Sackmann ballscreens
 | 1 DJ Sackmann Ballscreen workouts, with reads and options. 1) Drag screen 3) Middle ballscreen See YouTube playlist - Ballscreen reads, also Tactics - Hanlen ballscreens. 1) Drag screen See YouTube video - How to use a drag screen. A drag screen is a screen set by the trailing big, which typically initiates a secondary break opportunity (or hit the trailer). "Pin-ball dribbling" using three cones - 1 starts with the ball in his outside hand, goes between the legs, skips and goes between the legs again at the next cone, takes two steps (inside-outside) into a speed-stop exchange at the last cone, opens up (shoulders to the mid-line), bounces out with the left hand, drops, attacks middle with two dribbles into a pull-up jump shot (the middle cone is a screen). Progression - 2 goes when 1 gets to the last cone, 1 can't attack middle until 2 goes between the legs at the second cone, 1 goes right off his back. On a side pick and roll, open up the shoulders to the mid-line, you can hit the trailer, come off a screen, or reject the screen (with a push crossover). Variation - skip hesitation pull-up (look off the big), see Sackmann Lift footwork.  |
 | 2) Side ballscreen See YouTube video - Ballscreen workout. Two cones on each sideline. a) From the bottom cone, turn-out dribble and bound (out to a drop position), attack middle, on the first dribble look at (look off) the big (roll, pop), get inside the nail on the next dribble for a pull-up jumper. Reid Ouse - Cross-step - from a drop position, take a slow cross-step and go. Progressions b) Refuse the screen Bound, push crossover, look at the screener (who would pop or rim run on the refusal), another dribble to a pull-up jumper. Find a gap if the corner is occupied. See YouTube video - Refusing the ballscreen. Ouse - Spin seal - cross-step uphill, spin seal (reverse dribble) to reject the screen. Also see Sackmann Spin-seal workout, and Shooting - Drop series (Ballscreens). |
 | 3 c) Split the screen Bound, inside-out dribble, one dribble using the screen, push crossover, floater or runner. For a transition floater, hop off the inside foot, land on two or outside-inside. See YouTube video - Ballscreen split footwork. d) Zone coverage The screen defender zones up, is late to hedge. From the slot, two dribbles to the wing (L-R-L-R), exchange (behind the back), open up shoulders to the midline, drop, one dribble, hop off the inside foot, land on two for 2-point or 3-point shot. Mike Lee - Best ballscreen drill - get your defender to the level of the screen, not necessarily the ball to the level of the screen. |
 | 3) Middle screen See YouTube video - Middle pick and roll drill. Three cones, the top cone is a screen. a) Start outside the top of the key, ball in the left hand, go between the legs (or any change of direction) to the elbow area, stop inside-outside, exchange the ball behind the back (speed-stop exchange), drop the inside (left) foot back, bounce out, land in a drop, turn the corner, get into a runner (floater), inside hand off the outside foot, go 3 times, switch sides. Sackmann - Three-cone drills - 1 goes off the back of the next player at the middle cone - horns set - make a move at the top cone into a hop pull-up off the inside foot at one of the second cones. See Dribbling - Relph 3-cone series (Ballscreen refusal). |
 | 5 b) Snake the screen As you start to turn the corner, the screen defender zones it and the on-ball defender goes over, pause, snake the screen (e.g. push crossover) back to the opposite elbow for a pull-up. It's hard for a right-hander to go 1-2, you might have to hop and land on two. See YouTube video - Snaking options, also Kyrie Irving brake check. |
 | 6 c) Fake the snake The on-ball defender goes over the screen, attached to your hip (or maybe goes under and re-engages), show a snake or split using an inside-out dribble, load up, run into space with a right-left cross-step, shoot. See YouTube video - Fake snake, also YouTube playlist - Lateral separation, Shooting - Snake pull-ups. (Variations) - shoot from behind the screen - skip hesi pull-up - attack a hedge. Sackmann - Hop footwork shooting - hop on the inside foot, land on two, you have to be able to shoot a 3 if your defender goes under, a 1-2 all the time is tough. See Shooting - Thrive23 footwork (Hop pull-ups). Sackmann - Attacking the vertical hedge - turn-out dribble and step out, attack the top foot. 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. |
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