Basketball Playbook Vocabulary by Nathan Hill
Basketball Playbook Vocabulary 5 sections: Cuts, Screens, Screening actions, ball screens, alignments.
As a first year head coach I came into my first job with a new staff, and new players that had never met me. I had to introduce my staff and players to my terminology. I did not make this document until after I was at the school. I am now an assistant coach, and came up with these documents for our program. Having the same terminology across the program is very important. The same terminology lets players and coaches use the “chunking” method. It is easy to remember one action with a name, for scouting purposes and introducing plays. I think these documents can be very beneficial to a program for coaches, and players at all levels.
I have named all these actions by watching and reading coaching books and articles. These are some common actions, but I also have created some for myself, and our program.
Cuts:
These are all single actions that can happen in practices and games. I tried to come up with all the cuts we use in all of our offenses and plays, and label them correctly. There are also post feed options.
Screens:
Again, I tried to label our cuts to easily communicate with our players and coaches. What is back-screen, flare screen, cross screen etc… We want to be a great screening team and try to take 2 illegal screens a game.
Screening actions:
I listed common actions we run, and see in our scouters. We may call these by our play names, or a by an action. Flex, floppy, screen the screener, power action. This is helpful for our scouting breakdown.
Ball Screens:
I watched a ball screen video from Lawrence Frank of the NBA and he labeled every kind of action ran in the NBA. Spread pick and roll, roll and replace, step up screen, etc….
Alignments:
This helps with scouting if we all use same vocabulary 1-4 high, 3 out 2 in, princeton set, double stack etc. I have also used press-breaker alignments.
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