Basketball Plays from Coach's Clipboard (2024)

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Basketball Plays Categories

• General plays and 3-2 motion plays
• 4-out motion offense plays
• Horns set plays
• Floppy Screen and Plays
• Pistol Actions
• Bo Ryan's Swing Offense Plays
• Box-set plays
• 1-4 set offense plays
• 1-3-1 set offense plays
• Zone offense plays
• Last-second plays, buzzer beaters
• Out-of-bounds plays
• More miscellaneous plays

Plays designed to get shots for your point guard O1. Including links to many other point guard plays.

A number of plays designed to get shots for your shooting guard O2, including links to many other plays for O2.

A series of several plays vs man-to-man defense, run out of the 4-out offense. These plays mainly are designed to get your good post players the ball inside.

A series of several plays that you can run against man-to-man or zones. Especially good if you have a good point guard, but O2 and your post players will get shots too.

A series of several plays that uses your post player as a screener and scorer.

Plays for the 5-out open post offense.

Stockton and Malone pick and roll

A high pick and roll set that you can run with any man-to-man offense.

Simple post to post motion and plays vs man-to-man defense, run out of the 3-out, 2-in motion offense. These plays are also designed to get your good post players the ball inside, even when the low post is being fronted ("High-2" and "High-3").

Several plays designed to get you an open 3-point shot. Included are man-to-man quick hitters, zone plays, sideline and baseline out-of-bounds plays.

Plays vs man-to-man defense, to run out of the 3-out, 2-in motion offense. Including links to several other 3-2 motion plays.

Plays vs man-to-man defense, to run out of the 3-out, 2-in motion offense.

28 of Michigan State's (Coach Tom Izzo) sets and plays, including man-to-man and zone plays, and baseline and sideline out-of-bounds plays.

Coach Tom Izzo

BYU Cougars offensive actions from Lason Perkins.

Set plays that you can run with the dribble-drive offense.

Set plays with multiple options that you can run with the Princeton offense.

A play used by coach Steve Fisher at San Diego State University

A popular play to use against man-to-man defense that features O2 curling around the staggered double down-screen.

Run this out of your 3-out, 2-in offense against man-to-man defense. These plays feature several options including 3-point shots for O2 or O3, , a pass to O1 cutting inside, a pass into the post, and a "slip" option. You can run it right or left.

Great play if you have an O1 who can dribble left and penetrate, or if your O3 is a good outside shooter. Run this vs man-to-man defenses and you can run it out of the 4-out set, the 3-out 2-in set, or a 1-3-1 set. "Loyola-2" gets O4 open for a lay-up.

Run this out of your 3-out, 2-in offense. With this play, you can get a shot for O2 or O4, or a post up inside for O3.

The "Redhawk" plays feature two double-screens and gets players moving and cutting, each with several options, and shots for O2.

Run this out of your 3-out, 2-in offense. Inside (O5) and outside (O3) options, and an "alley-oop" option to O4.

Run this out of your 3-out, 2-in offense against man-to-man defense. Usually a lay-up for O5 or O1.

Also run this out of the 3-out, 2-in offense. This is good play to get O3 (left wing) involved with dribble-penetration and a pick and roll. But you could end up with a big-little inside post advantage.

Also run this out of the 3-out, 2-in offense vs man-to-man or zone defenses.

Run out of the 3-2 set, a good play with several options for O4 and O2.

A good play to run when O1 is getting a lot of outside pressure. A back-screen and often a lay-up for O4.

A good play starting with a box set, with a number of options, and often a lay-up for O4 or O5.

This play starts in the high post, with a back-cut, staggered screens, a hand-off, and a flex-cut.

If you've got a guy who can dunk... this is a back-side, alley-oop, high-lob pass and dunk.

Run this against man-to-man defense. A back-door screen, cut and lay-up for O1.

These plays can be run out of any motion offense. You get either a 3-point shot or a shot from the free-throw line for either O2 or O3. Or you may get a lay-up with the "Back" option.

A simple screen-the-screener play with a slip option.

Run these plays using the low double stack set. M2M, zone and OB plays are included.

Also see "Shocker" Play - from Gregg Marshall.

Run these plays using the 1-4 set offense.

Run these plays using the 1-4 set offense.

Bill Self's zone plays.

Coach Bill Self

Run these plays against against the 2-3 zone defense.

For attacking 2-3 and 3-2 zone defenses.

For attacking 2-3 zone defenses.

Run these plays against any 1-guard zone defense (1-2-2, 1-3-1, 3-2), a tightly packed 2-3 zone defense, or the box and 1 defense.

Seconds left and you are inbounding the ball at half-court.

More last second half-court and full-court baseline and sideline plays.

Six stack (or line) inbounds plays vs man-to-man are presented.

"Box" formation inbounds plays to run against man-to-man defense.

Run these inbounds plays against man-to-man defense, using a 4-across low-stack.

Several other good baseline out-of-bounds plays.