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Basketball Offensive Plays

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Basketball is a game of constant motion where players rely on their fundamental skills to dribble, pass, shoot, defend, and rebound. Although your players should be taught the offensive techniques such as screening, cutting, ball-faking, and dribble penetration to create scoring opportunities, there are many scenarios in a game where a set play or pattern can be very effective in producing a scoring opportunity.

Beat Both Zone Defenses and Man-to-Man

In this section we provide several basketball plays and offense patterns that you can easily teach your players in practice and use in your games when the situation arises. We provide many different types of basketball plays. You'll find plays to beat aggressive man-to-man defense, plays to attack basketball zone defenses, plays to break full-court pressure, etc.

Specialty Plays Too

Inbound situations are great opportunities to get an easy score. We provide several basketball inbounds plays for both under-the-basket inbounds and sideline inbounds situations. We even provide you a few buzzer-beater basketball plays that you may need at the end of a game to give you a shot for the win!

A Little TextBook Basketball Philosophy...

Ideally any basketball coach would prefer to let the players play and create their own scoring opportunities . The basketball plays we provide are good ways to show your players how the execution of fundamental techniques can break down any defense. Our recommendation is to practice a select few of these plays with your team; maybe choose one to beat a zone, one to beat man-to-man defense, one sideline inbound, and one under-the basket inbound. Maybe choose a press-breaking play as well.

Go over your selected plays every practice, give them your own customized names (one coach renamed his press break play "Godzilla"), and then use them in games to see how your kids execute. You'll be surprised how effective a set play can be when executed correctly by your players. The best thing is to see the looks on the kids faces when a play works!

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