Princeton play
Princeton: Strong-Side Chin (UCLA Cut)
- Court
- Half court
- Length
- 9 steps
About this play
What the offense runs when the first pass from the two-guard front goes to the same-side wing instead of guard to guard. Why it is its own phase: with no reversal there is no chin cut, so the passer rubs his defender off the high post on a UCLA cut toward the block (a cut, not a screen; the post does not move for it) and the post steps out to the arc to take the pass from the wing. The second option follows at once: the wing circles under the cutter and comes back for a dribble handoff with the post, and as he turns into the middle a flare screen is set on the weak side, which the lineage says has to be timed to the handoff (Thomaidis). Carril's version keys the same cut off a denied guard-to-guard pass: the wing passes back to the guard, who UCLA cuts, and the post pops to the arc. Counter shown: the scouted defender jumps over the top of the UCLA cut to take the layup, and on the handoff drive the weak-side defender helps, so the flare shooter he left is the shot. If the post is denied the step-out, he back cuts for the lob. I learned this phase from Lisa Thomaidis's Canadian National Team playbook and Pete Carril's own notes on Coach's Clipboard; go to them for the rest of the strong-side options.
