Baskethall-cHietes And Phere

A Combination
Fast-Break and a Set-Play
Offense

By Mike Houser

Andrew Jackson Senior High School,
Jacksonville, Fla.

HE best way for a coach to keep

an opposing team guessing, if he has

boys that can play both the fast-

break and the slow set-type of basketball,
is to use a combination of the two.

Fundamentally, basketball is a game of
passing the ball and shooting baskets, re-
gardless of the type of offense or defense
employed by a team.

If we can get the jump on our oppo-
nents, or if we intercept the ball, we fast-
break, otherwise we resort to our set plays.
The plays help the boys get started a cer-
tain way and aid all the players in know-

 

 

 

ing what they should do with the ball
when they get it.

In Diagram 1, 5 passes to 4 who gives
the ball to 5. Five passes to 1 who fakes
and passes to 3. Three passes to 5 who
shoots. Five, 3 and 2 follow in. The guard
on the opposite side of center breaks in
for a pass.

In Diagram 2, 5 passes to 4 who gives
the ball to 5. Five passes to 1 who fakes
or passes to 3. Three shoots or dribbles
in for a shot. Five, 3 and 2 follow up the
play.

In Diagram 3, 2 shifts to the opposite
side and the play is worked as in that
shown in Diagram 1. Four passes to 5 who
fakes to 4 and passes to 3. Three passes
to 1 who passes to 5. Two shifts when 5
fakes to 4.

In the center play, shown in Diagram 4,
3 stands outside the circle. Five passes to
3 who passes, dribbles in or shoots. Four
and 5 stay back. One and 2 break for the
basket, when 3 gets the ball. One, 2 and
3 follow up.

Diagram 5 shows the guards breaking in
and the forwards coming out to screen.
Four passes to 3. Four and 5 break in.
Three passes to 4 or to 5, shoots or dribbles
in. Three, 4 and 5 follow up. One and
2 come out and screen. Three steps out
of the free throw circle.

In the guard play, shown in Diagram 6,
5 goes in, fakes for a pass, spins and goes
in under the basket. Four passes to 5.
One and 2 follow up after 5 breaks in.
Three comes out.

 

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In the play shown in Diagram 7, 4
passes to 1 who gives the ball to 4. Four
dribbles in or passes to 3 or to 2. Four, 3
and 2 follow up the play.

In the play shown in Diagram 8, 4 or 5
passes the ball. One, 2 and 3 fake out
and break in under the basket. The ball
is passed to whichever man is open and the
other two follow up the play.

Novelty Defenses for

Special Situations
By Virgil A. Kirste
High School, Ryegate, Montana
OACHES in Montana, where the
i game has previously been played
more offensively than defensively,

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