Monday, March 21, 2011

Butler takes advantage of Pitt hedging ball screens

In the round of 32 Butler was facing Pittsburgh and their hard hedging ball screen defense.  Butler sets a ton of ball screens within their offense package and one way they get a post up after setting and using several ball screens at the beginning of the possession is having the screener slip to the rim while his defender is setting up for a hard hedge.
In this diagram you can see 5 going to set a ball screen for 1, but slipping to the rim instead while his defender (X5) is preparing to execute a hard hedge.  1 will pass to 2 on the wing filling up instead of using the screen and 2 looks to feed 5 in the post who should be able to obtain good deep position if his defender is hedging.

The key to this play is timing and Butler's was superb.  5 can't slip too early or his defender won't begin hedging and 2 has to time his fill up so he is open when 1 is ready to deliver the pass. 

How will your team exploit other teams electing to hard hedge ball screens?

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