Hanlen ballscreens
 | 1 Drew Hanlen Team Shooting & Toughness Drills Part I Basketball Manitoba (YouTube) Ballscreens are very simple at the high-school level. Keys are 1. Sneak a peak downhill before you come off the screen, read your teammates and the coverage. 2. Lose your primary defender - reject the screen and beat them, or run them into the screen, get them trailing. 3. Can you reject the screen? If yes, reject it, because there is no coverage waiting for you. 4. Can you split the coverage? If you come off and see the screen defender hedging out, you will have an advantage if you split through (e.g. crossover). 6. Can you get around the coverage? You will still have an advantage if you can get around quickly. 7. Can you drag (extend) the coverage? Eventually you will have an option to throw it back to a teammate who can take advantage. Against hedge coverage, options are (in order) reject, split, get around, drag the coverage. Against drop coverage (the screen defender drops off), options are reject, pocket jump shot, snake to the rim (split), fake the snake. Hanlen - How to read ballscreens a) drop coverage - reject - use the screen and shoot - snake (split) - get around - drag the big to create a switch for a 1-on-1 or a big rolling to post a guard b) blitz (hedge) coverage - reject - split - get around - drag the big. Hanlen - Beating drop coverages - reject - early split (before the screen) - shoot off the screen - snake - get around - create a switch. Hanlen - Defence goes under the screen - try to turn the corner, pop back, then a re-screen is lower. Hanlen - Switch coverage - the first read is reject, often the on-ball defender is so worried that the screener is going to roll and post them that they try to jump and get under. A second read is to slip, which causes confusion between the defenders. Chris Oliver - Boomerang passing concept - on a switch, the ballhandler can attack the mismatch with the help of a boomerang pass (pass and get it back). Rick Majerus - double mismatch - space and drive the big on a switch for a mismatch on the drive and a big on small rebounding mismatch if the shot is missed. See Tactics - Bill Self ballscreens, 5star pick and roll, Dave Smart using sidescreens, Calipari pick and roll, Shooting - Sackmann ballscreens, YouTube playlist - Ballscreen reads. |
 | 2 Progressions Use these for shooting and finishing. See Shooting - Procopio sidescreen, Dave Smart 1 on 0 sidescreens. a) Reject the screen Back down, start to attack the screen, your defender cuts you off, reject it (e.g. crossover or between the legs), into a mid-range shot. Hanlen - How to reject ballscreens - from a closed stance protecting the ball, hip switch and crossover downhill. Luke Meier - How to use ballscreens - go behind the back to reject. Ouse - Spin seal - cross-step uphill, spin seal (reverse dribble) to reject the screen. Augie Johnston - to use a pick and roll, start with the ball in your outside hand, dribble down, change hands (he goes through the legs), back your defender in or use a crab dribble. To refuse a screen, dribble down, go through the legs, - take a step to the middle with the baseline foot (here the right foot), at the same time pound the ball and go right into a spin move (he shows a reverse dribble), finish with a shot or at the rim, - or hesitate, crossover baseline. |
 | 3 b) Split Start to come off, when you see the screen defender hedging, fake up then split through, a long, low (crossover) dribble. Early split - split before the screen if the screen defender hedges and your defender leaves space between you and the screen. Hanlen - Beating drop coverages - split before the screen, e.g. after a couple of rejects, the defender is really forcing into the screen. Mike Lee - Best ballscreen drill - split a separated show, sell over the top, plant and punch it through (push cross). Johnston - there are two ways to split the hedge, - pound crossover (keep it low, next dribble with the other hand) - behind the back. |
 | 4 c) Get around the coverage Float (hesitate) and open up your hips (throw your butt to the logo in the jump circle), eyes downhill, go around the hedge, get to the nail for a shot. Sackmann - Attacking the vertical hedge - turn-out dribble and step out, attack the top foot. Tony Watson - Attack the hedge - one dribble bounce-out and go around, or attack right at his knee. Mike Lee - Best ballscreen drill - against a show attached to the screener, it's like an inside-out dribble, jab, step out, ideally the inside foot gets around to seal him. Sackmann - Pick and roll vs a trap - bounce out and bounce pass to a short roll, spin seal (go back where you came from), or get around middle. Kirby Schepp - if there is a hard hedge, a third player comes to the ball looking to make a triangle pass to the roller. |
 | 5 d) Drop coverage A lazy big or a shot-blocker who drops back. The first option is to reject the screen, the second is come off for a pocket jump shot. The third option is snake it to the rim (shown), come off the screen like you are going to get to the nail then wrap it (e.g. crossover), finish with a right-hand touch shot (not a layup). DJ Sackmann - Lift footwork - skip hesitation pull-up (look off the big). Mike Lee - Best ballscreen drill - come off the screen, one-dribble pull-up (your defender goes over, drop coverage). Hanlen - Beating drop coverages - attack the screener's inside shoulder. If the screener rolls, passing options include a short-roll pocket pass, a lob at the rim (behind the big), and a lift guy behind the play whose defender is tagging the roller. |
 | 6 If you can't split (snake it), it's an automatic inside-out after the screen, into a pull-up shot or go downhill for a left-hand finish (shown). |
 | 7 e) Bump-off re-screen This happens a lot, the on-ball defender does a good job of getting over the screen, you end up accomplishing nothing. The solution is that as soon as the on-ball defender gets past the screen (and squares up on the ball), the ballhandler pops back and uses the screen the other way (using a pullback crossover). The pop back hopefully brings the defender towards you which sets up the re-screen action. Can also re-screen if your defender goes under the screen, pop back and square up, the screener changes the screening angle and gets closer to the rim. Another option is to shoot from behind the screen. Mike Lee - Best ballscreen drill - re-screen - your defender goes under, 180 pivot by the screener, plant and change direction, come right back off into a pull-up, there should be nobody there. Nobody can guard it at the high-school level if you do it right. Sackmann - Hop footwork shooting - you have to be able to shoot a 3 if your defender goes under, hop on the inside foot, land on two (a 1-2 all the time is tough). See Shooting - Thrive23 footwork (Hop pull-ups). Sackmann - Side-step footwork - your defender goes under, step out with the outside (ballside) foot, back the other way to shoot inside-outside behind the screen. Chris Oliver - Cat and mouse - read the recovering defender, attack opposite. Dr. Dish - Hesitation moves - against a hedge and under, pullback, cross and shoot or attack the other way. Reid Ouse - Ballscreen reads - on a hard hedge, re-screen with butt to the baseline, cross and attack downhill.  |
This page was made with Basketball playbook from Jes-Soft