Basketball Play - "Slip"

This play starts off as a simple screen-the-screener play with a "slip" option. This play is shown with the 3-out, 2-in set. There is also a slip play designed for the 4-out, 1-in offense.

See Diagram A. O1 is at the point, and starts the play. O1 passes to O3 and screens away for O2. O5 moves out to the ball-side corner. O2 cuts through. If open, O3 could pass to O2.

See Diagram B. As O1 is setting the pick for O2, O4 comes up and sets a pick for O1.

After O2 has cleared through, O2 continues through and sets a pick for O5, who is also an option. O2 then rolls off the screen for the three-point option in the corner. O1 cuts off O4's screen to the hoop, and gets the pass from O3 for the lay-up. If O4's defender switches to cover O1, then O1 should clear out to the right corner and now, if O4 sealed the screened defender correctly, he/she should have inside position for the roll cut through the lane and the pass from O3.

This play features two picks, and usually the defense will not defend the second pick. They will defend the first cut by O2, then relax, thinking they have the play stopped. It's at this point that O1 will make the hard cut and get the lay-up.

Also, if the defense "jump-switches" the screen (moves out on top of the screen) with X4 jumping out on O1, O4 seals and "slips" the screen with a back-cut and pass directly to O4.