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TL;DR Simple Man to Man Play with a double flare screen for the point guard and a screen the screener action for a big. The Double Flare and Post is a quick-hitting man-to-man half-court set designed to challenge a defense’s perimeter tracking and interior help-side recovery. This set creates two distinct scoring opportunities in rapid…
I know terms like “Advanced Analytics” and “Advanced Metrics” are the new hotness in basketball and certainly the NBA, but there is plenty of great wisdom that can be gleaned by analyzing data you probably already have in a different way. For example: Slow starts: My first year coaching I remember sitting in the bleachers…
The Spread Pick and Roll with Cutters is a man-to-man continuity that starts in a standard Horns set, flows into a spread ball screen, and chains together back-screens and baseline cuts before resetting into a mirrored Horns — so you can run the whole sequence again from the other side. Starting Formation: Horns Step-by-Step Breakdown…
Take a look at this four minute video from Drew Hanlen and Pure Sweat Basketball with lots of basketball skills drills you can add to your individual workouts and/or basketball practices. The video was taken from a youth camp but the basketball skills drills are definitely advanced enough that they could be applied to any age…
Atlanta Hawks shooting guard John Jenkins, in this Beat the Pro NBA Shooting Challenge by Drew Hanlen of Pure Sweat Basketball.
If you are looking for an effective way to beat a 2-3 zone defense, the Pin and Skip is a must-have play for your basketball playbook. Zone defenses thrive on shifting and trapping, but by utilizing strategic screens (the “pin”) and a quick cross-court throw (the “skip pass”), you can easily create wide-open looks for…