Matchup zones are tough because it doesn't feel quite right to run your man stuff or your zone stuff Kansas chooses their zone package and it works like a charm

Box AI Cross | Weak Side Option See strong side ⬇️

Why it works: The defense is forced to cover sideline to sideline to defend all options - opening up the middle

"Play Through the Blocker" These two-man games lead to blind pig backdoors, DHOs, pass and follow ball screens...

Martin Gortat retired years ago… but his screening lives on

"Rotate" is a designed middle catch paired with a baseline cut and drift to the corner If x5 takes the high post, x3 can only cover 1 of the two cutters Pass to the one that's uncovered

Ghost it. Brush it. Slip it. Screen it. Or reject it altogether, like you see here The "5-High Ghost Offense" turns every 2-man game into a choose-your-own-adventure for your players - and a nightmare for help-side defenders

Ram Flip with an exit screen Help defense is HARD these days

In Circle Motion, I preach "shooters in the corners" For this very reason

How to break a tempo press

Like a Frankenstein monster of all the fun actions in basketball Twirl, 77, Spain, Finland

Circle Motion is about continuous pressure through cuts, screening, and timing

Hurley's pet duck-in set Gut pin, seal for the HILO

Zone Offense Set Play Get your PG penetrating the zone to make a decision

Auburn’s flex isn’t just old-school It’s surgical to create consistent interior touches

A well-executed "ghost flare" is crippling to defend And against the switch, you'll get slips from the screener

"Ghost Flare" is an easy way to create a gap drive And they are hard to switch because there's not actually a screen

Stretch the zone Then Seal in the zone Then Dive into the pocket created A+ zone BLOB

It looks like diamond floppy is setting up Then a "screener" becomes the shooter Good stuff from Fener

Like with Princeton concepts... with no one positioned below the free throw line, the wing backdoors are deadly The "5-High Ghost Offense”

Mark Pope’s triple screen decoy An isolation hiding in plain sight

Zone Set Play | "45" The misdirection dribble is the key here It brings the ball off the sideline and relaxes the zone

If BALL PRESSURE causes this much trouble for the #6 team in the country, imagine what it will do to high school guards in your conference

Raised BLOB formations create cleaner slips

Wide angle pins are everywhere right now One reason: there's plenty of room to back cut

With the hand off game becoming so prevalent in the pro game, it's only a matter of time before you see more and more in high school ball

In the pro game, going under the ball screen is an automatic "twist" Here's a good example

Face cuts are good You get a lot of them in Circle Motion

If you were designing an offense specifically for AJ Dybantsa, it would look a lot like Kevin Young’s

"Warrior" | Zone Offense A shooter set play that continues into baseline overload

The high and wide spacing fuels the backdoor cuts and down hill driving lanes that make the "5-High Ghost Offense" nearly impossible to pressure

College basketball is an excellent study on how to manipulate the "Low I" Coordinated movement (or screening) remove the most plausible help defender

Many zones don't know what to do with stack alignments If you get the edge off the ball screen, the defense can't cover it all

"need a quick three" 😍

Shallow cuts are everywhere now Coaches have caught on as a super simple way to distort the low man tag

A butt cut… I’ve seen this somewhere else but can’t put my finger on it 🤔

Ram Flip from Nate Oats A simple way to open up the middle of the court for a playmaking guard

The most basic way to attack odd front zones Great against 1-3-1s and 3-2 zones

Blocker Mover in the NBA… Terry Stotts running his “Chest Series"

I’ve used a 1-3-1 half court trap my entire coaching career… And the offense has tried (mostly unsuccessfully) to make this pass the entire time

Horns Out | Chin Vertical screens keep pressure on the rim

Jevon Carter in the press was like a shark smelling blood Turnover. Dunk. Timeout. He was the heartbeat of Press Virginia’s chaos

The EuroLeague still has the patience to intentionally play inside out Screen into the post, zip it out - simple basketball

I love a fancy BLOB but gimme all the stupid simple actions to attack the rim

Watch the tag defender - you can see the indecision He needs to get through the exit screen but he also needs to help on the roll Excellent design by Tommy Lloyd

"Sting" isolates x4 Engage-Pass-Pass

If your center is capable, a pet overload set is ESSENTIAL Clear the back side and attack a mismatch

There's some college coaches that have basically solved offense Kevin Young is one of them

How many back screens do your shooters set? You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers

Spain action is mutating