Portland Trail Blazers Re-Screen Action

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I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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June 8, 2015

Portland Trail Blazers Re-Screen Action

The 2014-15 Portland Trail Blazers earned the #4 seed in a brutal Western Conference with a record of 51-31 on the season. Despite an eventual first round loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, the season could be seen as a big success after losing starting shooting guard Wesley Matthews to a season ending injury.

The Portland Trail Blazers were led by an efficient offense that ranked 8th in the league in offensive efficiency, scoring at a rate 105.5 points-per-hundred possessions according to NBA.com. They were also 8th in the league in 3-point shooting percentage averaging 36.2% on the season. The Blazers ranked 1st in the NBA in free-throw percentage as well shooting an unheard of 80.1% from the free throw line as a team.

The following video and diagrams are some re-screen actions that the Portland Trail Blazers would run for starting wing Nicolas Batum. As you will see from the videos the action starts with one of their bigs, either Lamarcus Aldridge or Robin Lopez, setting a flare screen or back screen for Batum. Usually after the initial action is defended Batum’s defender is caught on the wrong side of the screen.

Batum’s defender will usually chase him over the screen on the high side before squaring him up. As soon as his defender picks his shoulders up Batum comes back off a down screen set by the same big guy and gets a pass from Lillard. His defender is usually a step behind and trails the cutter but on a couple of the sets didn’t get any support from the big. The big helped defend the initial flare screen and then didn’t give help on the re-screen. Batum recognized this and curled to the hoop where he had clean looks at the rim.

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Coach John Zall just completed his first season as an Assistant Coach at Division II Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH. This past season Franklin Pierce University won 20 games and advanced to the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament. Zall arrived at Franklin Pierce after spending the past 3 seasons as the Associate Head Coach/Head JV Coach at O’Bryant High school in Roxbury, MA. During his tenure at O’Bryant the program improved from 4 wins to 12 wins and qualified for the MIAA State Tournament twice.

Coach Zall also has experience as an AAU Head Coach for the Boston Warriors. As Head Coach for the Warriors his team won the 2011 16U State Title and twice competed in AAU Nationals down in Orlando, FL. On top of being a student at Northeastern University, Zall was named Head Coach of the Men’s Club Basketball team for the 2012-13 season. During his lone season as Head Coach, Northeastern finished second in the Northeast Regional Tournament featuring colleges from throughout the East Coast. Coach Zall has also spent time as a Head Coach in the Bay State Games where his team won the Bronze Medal in 2012 and at various camps including: Five Star, Boston Celtics, NIKE, Franklin Pierce University, Hoop Group and The Elite 75.

Click on the pdf link below to download the Portland Trail Blazers Re-Screen Action: