Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Offence - Isolation for a 4

Do you have a 4 that can attack the basket or shoot it? This might work well for your team. Shooters (2 and 3) space to corners as threats and to spread the defence. Your 4 starts at the weakside low block or short corner. Trail big (5) is opposite the ball outside of three. 5 starts the action off the top by sprinting a weak to strong side lane cut to the ballside corner. The new position of 5 spaces 2 to be a wing threat. 4 times their flash cut up to the weakside elbow and looks to play (Princeton chin action) after receiving pass from 1. For 1, the first option is to sprint a brush cut under the ball to the strong side corner (which spaces 3 to a wing threat).



Second option for 1 is to set a little on big ballscreen for 4 to use and read up top. Regardless, 4 is looking to attack the rim, kick out to a shooter, or shoot. After screening, 1 reads the defence and spaces appropriately (flare, lane roll to rim, etc). As with any action off the top, timing and spacing are important.

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