Q: Consider a 4 OUT set. The ball at strong side left corner. The strong corner drives baseline; the post slides up to the left side elbow to become the 90 degree pass; the right corner drops to the right low corner to become the Natural Pitch; the left point rotates to the left corner [...]

The question still comes up time and again: If a guard from up top, say on the right side, drives right handed toward the goal, will a player in the right corner cutting to the opposite corner foul up the guard’s ability to finish at the basket? Is this bad timing? Does this mess up [...]

Q: Our staff has enjoyed watching your videos about the Read and React Offense over the spring and is excited to try your concept with our team next season. We have a few questions that I am hoping that you can help us with.
We understand the movements in a 5 OUT set when someone drives, [...]

Q: I run a modified dribble drive motion offense. I teach my players to react to the defense; this reaction dictates their next move, not a set play. The mentality of the player with the ball should be; first, a shooting threat; second, a driving threat; third, a passing threat. Our goal is to always [...]

Q: My girls varsity team is having trouble distinguishing between a speed dribble and penetration dribble, especially if the ball handler is trying to penetrate and goes somewhat North-South, but ends up tailing or quickly going East-West. Is there a definite read on how to distinguish between the two?
A: I have a couple of [...]

Q: If my point guard comes down the court on a 4 OUT, 1 IN set, and penetrates, who is he to pitch to on the strong side if the wing follows the rule and circles under the basket to the opposite side. Do you have an exception to the rule?
A: If the right guard [...]

Q: Let’s say that in a 5 OUT set the top player passes to the wing and begins his basket cut. Upon cutting, the wing player drives to the basket making the first cutter technically a post player. In layer 4’s rules, this would mean that he should step to the short corner [...]

Q: What is your rule for a dribble penetrator who drives to the basket, then passes? It seems that if he passes to a player who is one pass away, then he should follow the standard Pass & Cut rule – basket cut. It seems that the proper movement after a pass to a player [...]

Q: Our team is successfully implementing the Pass & Cut and is slowly forming the necessary rotation habits on the dribble penetration. One situation causes us to struggle: when a baseline player finds herself basket cutting due to a back screen or some other reason only to discover that the ball at the top of [...]

Q: Imagine the ball is in the LEFT corner and the player drives RIGHT in a North/South drive to the goal. This should indicate that the other players rotate RIGHT forcing the player in the opposite corner to cut across the baseline to fill the spot just vacated by the ballhandler. To me, [...]