My Favorite Sets is a weekly series looking at some of my favorite plays from the 2009-2010 and breaking them down using FastModel’s FastDraw program, and then showing you what it looks like live.
Today we are going to look at some of my favorite lob plays that took place over the past season. Lob plays are important, because baskets are really hard to come by in the NBA, so if you can get a backdoor lob at the rim, you take advantage of it. Not only that, but a perfectly run lob play can get the crowd going or take a crowd out of it, depending on where you are playing.
Setting Up Rodrigue Beaubois For A Lob
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My Favorite Sets is a weekly series looking at some of my favorite plays from the 2009-2010 and breaking them down using FastModel’s FastDraw program, and then showing you what it looks like live.
UPDATE: Corrected the Thunder set to show it correctly.
Last time, we looked at my favorite sets coming out of timeouts in dead ball situations. These are set plays drawn up in the huddle, so it is all on the coaches. During non-dead ball situations, it is more on the player to execute. Because it isn’t a quick hitter, where you see one or two quick passes and a shot, players are now forced to react to the defense and go from there.
Celtics Overtime Pick And Roll
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My Favorite Sets is a weekly series looking at some of my favorite plays from the 2009-2010 and breaking them down using FastModel’s FastDraw program, and then showing you what it looks like live.
Deadball situations late in games are my favorite to watch, because it is basically a coaching version of 1 on 1. You got both coaches trying to anticipate what the other is doing and reacting to that. Watching this battle go down live shows you what a coach is made of (in terms of Xs and Os), and if a coach can get his team an open look, that shows you he knows what he is doing with the clipboard. Here are a few that I really liked from this past season:
Spurs Free Up Roger Mason
Against the Cavs, the Spurs found themselves down by three points with about nine seconds left. Needing both a quick hitter and a three pointer the Spurs were able to free up one of their better shooters, Roger Mason:
Box 1 - George Hill gets a brush screen from Roger Mason to get him to the corner, while Manu Ginobili flashes to the midpost, looking for the basketball. After Hill clears Mason, Mason comes off of a Tim Duncan screen, looking to free him up on the outside. Jefferson triggers the ball to Ginobili, who is in the midpost area.
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