Stack Offense #2 - Man-to-Man Offense

Stack Offense #2

Offense against a man-to-man defense

This offensive set is another set play off the Stack set.  Effective against a man-to-man defense, this play is designed to relieve defensive pressure to create an easy lay-up opportunity.  This is how this is run:

1. This offense is set up in a two-guard set, your point guard with the ball, with your small forward and center stacked on the ball-side block with your 4-man (PF) on the opposite block.  The second guard should be a player who is being pressured defensively.  If he's being denied the ball, he should be about the same distance from the basket as the point guard.
2. This play starts out with your center flashing to the elbow with your small forward jetting out from the elbow.  Your small forward will follow your center to the elbow, then cut out to create space.  All of this action is simply a decoy.  Your point guard will make it appear as if he's trying to enter the ball to the small forward.  Then, unable to enter the pass, your point should dribble back towards your shooting guard.  Your shooting guard should take a step or two towards your point guard.
3. While your point is dribbling towards your shooting guard, your power forward will flash hard to the high post.  Your point should throw a firm bounce pass to the high post.
4. Immediately as the point guard passes the ball to the high post, your shooting guard will cut straight to the basket.  If the shooting guard's defender is putting pressure on the shooting guard, this should result in a quick bounce pass to the cutting guard for a lay-up.  This is option 1,  the main point of this play, but it doesn't stop here if this pass cannot be made.
5. If the shooting guard doesn't get it, he will cut through to the opposite corner.  Then, the point guard will run off the high post looking for a hand-off for a lay-up, and while this is happening, your small forward and center set a double-screen for your shooting guard coming up.  This should result in one of these shots, and as always, if the defense switches, the center should slip the screen for a lay-up.