Zoom and Handoffs
Zoom, Chicago, Miami, Spain, step-up, ghost, drag, Delay. The handoff family and its reads.
The base action of the family and the one to install first: a pin-down straight into a dribble handoff, from five-out with the post as the hub. The post takes a…
What the zoom does when the defense takes the handoff away, which Breakthrough and Coach's Clipboard both call the reason the action cannot be stopped: three…
Chicago action from Horns, the set Hudl named the most technically rich of the 2025–26 season in Michigan's version: the point enters to the elbow big, who…
Miami action, a dribble handoff followed immediately by a ball screen, which Hudl calls one of the most ubiquitous concepts in modern basketball from the pros…
Spain pick and roll, the stack ball screen: the post screens for the point at the top, and as the post rolls, a shooter stacked behind him back-screens the…
The step-up ball screen, set from below the ball with the screener's back to the baseline so the handler attacks up the sideline toward the middle, and what it…
The ghost screen, the action Fraschilla joked would be the next "America's play": the screener jogs toward the handler as if to set a ball screen, turns his…
The transition ball screen, drawn from half court: the point pushes the ball up a side, the wings sprint to the deep corners, the first big fills the far slot…
Delay, the five-out offense with the big at the top as the hub, and its simplest trigger: the get, where a guard passes to the big and immediately chases the…
Coach's Clipboard's way into the zoom when the primary and secondary break are stopped, drawn from half court: the point passes to the trailing big, the…