Sideline and After Timeout play
SLOB Box: Back Screen Lob for a Two
- Court
- Half court
- Length
- 12 steps
About this play
The need-a-two sideline play from the same box, the Coaching Toolbox's Portland and Florida back-screen lobs with Coach's Clipboard's "Kansas" curl counter. The weak elbow steps across and back-screens the ball-side block's defender, and the block cuts off it to the rim for the first lob; as he clears, the screener turns and back-screens the weak block's defender for the second lob. Why two lobs in a row: the defender who just helped on the first cut is the one screened for the second, and a lock-and-trail defense cannot trail two back screens. The read is the inbounder looking at the first cutter and then the second, throwing only when the defender has lost sight of his man. The counter is for the defense that switches the back screens: the screener steps back to the ball for the entry, and the first cutter fakes his curl and back-cuts to the rim for the layup, Kansas's second option. Common mistakes: both cutters going at once, the lob thrown to a cutter whose defender can see the ball, and the screener wandering after screening instead of stepping back as the outlet. The double back screen is from the Coaching Toolbox's Portland and Florida sideline lobs, the curl counter is Coach's Clipboard's Kansas, and Championship Productions' quick-layup sideline video will take you deeper.
