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

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

This play is similar to the 3-2 Slip play, but is adapted for the 4-out, 1-in motion offense.

Set up in the 4-out, 1-in offense.

See Diagram A. O1 has the ball and the post player is on the opposite low block. This starts out as a simple pass and screen-away play. O1 passes to O3 (who has made a V-cut back out to receive the pass). O1 sets a screen for O2. Meanwhile, O5 slides up to the elbow.

O2 cuts hard around the screen, looking for the pass from O3 and the lay-up (Diagram B).

Note this option if the X1 defender moves out on top of the screen. Then O1 slips the screen and cuts to the hoop (See Option diagram to the right).

Well, assuming O2 has cut through, and does not receive the ball, then he/she continues out to the weak-side short corner. Now, O5 sets a screen for O1 who "slips" around the screen for the pass from O3 and the lay-up. O4 moves out to the top as a defensive safety (Diagram C).

Diagram D. If the defense switched on the screen and O1 does not receive the pass, then O5 should have inside position on the defender if he/she "sealed" the defender correctly. Then O5 just rolls to the hoop for the pass from O3 and the shot.