Fast breaks - Ashbury break 5

Fast break - Ashbury Break 5

Ballscreen with 5, e.g. if X5 is a bad ballscreen defender, or to get him away from the basket. Early ballscreens are also denial counters.

- Cross-get
- Butler
- Dive
- Ravens pistol down (Circle option)
- Suns
- Loop
- Fist
- Chin
- Gator
- Boston (L-screen)

See Fast breaks - Ashbury Break, Ashbury Break 4.

1) Cross-get (wing entry)

1 passes to 3, basket cuts and cross-screens for 5, who picks and rolls. 4 dives weakside if he is not a shooter.

Progressions
- 1 can cut to the ballside corner then fill behind as 5 picks and rolls (Mavs)
- if 3 passes to 1 in the ballside corner, 5 backscreens for 3 then ballscreens for 1 (Corner ballscreen).

Mads Olesen - if 5 is a dominant post player, post up then ballscreen.

2) Butler (ball reversal)

The ball is swung to 2, 4 basket cuts, 1 spaces away, 5 picks and rolls (he can set a flat ballscreen, 2 goes right or left).

4 can dribble hand-off and pop, 5 picks and rolls, see Offence - Xavier middle ballscreens (4-out weave).

Variation - 5 sets a UCLA screen for 4 on a pass to 2, then picks and rolls.

3) Dive

4 backcuts (e.g. on denial), 1 dribbles, passes to 3 and spaces away, 5 picks and rolls.

4) Ravens (pistol down with 5)

a) 1 dribbles at 3, if 3 clears, 5 picks and rolls.

Option - 3 circles to backscreen for 5.

b) On a dribble handoff, 1 clears (or pops), 5 ballscreens for 3 (and rolls).

See Offence - Xavier middle ballscreens (Flip wide).

5) Suns

5 sprints out to pick and roll, the ballscreen can be flat or angled, 2 and 3 flatten out, 4 spaces away (or dives weakside).

Olesen - misdirection - 5 sprints up like he is going to set a screen to make 1 go middle but at the last second sets it on the outside.

Here 4 passes to 1 then 5 ballscreens.

Olesen - 4 spots up or optionally kicks back (rotating behind the drive).

6) Loop

4 loops in front of 1 to the ballside wing, 5 sprints up behind 4's cut to pick and roll.

Olesen - quick replace fist - 1 makes a step-back dribble, 4 cuts to the ballside corner, 5 comes up off 4's cut to ballscreen.

See Fast breaks - Versoix specials (Spread fist), Tactics - Van Gundy ballscreens (Shake), Offence - Dribble-drive motion basics.

7) Fist

4 screens for 5, who sprints out to pick and roll, 4 relocates ballside then replaces.

8) Chin

5 backscreens for 4 then picks and rolls, 4 replaces.

Option - 1 first passes to 4, 5 backscreens on a return pass.

Olesen - 4 clears to the ballside corner (pushing up 3), 5 picks and rolls or pops.

See Fast breaks - Versoix specials (Backscreen-ballscreen).

9) Gator

4 pins down for 3, 1 passes to 3, 2 runs the baseline, 5 backscreens for 1 who replaces 2, 5 ballscreens for 3 and rolls, 4 replaces.

For a variation, see Fast break - Florida 2005 (Gator option).

10) Boston

5 sets a step-up screen for 1, 4 sets a shake screen, 2 changes sides, 1 uses either screen, 5 always rolls, 4 pops.

Option - if 1 uses 4, 5 flarescreens for 4 then slips and posts.

See Tactics - Lawrence Frank ballscreens (L-action).

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