Ep 1991 Why Do So Few Teams Screen Well, and How Do You Fix It?

https://teachhoops.com/ This one is brought to you by teachhoops.com, where coaches find the teaching progressions that make hard skills coachable. Screening is one of the most valuable and least taught skills in basketball. Every team runs ball screens. Very few teams set good ones. Coach calls it an art because good screening is equal parts technique, timing, and willingness, and all three have to be taught. The technique section covers the fundamentals that get skipped. A wide base, a legal stance, the angle of the screen, and screening the defender rather than the spot on the floor where you assume the defender is. Coach explains why the angle is the single most common failure and why most screens that "did not work" were actually set two feet from where they needed to be. Then the episode gets into the user, which matters just as much. A great screen is wasted by a player who runs past it, refuses to set up the defender, or comes off before it is even set. Coach walks through the setup step, the shoulder to shoulder read, and how the ball handler and the screener have to see the same picture. This is where teams jump from running a play to actually running an offense. The last part is culture. Screening is unselfish work that does not show up in the box score, so it only happens consistently if you make it visible. Praise it out loud, track it, put it on film, and let your best players model it. When a program values screening, spacing improves, shot quality improves, and offense stops depending on one player beating somebody off the dribble. For screening drills and full offensive systems built around them, visit teachhoops.com. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices