“Kansas” - Shooting Guard Play
Monday, January 28, 2008
This is a good play if your O2 is tall, athletic, and can jump. O3 slides to the corner. O4 screens for O1. O1 dribbles over the screen to the wing and becomes a passer. O4 rolls off the screen down the left side of the lane for the pass from O1. If the initial pass is not there, O4 moves out to the short corner. Meanwhile, O2 moves up toward the top calling for the ball, and O5 comes up and back-screens for O2. O2 makes a hard back-cut to the hoop and O1 lob passes to O2 for the lay-up (diagram B). After screening, O5 pops out on top and could get the pass from O1 and take the 3-point shot (diagram C). If O2 does not get the pass off the cut, he/she moves out to the corner for a possible pass from O5, and the 3-point shot (or shot-fake and drive).
Key points… O4 must stay on the left side of the lane (and go to the short corner), or else the middle will become too clogged for O2’s cut. O5 and O2 must time the back-screen and not go too early, but wait probably until O1 goes over O4’s screen.
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