Here are a couple of basketball offensive plays that we have run that get the ball inbounds AND some easy buckets.
Inbound Play
For an inbound play under your offensive basket, make a 4 player stack on the side the ball is being in bounded.
- Line up at the elbow extended about 5 to 8 feet off the lane.
- When inbounder slaps the ball, the first player makes a 45 degree cut towards the basket (this can result in a layup if the defense is slow to set up).
- The second player in the stack makes a 45 degree cut outside to the 3 point line and the base line.
- The third player in the stack cuts to the top of the foul line.
- Final player in stack drops back to half court as the “safety valve” if all others are covered.
Full Court Press
Against a full court press, we set up a stack at the top of the 3 point arc.
- First player in stack breaks on a left 45 degree line toward corner.
- Second player breaks 45 degrees right toward right corner.
- Third breaks straight ahead to foul line.
- Fourth player does a delayed break toward our basket.
- If the inbound pass goes to either side, we want the inbound passer to immediately break straight ahead and have the ball come right back to them.
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