BLOB Box: Elevator for a Three
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BLOB Box: Elevator for a Three
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The same box as every baseline play: 2 and 1 at the elbows, 5 and 4 on the blocks, 3 inbounding. Why the defense cannot tell this from the layup play: nothing has moved yet, and the first move is the same cut to the rim.
On the handoff, 2 drops and back-screens X1, the weak elbow's defender. Why 2 screens first: he is the shooter, and a shooter who sets a screen is a shooter the defense stops watching.
1 cuts off the back screen to the rim as the decoy layup. X1 chases and X5 steps up to help, which is the point. Why the decoy: the help that steps to 1 is the help that cannot close out to the top later.
4 and 5 step up from the blocks to the free-throw line area shoulder to shoulder, leaving a gap between them, as if to screen for 1's cut. Why they look like a reaction: a defense sees two bigs stepping up after a rim cut every possession, and does not read it as the elevator.
2 sprints up the middle through the gap between 4 and 5. The read is X2: he trails 2 into the doors. Why the sprint: the doors close one count after the shooter clears, and a shooter who jogs lets his man through with him.
4 and 5 close the doors behind 2 and X2 runs into them. 1 clears to the weak corner. Why the close is late and not early: the elevator is the one screen that cannot be set before the cutter arrives, because the cutter has to go through it.
3 inbounds over the top to 2 at the top of the key and 2 shoots the catch-and-shoot three with X2 behind the doors. Score. Why the catch is clean: the only defender who could close out is standing behind two bigs.
2 shoots. Score. Why the shot is taken on the catch: the doors buy one count, and a shooter who dribbles gives it back.
Next trip, the adjustment: the defense has seen the elevator, and X2 now starts higher and cheats over the top toward the doors before 2 even cuts. Reset to the box with 3 inbounding. Why the defense does this: it would rather give up the back cut than the top three it just watched.
The counter begins exactly the same: 2 back-screens X1 and 1 cuts to the rim as the decoy. The read is X2 already above the elbow, leaning to the top. Why run it identically: Teach Hoops' rule is that any change in pace or alignment tells the defender the counter is coming.
4 and 5 step up to set the doors exactly as before. Why the doors are set even though the shooter is not coming through: a defender who sees the doors forming commits to the top, and that is the commitment the counter uses.
The counter: 2 sells the elevator cut, takes one relaxed step toward the doors, then bursts backdoor to the rim as 1 clears to the weak corner. X2 is above the doors guarding air. Why the hesitation: a defender who has decided to beat the shooter to the top relaxes for one count, and that count is the cut.
3 looks at the top first, then turns late and inbounds to 2 at the rim. Why the inbounder's eyes matter: a pass that starts with a look inside tells X2 to drop; a look at the top tells him he was right.
2 lays it in. Score. Why the elevator and the backdoor are one play: the defense can trail or cheat, and each choice gives up a different shot from the same first three steps.
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