In 28 days EuroBasket, an European competition featuring 24 countries and a high number of NBA players.  With the much anticipated exodus of NBA players to Europe not exactly happening (as of yet), this could be the last time you see some really good NBA players play in a true competitive setting for a really long time.  To get everyone more familiar with what we are going to see during the EuroBasket tournament, I am going to look at each team’s offense and break down a few interesting sets that they run, using game tape from the preparation games that are currently being played.

Slovenia, who is in Group D of the preliminary round, starts off their tournament against Bulgaria, and if their preparation games are any indication, we are going to see a lot of interesting sets being run from this team.

Halfcourt Offense

Movement Set

Maybe the most interesting play that Slovenia has been running is a play that features a lot of movement off of the basketball taking place at the same time.  At times, during this set, there are 4 players moving at once off of the ball.  As you can guess, this creates a lot of confusion:

The play starts with the point guard bringing the basketball up and entering it to the wing.  After making the pass, he follows the basketball and meets the wing he just passed it to for a dribble handoff.

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