Bryce Drew's stack plays against the 2-3, from Coach's Clipboard, run as a pair: Stack-2, the lob, and Stack-3, the counter for when the zone overplays the stack. 4 and 5 line up one behind the other on the left low lane line with 3 in the right short corner. The point throws to the wing and takes it right back, no dribble, so the zone has to slide twice, and while it slides 3 runs under the stack to the left corner and drags the left forward with him. Now 4 steps off the stack onto X5's back and 5 comes around him for the lob, thrown two-handed over the top. Why the stack: two posts on one lane line are two players in the middle defender's area, and he can watch only one. The read is the middle turning to the ball on the pass back. The counter, Stack-3, is for the zone that starts sitting on 4 and 5 to kill the lob: after 2 gives the ball back he drifts down to the corner at a walk so nobody tracks him, 1 takes a dribble left to pull the guards, 4 and 5 turn and screen the two inside defenders who are glued to them, and 2 is the one who comes in from the corner for the lob. Common mistakes: the point dribbling before the pass back so the zone never shifts, the screener leaving the middle before 5 has cut, and the lob thrown flat instead of over the top. Both stack plays are Bryce Drew's, learned from Coach's Clipboard's 2-3 plays page and his Championship Productions tape on dominating the 2-3 with stacks; go there for the rest of the series.
