Emerald Ridge Jaguars 2 Side Series

This is a pro style set we had some success with late in the year.  We had a gifted point guard who was a skilled finisher but also knocked down jumpers if you went under screens on her.  Because of this we gave her as much space as possible to read screens and score.  I give you the 2 side series.

The basic set begins like this, an A-set formation point guard dribbles over to the ft line extended and the ball side guard clears out, while this is happening the ball side post screen to the weak side elbow for the other big who is sprinting into a side ball screen. The offense now plays off that two man game.

To give the defense a different look, or if we saw them switch the elbow to elbow screen, we then ran 2 side slip, so the first big coming to screen would automatically run a slip to the rim and then fill over to the weak side block, and the second big would now sprint into a ball screen.

If a team tried to down the screen started showing really early, we would run 2 side snaps, which the screener would run like they were setting a middle ball screen, then jump into a baseline screen and catch the hedge player out of position.

If the 1 ever had to refuse the screen, or could just turn baseline and score we would space the floor like this:

When we wanted to get a 3, or just make the on ball defender have to work without help from a hedge we would run 2 side pinch, so the 1 would hit the first big at the key line extended and sprint into a hand off.  I initially thought teams would jump hard to deny the hand off and it would set a backdoor cut, but what actually ended up happening is the 1’s defender would relax and it almost always resulted in an open three from the hand off.

Something we never ended up running but I always had in my back pocket for a late game trick play was this look where we would run pinch, but the 4 would fake the hand off like a quarterback and spin and attack the rim.

Key to this was that our pg was dynamic, so whatever read the defense showed our 1 was able to execute the move/shot to score against it.