Lanes

They miss the shot and 5 gets the rebound. Two of their players are still under our basket.

• 1Get open on the left sideline and call for the ball.Go to the free-throw line extended with your back to the sideline. You can see the whole floor from there.
• 2Sprint up the left sideline.Run wide and run now. The first three steps are how you beat x2.
• 3Sprint up the right sideline.Run wide and run now. Two wide lanes make one defender guard the whole floor.
• 4Turn and sprint to the far rim.You are the first post down the floor. Beat x4 and you get a layup or a rebound.
• 5Turn to the outside and pass to 1.Keep the ball at your chin, pivot away from the crowd and hit 1 on the sideline.

Next: Push the middle

1 has the ball on the left sideline. 2 and 3 are ahead in the wide lanes. Only x1 is back.

• 1Push the ball to the middle of the floor.From the middle you can pass to either side. Dribble hard with your eyes up.
• 2Keep sprinting wide to the left wing.Stay near the sideline until you reach the three-point line. Wide lanes pull the defence apart.
• 3Keep sprinting wide to the right wing.Stay near the sideline until you reach the three-point line. You are a pass 1 can always make.
• 4Keep running to the rim, just right of the ball.Run past half court behind 1. You finish, rebound, or post up early.
• 5Trail the play up the middle.You are the safety on a turnover, and the pass back if the break stops.

Then the defence shows one of 3 looks: Read: they stop the ball (50%), Read: they stay with the wing (25%), Read: the defence is back (25%).

1 has the ball in the middle. x1 is the only defender back and they step up to stop the ball. x3 is close behind 3.

• 1Dribble at x1, then pass to 2 cutting to the rim.Make x1 guard you. Once they step up, the wing is open.
• 2Cut hard to the rim from the wing.Cut at an angle with your hands ready. The pass is coming.
• 3Cut to the rim on the right side.You take x3 with you, and you rebound if 2 misses.
• 4Keep running to the rim for the rebound.A missed layup on the break is yours if you keep running.
• 5Trail to the top as the safety.If they get the ball, you are the first one back.

Layup for 2.

1 has the ball in the middle. x1 is the only defender back. They back up toward 2 to take away the pass.

• 1Keep the ball and go all the way to the rim.Nobody stopped the ball. The layup is yours.
• 2Stay wide and run to the left wing.You keep x1 away from the rim, so 1 has an open lane.
• 3Stay wide and run to the right wing.You keep x3 out of the lane while 1 goes to the rim.
• 4Follow 1 to the rim for the rebound.Run in behind the layup. A miss is yours.
• 5Trail to the top as the safety.If they get the ball, you are the first one back.

Layup for 1.

1 has the ball in the middle. x1 is on the ball and x2 and x3 are back with the wings. Nobody is open.

• 1Pull the ball out to the left side and set up.No layup this time. Keep the ball and run the offence.
• 2Stay wide on the left wing.Hold your spot. The offence starts from here.
• 3Stay wide on the right wing.Hold your spot so the floor stays spread.
• 4Run through to the right block and post up.You are the one inside. Get to the block before x4 is set.
• 5Fill the right side up top.Now we have four outside and one inside. You are the pass across.

No shot. The defence got back, so we keep the ball and run the offence.