Motion Offense Principles A1 PATRIOT MOTION OFFENSE ROAD MAP 1. Pass and Cut 2. Post Entry and Cut Grades K-2 3. Dribble At Action on Perimeter 4. Circle Movement: North/South Drives 5. Basic Post Slides 6. Baseline Drive Adjustment Grades 3-5 7. Elbow Drive Adjustment 8. Using the Down Screen Grades 6-8 9. Back Screen Out of the Post 10. Post as a Screener 11. Multiple/Stagger Screens 12. Using the Flare Screen 13. Pin and Skip 14. Squaring the Cut Grades 9-12 15. Circle Reverse after Drift 18. Power Dribble/Dribble Handoff 16. Using the Ball Screen 19. Advanced Post Slides 17. Post Entry: Relocate/Flare-Slip Plan of Implementation: On the following pages are the concepts/principles of our Patriot Motion Offense. This is a system we want taught at all levels of our feeder system. We start out in kindergarten/first grade with one principle and gradually add on as the players come up through our system. It is our hope that by the time our players reach the JV/Varsity level they have been exposed to and received plenty of repetitions of all the fundamental principles of our offense. We don t want our coaches to introduce a new principle until their players have mastered the current principles. Above you will see the road map for the installation our motion offense.
Motion Offense Principles A2 Principle #1---Pass and Cut for a Score When you pass the ball, cut to the basket---do NOT STAND!!! There are 3 reasons why we can t stand after we pass: 1. Defender will relax after you pass 2. If you stand it allows defender to help on the ball 3. Your cut creates scoring opportunities for you or your teammates by removing an immediate help defender, occupying other help defenders, and giving the person filling your spot a chance to score. 2 Rules: 1. When you pass to a teammate who is one pass away, basket cut 2. Open spots are filled from baseline up 3 Scoring Opportunities: 1. Defender does not jump to ball---face Cut 2. Defender jumps to ball over 3 point line---rear Cut 3. Player filling spot look to rear cut if overplayed or sweep and drive When filling spots, cutter and passer must read defense. 1. If defender steps over 3-point line, rear cut (1 st diagram below). 2. If he closes out hard on the catch, sweep and drive (2 nd diagram below).
Principle #2---Post Entry and Cut (North/South) Motion Offense Principles A3 1. Go Cut High---This is when the post man is positioned on the block (diag A) 2. Go Cut Low---This is when the post man is on the first hash---cut must be below the block. (Diagram B) Scoring with Go Cuts: 1. Defender may get caught flat footed 2. Defender may relax when you get to lane, so finish cut and be ready to receive pass late. Go cuts open up opportunities for other players because as perimeter players fill spots they may pull defenders with them creating back cut opportunities. GO CUTS are also known as LAKER CUTS Whether we pass to the high post or low post, we will look to cut off the post.
Principle #3--- Dribble At Action on Perimeter Motion Offense Principles A4 If a player dribbles at you east/west on the perimeter (dribble at), then you look to back cut. This movement is diagrammed below. The speed dribble is also a good way to get a post man back inside, as shown below. A good ball-handler can move everyone by using the dribble-at action. Cutter on perimeter should read ball-handler. If you can see his numbers when he is dribbling at you, then you back cut.
Motion Offense Principles A5 Principle #4---Circle Movement: North/South Drives If ball is driven right, perimeter players circle to their right. If it is driven left, perimeter players circle left. DO NOT STAND when ball is driven.
Motion Offense Principles A6 Principle #5---Basic Post Slides: Off Dribble Penetration The posts must react correctly to dribble penetration! The diagrams below show the basic post movements for penetration from the top or from the baseline.
Principle #6---Baseline Drive Adjustment Motion Offense Principles A7 On a baseline drive, the man on the opposite side of the floor does not use the circle movement. Instead he drifts towards baseline for natural pitch as diagrammed below.
Principle #7---Elbow Drive Adjustment Motion Offense Principles A8 On an elbow drive: the man on the opposite side below FT line extended back cuts to the basket, the men on top fade, and the post drifts to short corner
Principle #8---Setting and Using the Down Screen Motion Offense Principles A9 If the ball is not driven on the perimeter, we must be ready to get our teammates open. To do this we look to use down screens and flare screens. We want to wait for the ball to get in a good position on the perimeter before we set the down screen, as diagrammed below. Using/Setting the Down Screen The cutter must anticipate the down screen coming and set his man up by taking him down to the baseline. The screener should be saying, Wait, Wait, Wait to tell the cutter to wait until he gets set. Once he is set, the screener says, Use it, Use it (This communication should be used when setting any type of screen). The cutter then goes shoulder to hip off the screener (decision point) and makes his read. When making a fade cut, the cutter yells change to let the screener know he needs to change his angle on the screen. Anytime there is a screening situation, the screener always goes opposite the cutter. The reads are diagrammed below.
Principle #9---Look to Back Screen out of the Post Motion Offense Principles A10 The back screen is very hard to defend and it offers another way to attack the basket north/south. o After making a basket cut, look to back screen your way out to the perimeter. Don t hog the lane. o The back screen gives us the opportunity to fill the perimeter with a purpose. o Setting a back screen can also open up a scoring opportunity for the screener. Different ways to use the back screen are diagrammed below.
Motion Offense Principles A11 The man coming off the back screen must set his man up before using the screen. o If his defender is player him low, he takes him lower. o If he is playing him high, he takes him higher before coming off the screen. The screener must recognize where the defender is positioned and set screen with the proper angle. This is diagrammed below. The reads for using the back screen are as follows: 1. If your defender does not jump to the ball, you face cut him to the basket(first diagram above) 2. If defender gets up to deny and then trails you off screen you continue to basket looking for a lay-up, then looking to seal defender for a post up(second diagram above). 3. If defender goes under screen, you go to basket pointing for lob. Screener will pop to arc after all these cuts. If cutter cannot immediately receive pass, he looks to keep defender on his back and receive a deep post entry.
Motion Offense Principles A12 Principle #10---Post as a Screener When in the Post, you need to look to be a screener to get people open If we are in a 4 out/1 in set or 3 Out/2 In set, we have natural screeners in the post. In these situations, the posts should be looking for cutters to screen. They then shape up and find the ball after they screen. o If you cut into the post, you should also look to screen and get people open from the post position. Examples of this principle are diagrammed below. OPTION: Anytime a POST sets a UCLA SCREEN, he must set a BALL SCREEN for wing OPTION: Anytime a POST sets a BACK SCREEN, he must set a FLARE SCREEN for top OPTION: Anytime a POST sets a BACK SCREEN, he must follow it into DOWN SCREEN for wing into curl and drop look
Motion Offense Principles A13 Principle #11---Look to Set/Come off Multiple Stagger Screens Always finish your cuts! Often a back screen turns into a double or triple stagger screen. When cutting out of lane, look to screen. Examples of this are diagrammed below. A good time to set a Stagger screen is after TOP to opposite WING pass
Principle #12---Setting and Using the Flare Screen Setting and Using the Flare Screen Motion Offense Principles A14 Ideally we would like the flare screen set with the ball in the seam also, but it is not as important as the down screen. If the ball is on the opposite wing, we do have a good flare screening angle against a help side defender. The keys to the flare screen are as follows: 1. The cutter sets his man up by selling the basket cut and then sprints to the screen. Once he gets shoulder to hip with screener, he shuffles to prepare himself to shoot the ball. The talk would be sprint, sprint, shuffle, shuffle. 2. The ball-handler must dribble to the action to have a good angle to make the pass. This dribble should take place outside the arc. The communication when setting the flare screen is the same as when setting a back screen. These concepts are diagrammed below.
Motion Offense Principles A15 Reading the flare Screen The cutter s reads when using the flare screen are the same as using the down screen. The screener will always go opposite the cutter. The reads are diagrammed below. The communication on these screens should be the same as the down screen. On the step back cut, the cutter yells Change to make the screener change his screening angle. The screener then can slip and look to seal his man in the post.
Principle #13---Pin and Skip To Counter Helping Defense Motion Offense Principles A16 This principle could be taught earlier because the defense may look to over help on basket cuts. Always pin screen the defender who has the longest recovery to the ball. o Sprint to the pin screen to take defense with you. Set screen by getting back to teammate and yelling Pin. Examples of this principle are diagrammed below. Anytime there is a player in the post, he should be looking for the pin screen when the ball is opposite him. Players that basket cut can come off a pin screen or circle and look to set a pin screen before spacing out. These scenarios are diagrammed below.
Principle #14---Squaring the Cut Motion Offense Principles A17 If a defender bodies up the cutter preventing a clean basket cut, the cutter should square the cut and then do one of two things: o Fill out to the nearest open spot o Back screen his way out If a cutter gets stood up by the defender right away, he X-cuts and screens for teammate one pass away and then slips to the basket Primary focus is to make hard cut, this is used only when cutter gets jammed
Principle #15---Circle Reverse after Drift Motion Offense Principles A18 This is used when the ball-handler tries to penetrate to the paint, but is stopped and is in trouble. When this happens the natural pitch man should circle back behind the ballhandler to give him relief. This is diagrammed below.
Principle #16---Setting and Using the Ball Screen Motion Offense Principles A19 Anytime a ball-handler uses a reverse dribble, this is a sign for the post man to sprint to a ball screen. Ball Screens can also be used at other times in the offense. For example a post man can start in the high post and be instructed to set 2 or 3 ball screens before he does anything else. Refer to Patriot Ball Screen series Ball screens can also be set: 1. After a UCLA screen 2. Following a post to ball-side wing pass 3. When the ball is in the power position on top of the arc 4. Following a blocker to mover pass
Principle #17---Post Entry: Relocate / Flare-Slip Motion Offense Principles A20 This principle offers the post passer 2 more options after he enters the ball to the post. These two options are as follows: 1. Relocate to Corner (Diagram A) 2. X-Cut---Screen away, and dive to basket (Diagram B) Also known as: Flare-Slip Split Screen
Motion Offense Principles A21 Principle #18---Power Dribble for Reversal / Dribble Handoff If the ball-handler dribbles at you with his back to the basket: set your man up and go get hand-off. When handing the ball off, the ball-handler should have his non-dribbling hand on top of ball and dribbling hand on bottom. The man who hands the ball off should roll to the basket. This is another good way to get a post man back inside. These actions are diagrammed below.
Motion Offense Principles A22 Principle #19---Advanced Post Slides on Dribble Penetration The diagrams below show how post players can move on dribble penetration if the defense reacts a certain way to them stepping to the short corner.