Tony Bennett Virginia Blocker Mover Offense
Although they were handed their second loss of the season this past weekend on the road at Louisville, Virginia has been one of the most consistent basketball programs in the country the last couple of seasons. They have clinched their second straight ACC regular season championship, and they are primed for a deep run in the National Tournament. It is well known that they do a great job on the defensive end. Their pack-line defense suffocates offenses, as they are the number one team in the country in scoring defense, only allowing right about 50 points per game.
I really like what they do offensively as well. They have a very sound approach in that they try to limit mistakes and turnovers, they aggressively seek great shots, and they overall make smart decisions. Their Blocker Mover offense is a 3 out 2 in motion offense where the bigs, or the ‘blockers’ screen the guards, or the ‘movers.’
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The beauty of blocker mover offense is the spacing and the placement and timing of their actions. The guards are in a ‘top-side-side’ alignment where there is always a guard up top, usually with the ball, and guards on both wings, spacing the defense out, and using and receiving screens from their bigs.
The bigs are on opposite sides of the lane setting any and every kind of screen possible looking to get the guards open in space and diving to the basket and posting up looking for scoring opportunities of their own. Depending on personnel and skill-set, you can have your bigs hug the lane line in a ‘Lane-Lane’ alignment, you can have your bigs wider in a ‘Wide-Wide’ alignment, or you mix it up in a ‘Lane-Wide’ alignment.
The blocker mover offense creates scoring opportunities for both guards and bigs and, being ‘motion’ by nature, it can be very unpredictable. This offense only has a few rules:
– The blockers generally stay on their side of the lane, screening the guard movers on their side and slipping and posting up on their side as well.
– Bigs can also step out to the top of the key or high on the wings and become ball movers.
– The movers pass and cut and maintain their top-side-side alignment while using screens from the blockers.
While it is not a patterned offense, Virginia has certain actions that you see repeatedly. I have diagrammed some of their more popular actions, along with some other scoring actions you can teach and dictate or use as quick-hitters.
I have also created a video showing all of the scoring plays Virginia had in their game earlier this season to Duke. They lost this game 69-63, but it is a good look of how they run their offense:
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