Set Plays

Rip Thrus

How to run Rip Thrus — 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
Rip Thrus — frame 1 diagram
1 dribbles to the basket; 2 dribbles to the free-throw line; 3 dribbles to the right wing
Rip Thrus — frame 2 diagram
2 dribbles to the free-throw line
Rip Thrus — frame 3 diagram
Starting alignment (1 offense)
Rip Thrus — frame 4 diagram
X1 passes to the left low post; X1 cuts to the basket
Rip Thrus — frame 5 diagram
Starting alignment (1 offense)
Rip Thrus — frame 6 diagram
1 passes to the left perimeter; 1 cuts to the left low post; 1 cuts to the lane
Rip Thrus — frame 7 diagram
1 dribbles to the left corner

Use Rip Thrus to flood multiple levels of the defense at once — your point attacks the basket while the two fills the elbow and the three stretches the wing. Your one reads the congestion and cuts off both blocks to find the open gap.

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