Fran Dunphy Temple Owls Horns Set Plays

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February 20, 2015

Fran Dunphy Temple Owls Horns Set Plays

The Temple Owls (19-7, 10-3 AAC) are one of the hottest teams in the nation right now. They have won seven games in a row and sit third in a tightly packed American Athletic Conference race. They enter a pivotal week’s end with games against league-leading SMU and second place Tulsa.

Earlier in the season the Owls pulled off one of the college basketball season’s most eye-popping upsets with a 77-52 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks on December 22.

In that game, the Owls turned the Jayhawks pressure man-to-man and “lock and trail” technique for guarding cutters against them with this “Horns” entry into staggered screen action.

In “Horns” sets, the point guard generally has the options of either entering the ball to one of the “bigs” at the elbows or use a ball screen. This set begins with a ball screen and that ball screen triggers a dizzying array of staggered screens for the Temple guards.

The bigs travel in pairs as they set staggered screens in the opposite direction of the ball screen action. Kansas was mostly “locking and trailing” cutters so the Temple guards curled tightly around the staggered screens.

If the defense dips to the ball side or goes under the staggers, the cutter makes an out cut.

It is important for the point guard to keep his dribble alive while reading the staggered action. As soon as he passes to one of the cutters, he becomes a cutter himself. When one of the bigs screens along the lane line, he should then look to bury his man and post.

This set features great movement and can a weapon against pressure man-to-man and “lock and trail” teams.

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