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The Utah Jazz used this set during the 2021 regular season against the Los Angeles Lakers. This quick hit starts with a double screen at the top of the key. The ball handler comes off hard and drags…
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The Aggies use this set to get an open look for a shooter coming up out of an elevator screen. The right side wing is pushed through and sets a cross screen for a player on the left block. The player receiving the screen posts…
Jun 18, 2021
The Aggies used this set during their 2021 regular season. This set starts with a high set with all 4 players pulled high. The left wing sprints across the lane to get to the right side wing. Then, an…
Jun 17, 2021
This quick hit play from the Bulldogs starts in a box set and immediately the bottom two players sprint out to the wings. The point guard passes and cuts through to the opposite corner and an immediate ball screen is set on…
Jun 17, 2021
The Wolverines use this set to get a lot of movement from the defense and try to find easy openings to score. The play starts with the two players high on the left wing and pulled away from the rim. A down screen is set…
Jun 15, 2021
The Michigan Wolverines used this set during the 2021 regular season. Both post players circle low through the lane and then come high to set a high horns screen for the point guard. The strong side post player dives…
Jun 14, 2021
The Gonzaga Bulldogs used this set during their 2021 season and also used it multiple times during their 2021 NCAA Tournament run. The play starts with a dribble-hand-off on…
Jun 14, 2021
The Utah Jazz used this set during the 2021 NBA regular season. They enter the ball off the sideline and the player on the weak side flashes to the middle of the floor looking for the ball. A ball screen is set for the ball-handler…
Jun 13, 2021
The Baylor Bears used this set during their historic 2021 season. The ball handler dribbles to a wing and the other four players clear out to the weak side. The ball handler waits …
Jun 13, 2021
The Baylor Lady Bears used this set frequently during their 2021 season. The play starts with a double back screen for a cutting player. This player is the decoy in this play and immediately…
Jun 13, 2021
The Atlanta Hawks use this set to get an easy attack to the rim or to try and get the strong side defender to help in on the ball handler. As the play gets set up, the post flashes to the elbow and…
Jun 12, 2021
The Baylor Bears used this set during their 2021 Final Four run to the National Championship game. For this simple set, the point guard passes across the top and dives down to the block on the strong side. The strong side…
Jun 12, 2021
The Gonzaga Bulldogs used this set during the 2021 NCAA Men’s Final Four. The set is a simple weave action and was used multiple times throughout the tournament. Guards weave between each other…
Jun 12, 2021
The Arizona Wildcats used this set to help them push past UCONN in the 2021 Final Four. The play starts in a horns set and the point guard passes to a side. She goes over the top of the same side she makes the entry pass…
Jun 12, 2021
The Utah Jazz used this set during the 2021 regular season against the Los Angeles Lakers. This set is used against a zone and works to get an open player to flash to the middle of the floor. The ball is reversed around…
Jun 11, 2021
The NC State women’s team used this set during their 2021 season. The play starts with the point guard picking a side to pass to. She enters the ball into the right side post player and begins to cut over…
Jun 11, 2021
The Miami Heat use this play to get a quick slip to the rim in an apparent ISO situation. The ball is entered into the left side elbow and three players are stacked on the opposite elbow…
Jun 11, 2021
The Gonzaga Bulldogs were well known in their 2021 campaign for running quick hitters and playing fast down the floor. In this quick hitter, the point guard sprints up the right side of the floor to enter into a dribble-hand-off…
Jun 11, 2021
The Denver Nuggets used this set during the 2021 NBA regular season. The set starts with a screen on the left side of the court and a pass to the guard. As soon as the guard touches the ball…
Jun 11, 2021
The Miami Heat used this set to get an open shot for a three-point shooter at the top of the key. The ball is passed to the left wing and the right side wing player (the designated shooter for this set) cuts to…
Jun 11, 2021
The Seattle Storm used this set during their 2020 championship season. The play starts with a floppy action. The shooter chooses to either come off a double screen or a single screen. In this case, the shooter chooses to come…
Jun 11, 2021
The Suns like to use this set to get a quick look for Devin Booker coming off a down screen. The play starts with a high ball screen from the post, which the point guard doesn’t come hard off of. The post then sprint…
Jun 11, 2021
The Seattle Storm used this set during the 2021 season. The ball is dribbled to the up the floor quickly and a dribble-hand-off occurs between the point guard and the wing…
Jun 11, 2021
The Stanford women’s team used this set during the NCAA Final Four in 2021. It starts with an initial ball reversal into the elbow post player. The passer goes and meets another player at the elbow…
Jun 11, 2021
The Bucks use this sideline out-of-bounds play to get an open look from three at the top of the key. The set starts with a guard flashing high and getting the inbounds pass. The passer steps into the play…
Jun 11, 2021
The Clippers use this simple horns set to create a flare opportunity for a shooter. The set starts with the post and a shooter high on the extended elbows. The ball handler comes off the side of the shooters screen and…
Jun 11, 2021
The Las Vegas Aces used this set against the Seattle Storm during the 2021 season and is one of their most commonly used baseline sets. It starts in a T formation and on the slap of the ball…
Jun 10, 2021
The Las Vegas Aces use this simple set to get an easy look around the rim for their post player. It starts with a cross screen between the two post players. The post player looking to seal in the high low…
Jun 10, 2021
The Los Angeles Clippers use this set to create a ISO situation for a player on the wing. The play starts with the strong side wing clearing out to the weak side to open space up for the ball handler…
Jun 10, 2021
The Milwaukee Bucks used this set in the first round of the NBA playoffs during the 2021 season. The set starts with two players on the elbow and a flare screen set for the player Coach Budenholzer calls a screen for…
Jun 10, 2021
The Brooklyn Nets use this baseline set to get a quick open corner look from three. The play starts in a T formation and the middle player turns and sets an immediate screen for the shooter at the top of the key…
Jun 10, 2021
Doc Rivers used this play during the 2021 season with the Philadelphia 76ers. In this set, the first part of an over-under action is ran and the ball is passed to the wing. Three players then clear out to the weak side and a ball screen is …
Jun 10, 2021
The Phoenix Suns use this quick action to create a quick shot for Devin Booker in the paint. The play starts with a ball screen for the point guard and a flex screen to get Booker into the lane…
Jun 10, 2021
The Denver Nuggets use this set to create an ISO situation for their post player. As the ball moves to the left wing, Nikola Jokic sets a flex screen for a player in the corner…
Jun 10, 2021
The Salt Lake City Stars used this set in their 2020 campaign against the Iowa Wolves. This set uses a simple stagger screen to get a wide open look for a shooter. It starts with the shooter moving to the weak side…
Jun 10, 2021
The Phoenix Suns used the quick flip screen the screener action to bucket against the Atlanta Hawks. After the point guard handed the ball…
Jun 08, 2021
The Brooklyn Nets use this play to create an ISO situation for Kevin Durant near the paint. This play starts with a high post entry…
Jun 07, 2021
This set by the Chicago Bulls was used in 2021 during a regular season series against the Milwaukee Bucks. The ball is first entered into the high post and the top two players X off the ball…
Jun 07, 2021
Under Dan Hughes, the Seattle Storm were one of the most efficient teams in the 2020 season at executing sideline-out-of-bounds plays. For this set, the players start in a box…
Jun 07, 2021
The Las Vegas Aces used this set at the beginning of the 2021 WNBA season against the Seattle Storm. Watch as all the players overload the right side of the floor…
Jun 07, 2021
The Las Vegas Aces demonstrate the effectiveness of using a simple flex screen in this action. The set starts with a horns look and both of the post players high…
Jun 07, 2021
The Chicago Sky used this as one of their main sets during the 2020 season. The play starts with a pin down screen for…
Jun 07, 2021
The Washington Mystics typically use this set after a time out. The posts start high in a horns set…
Jun 07, 2021
The Seattle Storm won the WNBA Championship during the 2020 season. Dan Hughes used this set, along with many others, to lead his team to the world title…
Jun 07, 2021
The Salt Lake City Stars used this set to open a regular season game during the 2021 G-League season. The play starts with a UCLA cut off the post at the elbow…
Jun 07, 2021
The Denver Nuggets ran this play late in the NBA season against the Lakers. After the ball handler uses the double ball…
May 24, 2021
The Phoenix Suns used this play during the regular 2021 season. The action starts with a UCLA cut from the point guard…
May 20, 2021
The Northwestern Wildcats used this set to help them complete the upset of No. 4 Michigan State in 2020. The initial DHO action is used to…
May 20, 2021
The Seattle Storm execute this end-of-game play well during the 2020 WNBA regular season. The ball-handler initiates a quick DHO action…
May 20, 2021
The Northwestern Wildcats used this set to secure their first win over a AP top 5 team since 1979. The ‘Cats start with a dribble-hand-off…
May 20, 2021
The “Spain” action is frequently used in professional and collegiate basketball. The Phoenix Suns use the spain screen here to create multiple scoring options. The ball-handler…
May 19, 2021
The Seattle Storm frequently used this sideline-out-of-bounds during the 2020 WNBA regular season. The initial zipper action is used to…
May 19, 2021
During the 2020 WNBA regular season, the Seattle Storm was one of the best teams at executing sideline-out-of-bounds plays. For this play, the main scorer inbounds the ball…
May 19, 2021
The Phoenix Suns used this play during their regular season campaign in 2021. The play begins with a false cross screen action to clear out a player to the strong side. A down screen…
May 19, 2021
NC State ran this baseline out of bounds play during the second round of the 2021 NCAA tournament. Here, the screener in the…
May 07, 2021
Coach Dan Hughes ran this horns set into two stagger screens during the 2020 WNBA season. Alysha Clarke could have…
May 07, 2021
Coach Nathan Peavy called this play for his point guard to use a ball screen at the top of the key. The Salt Lake City Stars did a great job…
May 07, 2021
This simple action will quickly get the ball into the hands of your scorer. The Phoenix Suns, lead by Monty Williams…
May 07, 2021
The Northwestern Wildcats, lead by Chris Collins, burn the defense with this simple set early in their season. The screener recognized his…
May 07, 2021
Iowa used this BLOB set to score at the rim in the first round of the 2021 Big 10 Conference tournament. From a box formation, the ball side low…
May 07, 2021
Derek Fisher, head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks, ran this flex action during the 2020 WNBA season. From the one-four high set, the point…
May 07, 2021
Troy used this cross screen, clear out action in the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Championship. Here, the help side defense knew the low post player…
May 07, 2021
Tom Thibodeau, coach of the New York Knicks, ran this play at the end of the 3rd quarter to get his team a finish in the paint. Out of a horns set, the post…
May 07, 2021
In the 2021 American Conference quarterfinal game, the Wichita State Shockers ran this quick hitter against a matchup zone to score on the block. The wing received a pass from the…
May 07, 2021
Sabrina Ionescu used this quick horns flare action to get an open look at a corner three point shot. From the horns set…
May 07, 2021
Florida used this DHO weave action to get a shot in the paint during the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament in 2021. Weave is a simple…
May 07, 2021
Dan Hughes, coach of the Seattle Storm, used this horns set into a double screen to get a layup in the 2020 WNBA playoffs. This is an excellent example…
May 07, 2021
Nebraska-Kearney, coached by Carrie Eighmey, used this set for their post to get a simple score. The post player screened…
May 07, 2021
Rick Carlisle, head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, ran this baseline out of bound play to get an open three point shot on the wing. They began in a T formation…
May 06, 2021
The Warriors used this simple elbow ball screen into a flare screen to get Steph Curry open on the wing. Here, the defense…
May 06, 2021
Murray State, coached by Matt McMahon, ran this action to get the ball in the hands of their scorer in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in 2021. The scorer used a UCLA cut and then received a double screen…
May 06, 2021
Sandy Brondello, coach of the Phoenix Mercury, called this action from a sideline out of bounds set. Here, the shooter set a screen away…
May 06, 2021
Steve Gomez ran this set to clear out the help defense and isolate his post player on the block. Out of a horns set…
May 06, 2021
The Atlanta Dream used a back screen into a ball screen to clear out the help defense and give the ball handler a lane to the basket. Because the point guard…
May 06, 2021
The Boston Celtics, coached by Brad Stevens, used this high double ball screen set to get an open three point shot against the Suns. The flare screen…
May 06, 2021
Grambling State, coached by Freddie Murray, used a simple double screen on the baseline to get the ball in the hands of their guard on the wing. This is a simple action
May 05, 2021
Coach Eric Musselman called this set to get his shooter an open look on the three point line to begin the 2nd half. After the point guard used a stack screen on the right…
May 05, 2021
The Wisconsin Badgers, coached by Greg Gard, ran this side line out of bounds action to score their first basket in the 2021 NCAA tournament. After the inbound pass…
May 05, 2021
Wayne Tinkle called this set for the Oregon State Beavers in the First Round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament. This is a great example of how continuous offensive motion creates…
May 05, 2021
The Syracuse Orange, coached by Quentin Hillsman, ran this set in the First Round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament to isolate their post player. They began in a stack…
May 05, 2021
South Florida ran this quick hitter in the First Round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament to get an open three at the end of the first quarter…
May 04, 2021
Ohio ran this BLOB in the First Round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament. Against Virginia’s man defense, the screen the screener action lead to a great look at the rim.
May 04, 2021
The NBA G-League continues to produce some great Xs and Os. In this case, the Erie BayHawks use a ghost screen to create an offensive advantage.
May 04, 2021
Adia Barnes called this set for the Arizona Wildcats to get an open 3 in their First Round NCAA matchup against Stony Brook. Out of a horns set, the post players set 2 double screens…
May 03, 2021
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