Princeton play
Princeton: Chin, Curl the Drift
- Court
- Half court
- Length
- 9 steps
About this play
The other half of the drift read, run from the same Chin sequence. Why it exists: once a defense has been burned by the fade to the top, the guard's defender starts chasing over the top of the drift screen to stay attached, and a defender over the top has given up the rim. The guard goes to the level of the screen, reads his man going over, and curls the drift to the rim; the pass may come late, so the cutter keeps his hands up all the way (Thomaidis). Counter shown: the scouted defense locks and trails on the drift to stop the three, so the curl is the counter and the late pass from the wing finishes it. After a curl the lineage gives three ways to continue when the pass is not there: the wing dribbles out and the team calls Escape to reset Chin, the wing passes to the post at the elbow and runs Corner Over, or the post second-cuts to the top and the offense is in the Open Phase. The drift reads here are straight from Lisa Thomaidis's Canadian National Team playbook, with Basketball For Coaches and BBALLBREAKDOWN filling in the curl; give both a look if you want to go deeper.
