Basketball Plays

A simple screen-away BLOB play to get the ball inbounds without a turnover, with a chance to score.

A spread pick and roll that cuts the offense down to a single read. Simple and effective.

A classic BLOB set where the screener gets screened, confusing the defense and opening layups at the rim.

A stagger screen out of the Horns alignment paired with a Blast, the term for a backdoor cut.

Off-ball screen rules for the 5 out offense. If the cutter goes to the rim the screener pops, if the cutter comes out the screener rolls.

Baseline inbounds screen the screener action run by Jeff Capel's Pittsburgh in ACC play. Good set to get the ball to your shooter.

After the ball screen, the first screener gets a flare for a catch-and-shoot 3 while the second screener rolls to the rim.

Screen the screener action out of the triangle. Gets your best shooter an open mid-range shot or one of your bigs an open layup.

Princeton Point offense principles adapted to a 5 out alignment, combining off-ball screens with the pick and roll.

4 out alignment with the post at the elbows or free throw line. Opens the rim for cuts and puts the big in place to screen and pass.

Over action from the Princeton Point series. Combines off-ball screens with a pick and roll, one of the series' basic actions.

Simple double screen set out of the 5 out alignment. A shooter comes off a stagger screen for an open look.

Away action from the Princeton Point series. An off-ball screen away from the ball, one of the series' basic actions.

Off-ball screen rules for the 4 out offense. Pass and screen away, the cutter curls to the rim and the screener pops out for a shot.

Flare screens and slips on both sides of the floor out of a 5 out set to spring shooters open.

The point guard passes to an elbow big, then screens for the other big or the corner player in a quick two-man split.

A flare screen into a slip to the rim. Simple, and strong against switching defenses.

Stagger screen away from the ball in the 4 out offense. Two off-ball screens free a shooter coming off the double screen.

Mavericks action where Powell screens off the ball for Luka, then turns and sets a ball screen for a pick and roll attack on the rim.

A corner stagger series with several scoring options from one alignment, so the defense must guard different actions.

Chicago action that gets a guard attacking downhill with speed. Works against man-to-man and switching defenses.

An off-ball split action from a 4-out motion set, one of the key scoring options in Jay Wright's Villanova offense.