Baseline Out of Bounds play
BLOB Box: Screen the Screener Layup
- Court
- Half court
- Length
- 10 steps
About this play
The first play from the box and the one every other baseline look is disguised as: Coach's Clipboard's "Box-1". On the handoff, not the slap, the ball-side post cross-screens the weak-side post's defender; the weak post cuts low off the screen to the ball-side block for the layup. The moment he clears, the weak-side elbow drops and screens the screener's defender, and the screener comes back to the ball for the second layup look while the ball-side elbow pops to the wing as the safety. Why screen the screener: the defender who just fought over a cross screen is looking at the cutter, not the man who set it, so the screener is the one who comes open. The read is X4: trailing over the screen means 4 is open; going under or getting help means 5 is coming back. The counter is for the defense that switches the cross screen: 5, the bigger screener, seals the smaller switched defender and rolls to the rim, and the entry goes to the safety on the wing, who feeds the seal. Common mistakes: slapping the ball and losing a second, the cutter leaving before the screen is set, and nobody popping to the safety spot so the inbounder has no fourth option. Box-1 is Coach's Clipboard's, the screen-the-screener idea I got from Breakthrough Basketball's box series, and Teach Hoops' screen-the-screener video shows it live; I learned the box from all three.
