The 45° to 45° Off-Ball Screen Drill focuses on executing and reading off-ball screens between the two wings. Players simulate game-like situations where a cutter uses an indirect screen to separate from their defender, moving from one 45° spot to the opposite side. The drill sharpens timing, angle execution, and shooting after separation, helping players understand how to move efficiently without the ball.
Objectives
- Practice the foundation of the Lock Indirect.
- Warm-up with a wheel of foundations collective.
Contents
- Lock indirect
- Boat
- Pass
- Shot
- Step Zero
- Tickets to the basket
- Bounce
- Outputs
- Stops
- Changes of hand
- Change of pace
- Feints
- 2×0 and 2×2
Recommended age
- From 12 years onwards (big basket).
Number of players
- From 5 players in forward.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 6-8 minutes.
- You can go introducing variants on the equator temporary exercise.
Equipment and facilities
- A minimum of 2 balls. Recommended to have a proportion of 1 ball per 2 players.
- A half Basketball court.
Initial layout and description
Make two rows. the first without a ball in left side. The second balloon on the right hand side.
A player in header left ready to put the first Lock Indirect.
The first player from the row without the ball comes out to take the Lock Indirect.
In how much leaves the player without the ball, the player with the ball must leave to give the pass from 45º.
When the player who took the lock indirect what riza, receives the pass and completes the ring with an entry.
Meanwhile, the player who put the Lock Downstream is going to the corner of the players without the ball.
The player who gave the pass is aimed to replace the position where he was the blocker. The player who made the entry picks up his own rebound and goes to the row with the ball.
Variants
- The coach can be placed in order to accustom the makers of the Lock Indirect to observe to see if they are persecuted (then will curl the BI to receive the pass on court), or whether the defender will cut out (then float up to receive and throw in).
- You can replace the rotation of go to put the lock indirect with a chair or a car, and to incorporate the option that if the person who goes to the basket fault will be playing in 1×1 against the person who gave the pass.
- If you have more players, you can also set the option that the one who fails the entrance is left to defend the policy-holder of the Lock Indirect follows (left to defend until you have a person who fails his entrance).
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
