Spain Pick-and-Roll
A modern ball-screen action where a shooter sets a back screen on the roller's own defender, springing a lob or open rim run as the screener rolls to the basket.
Pick-and-Roll ActionsAges 16+
The breakdown
Reads & options
- 1.If the roller's defender gets picked off by the back screen, it's often a lob finish at the rim.
- 2.If the defense switches everything, the ball handler should look to attack the resulting mismatch immediately.
- 3.The back-screener must time the screen to hit the trailing defender, not the ball handler's defender.
Coaching points
- This is an advanced action — teach the standard ball screen first before layering in the back screen.
- The screener rolling hard and the back-screener stepping up have to be synchronized, or the defender simply avoids the pick.
- Spacing the opposite corner keeps a help defender from cheating into the action early.
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