Don Showalter 20 Ball Screen Offense

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I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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May 10, 2014

Don Showalter 20 Ball Screen Offense

20 OFFENSE INTRODUCTION

The 20 ball screen offense or 20 Offense as we call it is a continuity ball screen offense from the high 1-4 set. Many of my ideas for the 20 ball screen offense were from a great local junior college coach at Kirkwood Community College – Doug Wagemester. The offense fit our USA Basketball U17 team very well as we were tremendously athletic with players like James McAdoo, Quinn Cook, Marques Teague, Tony Wroten, Adonis Thomas, Brad Beal and Michael Gilchrest. It also fits our high school team that is made up of very average basketball players that play very hard and are intelligent using the offense. The ball screens seem to give us an advantage to score against bigger or more athletic teams as well.

The 1-4 offense allows us to use some excellent set plays for certain players. The FIBA rules for our U17 team included a 24 second shot clock which we found does not allow many ball reversals. Iowa does not have a shot clock so we have a chance for several ball reversals. The offense gives us some good options playing with a shot clock or not. When playing with a shot clock we usually got one ball reversal and then looked at our options coming off the screen. One thing we found playing international competition is that the ball screen is defended any number of different methods – hard hedge, double team, switch, and go behind screen – and we had to be aware of the defense used. Playing without a shot clock with our high school team, we found the first screen was defended but the second ball screen on the reverse was not as easily defended so ball reversal gave us many options from the ball screen.

The 20 ball screen offense is easy to teach and the players can run the offense when playing pickup games in an open gym setting. Our younger teams also run the 20 ball screen offense even at the elementary level so they have the basics of the offense. Our U17 team needed an offense that was easy to learn as we had about 10 days of training camp before we played in the World Championships in Germany against excellent competition.

The offense is one that can also be used as a secondary offense and will give the defense a different look.

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