Today's Quote: "If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today." - Mike Krzyzewski
Today's Theme... "Blitz" Plays
We used to call these plays "Blitz", but it's also called the "Big" series as seen in "4-Out Offense Plays". There are many options with the Blitz plays, but first perfect the basic "Blitz" and "Blitz-Down" plays, which feature your post players running hi-lo action. Add other options later.
"Blitz" - this play is good if our inside post player can beat his/her defender 1-on-1 with a post move. Additionally, if the post defender is in foul trouble, Blitz may create another fouling situation. Instead of fouling, the defender may play "soft" defense allowing us to score. We like the "hi-lo" feed from the top, as there is usually no helpside defense when the ball is entered from the top.
O1 dribbles toward the right wing as O2 slides to the corner. O4 moves to the top and O1 passes to O4. O5 aggressively posts-up in the paint and O4 makes the "hi-lo" pass inside to O5 (oftentimes a "step-around" left-handed curl-bounce pass). O5 scores or gets fouled as the first option. The pass from O4 to O5 must happen quickly to avoid O5 getting a 3-second violation.
After O1 passes to O4, O2 flare-screens for O1, and O1 slides to the wing-corner area. If the pass inside to O5 is denied, O4 could skip-pass over the top to O1. O1 could shoot the 3, or pass inside to O5 posting up on the ball-side. Another option when the pass from O4 to O5 is being denied is to have O4 fake a pass to O5, and make a quick dribble move to the hoop around the right side of the defender.
If the pass from O1 to O4 is denied, O4 makes a hard back-cut up the right side of the lane and gets the pass from O1 for a lay-up. Another option here is instead of O1 passing to O4 (being denied), O1 passes inside directly to O5 posting up. We call this "15".
"Blitz-Down (or "54")" - we'll run this if we think O4 can post-up and beat his/her defender, or if the X4 defender has four fouls. This is the same play as "Blitz", except we start with O4 down-screening for O5, and O5 cuts up top and gets the pass from O1. O4 posts-up inside for the hi-lo pass from O5. We again have the option of O5 skip passing to O1 in the corner (diagram B).
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