What's a key option or counter for Spain Pick-and-Roll?

If the roller's defender gets picked off by the back screen, it's often a lob finish at the rim.

What's a key option or counter for Spain Pick-and-Roll?

If the defense switches everything, the ball handler should look to attack the resulting mismatch immediately.

What's a key option or counter for Spain Pick-and-Roll?

The back-screener must time the screen to hit the trailing defender, not the ball handler's defender.

Pick-and-Roll Actions

Ages 16+

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.

Alignment

Action — Ball Screen & Back Screen the Roll

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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A ball-screen action run with the strong side cleared out, giving the ball handler a wide-open driving lane and the screener a clean roll to the rim.

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