Set Plays & Quick-Hitters
Called actions to get a specific shot — horns, box, and stagger sets.
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Offense
How you score, organized into the systems coaches actually run: set plays and quick-hitters, motion and continuity, the ball-screen game, attacking zones, and transition. Browse the play library by category, then go deep with full coaching breakdowns from real playbooks.
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Offense by category.
Motion & Continuity
Read-and-react offenses built on spacing, cutting, and screening rules.
Ball-Screen / Pick-and-Roll
The most-run action in the game and the spacing that makes it score.
Attacking Zones
Distort the shape, overload a side, and find the gaps in any zone.
Transition & Early Offense
Score before the defense is set — primary break and early actions.
Coaching breakdowns
Go deep on an offense.
All breakdowns →How to Coach a Motion Offense
Spacing, cutting, screening, and reading the defense — an offense built on rules, not calls.
How to Coach the 5-Out Motion Offense
All five spread outside the arc, the paint empty, and players making reads off the dribble.
How to Coach the Dribble-Drive Motion
A spread, attack-the-paint system on penetration, wide spacing, and kick-outs.
How to Coach Pick-and-Roll Offense
The most-run action in the game — how to space it and every read for the ball-handler.
How to Coach the Flex Offense
The continuity that never dies — what makes it go, where it’s vulnerable, how to teach it.
How to Attack a Zone Defense
A zone guards areas, not players — so you beat it by distorting its shape.
Doug Barncastle’s “Baseline” Zone Sets
A handoff-action quick-hitter and two counters built to attack the zone’s baseline.
Bill Harrell’s Zone Offense
Attacking odd and even fronts by keeping all five players moving to open spots.
Kevin Pigott’s Princeton Offense
Fordham Prep’s patient half-court motion built on backdoor cuts and named automatics.
Clint Swan’s Five-Man Open Post Offense
A read-and-cut continuity — keep five spots filled and cut hard to the rim.
Don Patterson’s TRIPLE & West Offenses
Two half-court sets from Plano West, including a three-option set.
Ben Davis’s Delay & Spread Offense
An open-post 5-out package to spread the floor and milk the clock.
Same Action, Two Alignments (Wichita State)
One action disguised from box and horns entries so the defense sees a new picture.
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