Matt Hackenberg Basketball

The 2-2-1 press forces teams to pass through the press...

Making a variety of players handle the ball and make decisions

Circle Motion:

It’s just a matter of time until you find a defender asleep

Read & React

When the defender is on the "read line" plant the outside foot and hit the backdoor

"I don’t want to go through that again"

A quote from Coach Bill Herrion after playing against PRESS VIRGINIA

Flex porn for the hoops sickos

Bear Offense

I hate just sitting a post on the block and trying to throw them the ball

I much prefer cutting into the post and shaping up

(plus you may get the opportunity for a switch mismatch to attack by screening into the post)

Spain = Confusion

Requiring three defenders to communicate (well)

Bold move calling for the clear out 1v1 with Jevon Carter....

Check out those high hands in the trap

Press Virginia

Braden Smith - good ball player

Circle Motion scales to every level - youth to varsity

Movement, spacing, and reads

All that movement in 7 seconds 👀

A post-oriented zone offense with a baseline runner

To add variation, 1 can run the baseline to fill or 3 can "drag and pull" 2

Both concepts create the overload we are looking for

Coaches say: “Deny and Disrupt Defense only works if you’re super athletic.”

Wrong.

It works if you teach it right, and you execute.

Spread ball screens optimize the space around the ball screen

Add in false motion and good luck to the defense

Often times these days, the stagger isn’t the action

The counters are

Circle Motion punishes ball-watchers

You relax, someone cuts

Show Spain. Counter hard.

Dirty tricks from Mark Few

Horns set for a slashing 4

Roll & Replace action off the corner ball screen

An easy, yet unique, BLOB concept

Overload the zone with a tight curl

In frame 2, 1 holds 2 defenders

If x4 slides towards the middle, 1 drifts farther towards the corner

Fake the Flex, flipping the screen into a stagger

Never let the defense get too comfortable

This Duke team, with 5 NBA draft picks including 3 in the lottery, DID NOT win it all

Coaching is hard

Stack Overload

A signature of Bill Self's ZONE ATTACK

1. Why are deep corner inbounds even a thing?

2. Do you teach your players to slip screens?

Curl the screen when the defender chases on a trail

It takes time for players to learn how to read screens properly

Horns roll & pop into 4 around 1 spacing

Just enough movement and disguise to really hammer the HILO game

The lob isn’t sneaky... But the design is

Kevin Young at BYU 👏

"Viper" | 2 is your shooter

If 2 is covered, we should have 5 open near the short corner

As a changeup, Press Virginia could go to 1-2-2 press

Nonetheless, opponents could find themselves in some sticky situations

Somehow Coach McDermott is both simple and creative at the same time