Tubby Smith Kentucky Wildcats 1-4 High Set Plays by Wes Kosel

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August 16, 2014

Tubby Smith Kentucky Wildcats 1-4 High Set Plays by Wes Kosel

Attached are five 1-4 High set plays from when Tubby Smith was the Head Coach for the Kentucky Wildcats. Smith is now the head coach at Texas Tech where he looks to turn around the Red Raiders program. He started his coaching career at Tulsa and coached at Georgia for two seasons before taking the job at Kentucky. While at Kentucky, Smith compiled a 263-83 record winning 76% of his games. He also led the Wildcats to a NCAA National Championship in 1997-1998. In all, Smith has won 525 games, 5 Conference Coach of the Year Awards (2 Missouri Valley, 3 SEC), and has 17 NCAA Tournament Appearances. If he can get his Red Raiders to the NCAA Tournament, he will have led every team he has coached to an NCAA appearance.

Tubby Smith Kentucky Wildcats 1-4 High Set Plays – Hi/Lo
1 passes to 3 as 5 screens for 4. 4 cuts to the basket and 5 flashes to the elbow. If 5 gets the ball he looks hi/lo to 4.

Tubby Smith Kentucky Wildcats 1-4 High Set Plays – Point Through
1 passes to 4 stepping out from the high post. 1 cuts through the lane as 5 rubs behind him to the ball-side block. If neither option is open, 4 passes to 3 who passes to 1 cutting to the wing. 5 then screens up for 4 and 3 screens down for 5. 2 screens in for 3 who cuts to the wing. 5 passes to 3 then cuts to the basket off of a screen from 2.

Tubby Smith Kentucky Wildcats 1-4 High Set Plays – Zipper
1 dribbles to the right wing as 2 makes a zipper cut off of 4. 1 passes to 2. Once 2 has the ball, he dribbles off of a ball-screen from 5 as 5 rolls to the basket.

Tubby Smith Kentucky Wildcats 1-4 High Set Plays – PTP
1 dribbles to the right wing as 2 screens across the lane for 5. 4 then screens for 2 who cuts up for a shot.

Tubby Smith Kentucky Wildcats 1-4 High Set Plays – PTP Double
1 dribbles to the right wing as 2 screens across the lane for 3. If 3 isn’t open, 1 looks to pass to 2 cutting off of a double screen from 5 and 4.

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.