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

Reading Screens Ideas

Reading Screens Ideas

1. Great perimeter players use screens to their advantage. Some players can’t get a shot off of the dribble, but are extremely hard to guard because they are active and know how to use screens to get open shots. We try to teach our players how to use screens to their advantage.

2. In general, we teach our player’s to react to what the defense is giving us. For example, if a down screen is set and the defender chases us, we will automatically curl. Conversely, if the defender goes ball-side to cheat the screen, we teach our player’s to fade.

3. We want our player’s to Wait, Read the Defense and then use a Change of Pace to make the appropriate cut. We want to use deception in our game, but once we commit to a cut, we must be explosive to beat the defense. There can be no separation between screener and cutter to allow the defense through. The cutter must put their shoulder on the screener’s hip. Before receiving the pass, the cutter must show hand targets.

4. The four types of cuts off of a basic down screen are—Straight, Curl, Fade and Back

5. Most players can only do 1 or 2 cuts successfully. Only the most complete multi-dimensional players can successfully use all 4 cuts to put themselves in a position to score.

Cutting & Screening Thoughts

We scrimmaged our practice players in a live 2nd half scrimmage today. The most glaring part was our lack of movement and spacing. Here are a few thoughts:

Three things you can do in basketball:
1. Move the basketball
2. Move people—Johnny Orr used to run motion w/o screens.Screening—negative to screening is that you momentarily destroy spacing