Roy Williams North Carolina Tarheels Lob Plays by Wes Kosel

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May 23, 2014

Roy Williams North Carolina Tarheels Lob Plays by Wes Kosel

Attached in this playbook are two lob plays from Coach Roy Williams. The first play is an option out of North Carolina’s secondary offense, and the second play is a baseline out-of-bounds play from a box set. Both of these plays utilize a decoy player that clears the lane for the lob pass.

Roy Williams North Carolina Tarheels Lob Plays – Secondary Lob

This secondary option is signaled by 1 dribbling from the wing toward the top of the key. As 1 starts toward the top of the key, 5 steps toward 1 and sets a ball-screen. 4 moves across the lane away from the ball. As 1 comes off of the ball-screen from 5, 4 moves up the lane line to bring his defender away from the basket. 3 moves in from the corner and sets a rear screen on 5 who just set the ball screen for 1. 1 looks to make a lob pass to 5 for a dunk or lay-up. If the lob isn’t open, 1 passes to 3 who steps out after screening for 5. 3 then dribbles toward the wing and looks to create a passing angle to pass to 5 in the post. If 5 isn’t open, 3 passes to 2 cutting off of a staggered wide pin down screen from 1 and 4.

Roy Williams North Carolina Tarheels Lob Plays – Baseline Lob

In this BLOB play, 3 moves first cutting to the ball-side corner off of a screen from 4. If open, 3 takes the shot. If 3 isn’t open, 5 cuts hard to the baseline looking to take his defender away from the action in the lane. 2 then screens down for 4 who just screened for 3. 4 loops around 2 looking for the lob pass from 1.

Wes Kosel is an assistant coach for men’s basketball under Head Coach Doug Novak at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kosel joined the staff at Bethel after serving two seasons at Texas Lutheran University and one season at Haskell Indian Nations University. Kosel has an undergraduate degree in Exercise Science from the University of Kansas, and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Physical Education from the University of Houston. The Bartlesville, OK native is also a NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), and taught weight training and aerobic fitness courses while coaching at Texas Lutheran. He has coached AAU programs, volunteered with elementary and middle school basketball teams, and has worked basketball camps for various programs including the Houston Rockets, University of Houston, Texas State, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi.