Today's Quote: "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts." - John R. Wooden
Today's Theme... Horns Plays
The Horns set is used at all levels - NBA/WNBA, collegiate, and high school. Both post players lifted up near the 3-point arc (the "horns"), with the point guard on top and two shooters deep in the corners. This creates good spacing, and takes the defense's bigs away from the hoop. Screening, cutting, dribble-drive, pick and roll, etc are all options. You get shots for your best shooters, and your best post player. Horns works well from transition, and is easy to get into right off an inbounds situation.
Horns-5 - This simple horns play is designed to get the ball to O5 inside. In diagram 1, O1 dribbles off O5's horns-screen to the left. O4 screens for O5 and O5 cuts to the hoop for the pass from O1. Optionally (diagram 2), O1 could dribble-drive to the hoop with a kick-out pass option to O3.
Kansas Horns Flare - This simple "Horns" plays has been used by Kansas coach Bill Self. Use the horns set except with O2 and O3 both on the right side (clear out the left side). O4 ball-screens for O1. O5 flare-screens for O4 and O4 cuts around O5 to the hoop for a lob from O1.
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