretch four. Usually, that player is Carmelo, but in this particular example, with Melo out with an injury, Steve Novak assumes the role of a stretch four. The staggered triple screen action has a pair of pick-and-pops and a pick-and-roll to cap it off that can send the defense scrambling to find their assignments and put them in a poor position to defend in the case of a mismatch or good ball rotation. When the Knicks ran it against the Cavs a couple of days ago, Cleveland got all out of place following Novak at the three-point line and left Amare wide open on the roll for an easy dunk. See More
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Efes Pilsen, now known as Anadolu Efes, is a professional basketball team in Turkey that competes in the Euroleague. This set is from the 2009 season. It's designed to take advantage of a good shooting point guard. See More
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A set Denver ran against New Mexico State to get a post touch. There are a lot of options to score with the flare/slip, post up, then the Kansas backscreen. See More
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This is a good SLOB play with multiple options and reads. You want to have your best guard taking the ball out that way he has the option to cut off the back screen or refuse the back screen and get a hand off. Once you have burned the team off of the back screen you have the counter action to have the guard taking the ball out of bounds to use the hand off with the same weakside flare action. See More
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This play is from the 2010-2011 Houston Rockets season. For this play to be successful you have to have a bigger guard, or a post that can pass from the high post. Your 2 man has to act like he is cutting to the opposite corner and using 5 as a screen. Your 5 has to post hard so he is occupying his defender. You have to make sure that you utilize the weak side flare action so there is no help side defense coming from 4's man when 2 curls. See More
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Down four to the #2 ranked Kansas Jayhawks on the road in the Phog with just over four minutes left, Oklahoma State head coach Travis Ford called a play for his 5'11" (and that is generous) freshman point guard that was previously 0-for-6 from deep to get a three-point look. Naturally. The Cowboys put the Freshman point guard in a number of screen situations, with the end result being a three-pointer that Forte nailed to bring the Cowboys within one. It was this shot by Forte that sprung OSU's run down the stretch, resulting in one of the rarest things in college sports: A Jayhawks loss in Phog Allen Fieldhouse. And it was all thanks to some great play design, patience and execution by the Cowboys in a very tough environment. See More
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Set Play ran by the Kennesaw State Owls in their match-up against Mercer Kennesaw State shows a lot of patience on offense and does a good job running their sets A member of the Atlantic Sun Conference, they don't get a lot of attention, but Coach Preston's team is fun to watch See More
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During the 2002 World Championships, the New Zealand national team finished 4th in the tournament. This was a set utilized by them. See More
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No player in NBA history has ever been more criticized for his late game play than LeBron James. Anytime he passes the ball in a close game, people begin to question whether or not he has the mental fortitude to be a winner. Thankfully, LeBron won a title last season and now all of that talk is gone. Now we can start appreciating his unselfish play in crunchtime, which is a good thing for all basketball fans. Here is a play that the Heat used down four to the Toronto Raptors in overtime last week that I call Horns Flare. Miami is going to utilize every player on the court in some way or another and the end result of the play is a wide open three for Ray Allen, which is probably the best outcome you can think of in a close game. See More
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