Set Plays

Triangle Special (Reversal)

How to run Triangle Special (Reversal) — 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
Triangle Special (Reversal) — frame 1 diagram
1 passes to 2; 1 cuts to the left corner
Triangle Special (Reversal) — frame 2 diagram
2 passes to 4; 4 passes to 3; 5 screens near the left low post; 2 cuts to the right low post
Triangle Special (Reversal) — frame 3 diagram
4 screens near the left low post; 5 cuts to the top; 3 passes to 4
Triangle Special (Reversal) — frame 4 diagram
1 screens near the left wing; 4 cuts to the left low post

Triangle Special (Reversal) is your call when you want to reverse the ball and free a post player off stacked screens. You swing from 1 to 2 to 4 to 3, then hit 4 after a double screen action on the left low post — the reversal and the double screen force the defense to choose who to help off.

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