The Flare Screen Shooting Drill focuses on teaching the timing, angles, and footwork involved in executing off-ball flare screens.
This drill emphasizes creating separation on the perimeter, reading the defender’s positioning, and shooting off movement.
It is especially useful for perimeter players and teams that use spacing-based offenses or want to integrate screen-the-screener and flare actions into their playbook.
Objectives
- Practice the foundation of the Lock Indirect.
- Warm-up with a wheel of foundations collective.
Recommended age
- From 12 years onwards (big basket).
Number of players
- From 3 players forward.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 3-5 minutes.
- You can go introducing the variants in the following rounds. In the wheels of shot, what is more important is that the players run fluently.
Equipment and facilities
- Minimum 2-3 balls. Recommended to have a proportion of 1 ball for each group of 3 players.
- A half-Basketball court (although you can also convert the exercise-hybrid -see variants).
Initial layout and description
There are three rows spread over half court. In the row in the middle, all the players with the ball.
The first player from the middle row (Player 2) makes a pass to the first player of the row in the left (Player 3) while receiving a blockage downstream of the first player of the row right (Player 1).
Take the lock indirect to be opened to the opposite side, making out in the Flare of the Lock indirect and receive the pass back from the left side of the pitch (Attention, this pass should go well tense up. Being a wheel 3×0 you can commit the error of giving the pass with trajectories that then they are not viable in game 5×5)
Player 2 makes a stop, block feet and throwing in to the basket. After the shooting, the self-rebotea and heads back to the half court, changing the row.
Player 1 who put on the lock indirect Flare (also called Bengal), rotates to the middle row.
The player 2, who took the lock indirect, rotates to the row of the left and passes the ball to player 1.
Player 3, which gave the pass to player 2 (taker Lock Indirect) to rotate the row on the right.
Variants
- The maker of the lock must dribble and take a side pot and then stop and pull
- The maker of the lock must dribble and then penetrate to the basket
- You can convert the exercise in hybrid:
- making the player 2 is self-rebotee and the pass to player 3 to play 1×0 toward the other basket. At the turn player 3 will pass the ball to the player without the ball in the middle row and go to the row that we had to rotate.
- doing that play 2×1 toward the other basket, being the player who took the lock indirect to pull on who will be the defender.
- The coach can be placed with the pin to ‘force you’ to perform a side pot to improve the angle of the pass.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
