Princeton: Center Back Door (the 1996 UCLA Play)
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Princeton: Center Back Door (the 1996 UCLA Play)
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Two-guard front with 5 on the right block and the ball on the left wing. 3 passes back out to 1, because the center's flash is timed to the reversal and the ball has to be a guard's when he arrives at the elbow.
5 flashes from the right block up to the right elbow with his hands ready, because the center at the elbow with the ball is the hub of the whole offense and the only passer who can see both wings.
1 enters the ball to 5 at the elbow, because the center-forward back door is the center's play: he catches, pivots, and reads the wing's defender.
5 pivots to face 4 on the right wing and 4 makes his first cut toward the rim; the read is X4, who is ready for it and stays on his hip, because the same cut scored earlier and a defender who remembers it will not be beaten by it twice.
4 drifts back out to the arc as if the cut is over, and X4 relaxes a step toward the ball to watch 5's pass fake; 1 and 2 drift left as decoys and 3 slides to the left corner, because the help on a back door comes from the guards' defenders and a decoy keeps them home.
Counter: 4 plants and cuts again behind X4, because the second cut is the answer to a defender who was ready for the first, and a defender who took one step to the ball cannot take it back in time.
Counter finished: 5 throws the bounce pass into 4's stride, because the center held the ball through the fake and threw it the instant the defender's weight went the wrong way.
4 lays it in; one flash, one pass fake, and a second cut beat a defender who knew what was coming, which is why Carril said the man in front of you tells you where to go.
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