Comments on: Pick and Rolls, and then, more Pick and Rolls http://www.basketball.org/pick-and-rolls-and-then-more-pick-and-rolls/ Enhancing the abilities of basketball players, teams and coaches Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clarence Gaines http://www.basketball.org/pick-and-rolls-and-then-more-pick-and-rolls/comment-page-1/#comment-1124 Clarence Gaines Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:38:22 +0000 http://www.basketball.org/?p=1700#comment-1124 Good Stuff. I'm currently coaching 8 to 10 year old kids in a league that only allows a team to play man to man defense. Can't double team, but you can switch. Your point about coaching kids in youth basketball is very valid. I like your three option rules. I utilize a 5 out system with three basic offensive options. Dribble hand off series, wing options off entry pass from point, screen option. Dribble hand off series works the best because it gets the defense moving and kids learn how to read defender, pass/hand off, attack the basket, and back door cut if being overplayed by their defender. Wing Option involves pass from point to wing. Point has the option of screening away, making a basket/banana cut, or setting a ball screen. Screen option involves wing screening for the point, and has been the easiest to defend because of the reasons you listed in your article. Keep publishing your thoughts. You need to find a way to get it to the masses. Good Stuff. I’m currently coaching 8 to 10 year old kids in a league that only allows a team to play man to man defense. Can’t double team, but you can switch. Your point about coaching kids in youth basketball is very valid. I like your three option rules. I utilize a 5 out system with three basic offensive options. Dribble hand off series, wing options off entry pass from point, screen option. Dribble hand off series works the best because it gets the defense moving and kids learn how to read defender, pass/hand off, attack the basket, and back door cut if being overplayed by their defender. Wing Option involves pass from point to wing. Point has the option of screening away, making a basket/banana cut, or setting a ball screen. Screen option involves wing screening for the point, and has been the easiest to defend because of the reasons you listed in your article.

Keep publishing your thoughts. You need to find a way to get it to the masses.

]]> By: Tuesday Bolts - 2.10.09 | Daily Thunder.com - Where Thunder Happens http://www.basketball.org/pick-and-rolls-and-then-more-pick-and-rolls/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 Tuesday Bolts - 2.10.09 | Daily Thunder.com - Where Thunder Happens Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:05:01 +0000 http://www.basketball.org/?p=1700#comment-1101 [...] Too much pick and rolling: “You see pick and rolls run from the wing, run from the corners, from the middle, from the elbows.  Sometimes run 30-35 feet from the basket, other times within good shooting range.  Pick and rolls are used to swing the ball from one side of the court to the other.  They are used for jump shots, used to hit the roll man, used to penetrate.  You see  combinations of guards and centers involved, forwards and centers, guards and forwards, forwards and forwards, guards and guards.  The other night I saw a point guard pass to a center, and go over to set a pick on the center to run a pick and roll. Crazy!  You see pick and rolls run as a set offensive play, or run just randomly, when players don’t know what else to do.  Surprisingly, what you do not see very often is the dribbler pulling up and shooting after coming off the screen, which was the original point of the pick and roll.” [...] [...] Too much pick and rolling: “You see pick and rolls run from the wing, run from the corners, from the middle, from the elbows.  Sometimes run 30-35 feet from the basket, other times within good shooting range.  Pick and rolls are used to swing the ball from one side of the court to the other.  They are used for jump shots, used to hit the roll man, used to penetrate.  You see  combinations of guards and centers involved, forwards and centers, guards and forwards, forwards and forwards, guards and guards.  The other night I saw a point guard pass to a center, and go over to set a pick on the center to run a pick and roll. Crazy!  You see pick and rolls run as a set offensive play, or run just randomly, when players don’t know what else to do.  Surprisingly, what you do not see very often is the dribbler pulling up and shooting after coming off the screen, which was the original point of the pick and roll.” [...]

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