Golden State Warriors – Swing Quick

The Golden State Warriors ran this play in transition last season. This is a great action to run vs teams who like to blue/ice/down the side pick & roll as the X4/5 is not able to drop in timeR...

Charlotte Hornets – Double Drag Punch (Post-Up)

The Charlotte Hornets frequented this early offense play throughout the season to get Al Jefferson isolated on the block. On the backscreen, make sure you have your smallest guard set the backscreen s...

Early Offense Slip Pick and Roll from Geno Auriemma

UCONN’s Geno Auriemma demonstrated this play this Summer at Coaching U Live in Las Vegas. This is a simple action that you get the floor moving early in the offense and keeping both bigs involve...

Cleveland Cavaliers Hawk 42

Last night during LeBron James’ homecoming, the Cleveland Cavaliers ran this action to start off their game vs the Knicks to kick off the 2014-15 season. Running LeBron to the weak side put mor...

Early Offense Pick and Roll

This weekend while listening to Middle Tennessee State head coach Kermit Davis speak at the PGC Basketball Clinic in Atlanta, this early offense pick and roll play came to me while he was talking abou...

VCU Rams 35 Quick

Anthony Grant ran this hand-off pick & roll play while he was the head coach at VCU. As 3 comes off the pick he has multiple options of attack: Get to the rim or pull-up jumper Hit 5 rolling to th...

Baseline Drag Early Offense

A few nights ago I was watching a WNBA Playoff game and one of the teams ran a quick play at the end of the game. The play was not very successful so I came up with this tweak to it. Your options are:...

Spain 3 Down Power

Spain ran this beautiful quick hitter to post-up Marc Gasol in their game versus Macedonia this afternoon. After 3 cross-screens for 5 I would love to add 4 pinning down for 3....

Macedonia 3 Down Quick

Macedonia ran this Early Offense stagger action today in International play versus Spain. The goal would be to get 3 coming off the stagger looking to score. If not the post up for one of the bigs is ...

University of Richmond Spiders Elbow 52

This is a play from Chris Mooney’s Richmond Spiders that they ran a few years ago in the NCAA Tournament. While this set only shows 1 action, with all the movement going on you could add several...