Screening Situations To Cover

Screening Situations We Must Cover
1. Ballscreens
a. Trap and Rotate
b. Hard Show
c. Trap & Recover
d. Squeeze and Go Under
e. Switch

2. Backscreens
a. Squeeze and deny shooter
b. Absorb and recover non-shooter or open cutter
c. Man on cutter must jump to ball

3. Downscreens
a. Open tunnel
b. Bo ballside if ball is in the outer third of floor
c. Tunnel or chase shortest distance otherwise
d. Bumping curler’s keep contact with screener to stop slips

4. Side by Side Double
a. Chase the cutter
b. Zone for slips if furtherest screen from ball
c. Extend if closest screen from ball—on great shooter make screener flash to ball

5. Double Stagger
a. Same as above

6. Cross Screens
a. If a shooter sets it, no separation
b. Zone or absorb otherwise
c. Tag the cutter and force him high
d. If he cuts below or under cuts, he goes out of bounds

7. Flare
a. Man on cutter over the top
b. Man on screener zone lane for slip
c. Take away the reverse curl pass

8. Handoff/ Weave
a. Switch
b. Trip if switch hurts
c. Stay if mismatch hurts