Basketball Play - 4-Out 1-In "Fist"

From the Coach’s Clipboard Basketball Playbook, @ http://www.coachesclipboard.net

Here’s another very simple but effective play to run off the 4-out, 1-in motion offense set. It’s nothing but a simple pick and roll play (remember watching John Stockton and Karl Malone run this for years for the Jazz?). If the pick and roll is executed properly, it is very difficult to defend.

The inside post player (O5) sets the pick for any of the outside players, and then they run the two-man game of pick and roll. I think this is more effective if the post player sets the pick on the middle side so the ball-handler (O1) can go around the pick and up the middle of the lane, while O5 rolls to the opposite side of the lane (See Diagram A below). In Diagram B, the defense has switched, and now O5 should be open on the seal and roll to the hoop. We also have O4 back-screen for O2, who goes to the corner. This allows for more spacing for O1, and also gives us the option of the kick-out pass to O2 in the corner for the 3-pointer.

One last pointer...
If the X5 defender comes out on top of the screen to prevent O1's penetration, O1 should immediately recognize this and spin around back to the left. O5 still has inside position on X1 and releases to the hoop. Now O1 can hit O5 with the over-the-top lob pass.