Film Session: The Pick & Roll In The NBA
When you watch a NBA game, there is a pretty good chance that you will see a pick and roll ran a couple times. It is one of the few sets that you see every team in the NBA run. The reason? When run correctly, the pick and roll is probably the hardest play in the NBA to defend. This is because there are so many options: you got the guy coming off the screen, you have the screener either rolling to the basket or popping out for a jumper. Not only that, but because you have all eyes focused on the two men running the pick and roll there are opportunities for the cutters or guys spotting up for 3. I put together a video of all 30 teams running the pick and roll. What I think is awesome about this (besides the fact I made it) is that this is one play ran just about 30 different ways. Enjoy (3 or 4 NSFW words in there):
Notice the screener turns the wrong way almost every single time.
@crase42
heh, I do notice that. I guess when you are that quick and athletic, you don’t need to turn the proper way. Good job noticing…
The bobcats included??
Yup, Flip Murray comes off a screen and hits a pull up jumper. It is somewhere in the middle.
I assume that the screener is supposed to turn towards the ball handler? it looks like brook lopez does it correctly. i see why players turn away from the ball though, so they can turn into the guy that they’re screening to set a harder screen.
is that right?
“see a pick and roll ran a couple times.”
Correctly, it is see a pick and roll RUN a couple times. Why are all you jock bloggers only semiliterate, is it a prerequisite?
As a matter of fact, it is.