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3-0 5 Out Backscreen

How to run 3-0 5 Out Backscreen — a set play you can teach frame by frame and take to your next practice.

Online Basketball Playbook · Published May 30, 2026 · 2 min read
3-0 5 Out Backscreen — frame 1 diagram
Starting alignment (3 offense)
3-0 5 Out Backscreen — frame 2 diagram
Starting alignment (3 offense)
3-0 5 Out Backscreen — frame 3 diagram
1 cuts to the right low post; 2 screens near the right wing; 3 passes to 1; 3 passes to 2
3-0 5 Out Backscreen — frame 4 diagram
3 passes to 1; 1 cuts to the right corner; 1 passes to 2

Run this 5-out action when you want to spring a shooter off a back screen and keep the paint wide open. Your 2 sets the screen on the right wing so 3 can swing the ball and hit 2 coming off the action — the spread alignment means there is no help defender available to interrupt the catch. Call it when the defense goes under screens and gives your shooters daylight.

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