Basketball Play - "OSU"

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

This is a pretty good play with several options that you can run out of the 3-out, 2-in set vs man-to-man defense. We could run this play against teams that full-front our low post. It also works well when the opponent does not come off our best shooter, O2, to give help.

See the diagrams below. We start in the 3-2 set. O3 v-cuts and gets the entry pass from O1. O1 shallow-cuts to the ball-side corner. You'll notice that X5 is full-fronting O5, so the pass to the low-post is not there.

Diagram B. O4 flashes to the ball-side elbow. If open, the pass could go to O4. O4 can shoot or make a dribble move up the right side of the lane. Notice that O5 screens the X5 defender outside.

Diagram C. If denied, O4 "steps out" to the arc. O2 screens for O4. O5 screens X5 outside, taking away the help defense. O4 cuts around the screen for a possible lob pass from O3 and a lay-up (diagram D). If the defense switches that screen (with the smaller X2 defender going with O4), O3 skip-passes to O2 (diagram E), who has flared to the opposite arc after screening. O2 can shoot the outside shot, or pass inside to O4 posting up on the smaller X2 defender (diagram F).