Coach Anderson- Williamsfield
You’re coming out of a time out and it’s your ball. Here are some things you need to think about….
1- Do you run a set play?
2- Are you ready if they deny the ball inbounds?
3- Are you ready if they trap you?
4- You may want to come out and use a different man or zone offense if you have the ability.
5- Lastly, this happened to me when I was still coaching. The game was tied and we had the ball. I called a time out to set something for the last shot. We ran a pick and roll with two of our best players vs their man defense. Our man with the ball came off the pick and took it to the hole, scored and we won.
Later I got to thinking about the situation. What would have happened if they had gone zone? What would have happened if they would have denied the ball inbounds? What would have happened if they had throw a half-court trap against us?
From that time on, I made sure we were ready for these things coming out of a time out.
Coach Massey’s Thoughts
Coach Anderson brings up some valuable things to consider.
What are you going to do as a coach to be prepared to go against different defenses in last second shots?
** Do you want a set play that you will always run in a last shot of the game? The logic would be that you come up with something that the players will be familiar. Perhaps you make the call, “Buzzer Beater,” and your players know this is what we do. Obviously the weakness is that as teams scout, you become harder to guard.
** Do you want to use one of your regular sets or do you want to run something that opponents will be unfamiliar with?
** Do you want to develop a set to use regardless of whether the opponents play man or zone?
** Do you want to come out of the huddle with a zone play and a mm play?
** As one analyzes the “stress” in being prepared for different defenses, does it convince you to change your defense vs last shot? Or if you have not been trapping ball screens, do you want to trap ball screens?
In the early part of my career, we ran one play for then end of quarters and end of games. And we ran one ob for last second situations at the end of quarters and end of games.
As I became more experienced, we started varying what we ran. Looking back, we were much more effective when we just did the same thing in late game and late quarter situations. There was no hesitation on the player’s part, they had a high level of confidence. The big thing is that by running the same thing, they were comfortable reacting to what the defense did vs them- and were comfortable whether it was mm or zone defense.
We ran a simple middle ball screen. Vs. MM, the point guard read the defense, looked for their shot, looked for the roll, #5 flashing, or if time permitted the reverse. Usually our best options were the point guard shooting, the roll or the flash by #5. If it was zone, we usually would look at #5 flashing and the reverse.
If we wanted someone other than the point guard to run the pick and roll, that year we would loop the other guard to the top and let them run it.
Here are detailed options of things the point guard might do or read.
Our last second baseline ob was a simple screen away. The variation that we ran to it was when the post screened away, when the opposite post cut (#4), they just popped back. We usually found when teams would switch, the defender switching onto #4 would be low protecting the basket. We wanted the last shot to be by #4 about 10-12 feet out. The other two options were #5 on the seal or #1 floating to the weakside corner. Vs. zones especially, #1 would get an open shot regularly as the defense worked to defend the seal.
If I were starting over in coaching, I would go back to having an “automatic last shot.” We did not have to take a time out, we could just go into what we wanted.
And as a coach, you still have the option to take a time out and call another play. As coach, I would choose to always run a play that the team is familiar with, versus making up a new play that has not been practiced.
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