The FLEX offense is a cyclical, spacing-driven system ideal for teaching principles of screening, cutting, and ball reversal. The methodology starts from 1-on-0 and progresses through 1-on-1, 2-on-2, and up to full-team 5-on-5, allowing players to understand each role and interaction before assembling the complete offense. The system of Flex is suitable for its simplicity since it is a cyclical system. His form of the game that makes you internalize movements as they are simple.
In addition, its structure makes it easier to read the benefits in each of the steps and help the players to break the system effectively.
Recommended to play on cadet or junior.
On the other hand, it is also very FLEXible, since it allows to incorporate variants of very natural, logical and instinctive. Many professional teams split Flex and then incorporate some of the nuances in function of their players.
In the following article, we will explain the basic steps of Flex (in black lines) and we will detail the possible breakage of the system taking advantage of the benefits created (lines in red and blue).+Add section
Initial layout of the FLEX Offensive System
Dealing with the two posts below, and a corner. The other two outside are placed in the extension of the side lines of the area and out of the triple. Of these two, the outer balloon occupies the prolongation of the side of the area where the corner is busy.
Another way of making the transition, is that in the case of getting the ball on the other side is translaten the 3 bottom line by adapting the structure to the side where the ball is.The simplest is to organize function of why street reaches the ball.
1st Movement: ‘Mini-investment’. Possibilities of back door after feint reception, 1×1, opening to the corner and Lock Indirect Post Under the Weak Side
Feint of receipt of 2, with the option of playing back door (red line) if your defender will sobredefiende your pass line. This clear is crucial because if there is a loss we were sold on the balance sheet.
It is critical to have worked this pass (you can work with a 2×2 simple based on the same initial layout -black line).On the other hand, 3 is opened and win corner released. If your defender will sobredefiende, you can try to play the back door (purple line).
There you can receive the pass from 2 and if it is released (blue line), pull with warranties Rebound (4 and 5) and Balance Defensive (1 and 2).If 2 receives and is incisive in a 1×1, you can test your advocate addressing and progressing towards the ring (green line). 5 put Lock Indirect (BI) to 4.
2nd Movement: Possibilities of 1×1 from the corner and the chances of passes, after reading an advantage created by the Lock Indirect Post Under the Weak Side
If in the opening of 3 to corner you receive, you have the following options:
- If you have shot released, pull up to the basket with 4 and 5 on the bounce and with 1 and 2 to Balance Defensive.
- you can overflow into the 1×1 line (dark green), then 4 does not take the IB and gives space for the 1×1 3. 2 tilts towards the extension of free-kick from Strong Side to offer a line of pass and occupy the space better.
After taking the BI, 4 can receive the pass from 2 (black line) or 3 (if you previously 2 happened to 3 -red line) and end up under the hoop.In case you don’t receive, occupies Pole Under the Strong Side, with the possibility of posting if you receive pass 3 (blue lines). In the case of put the ball to the Low Post from 3, 2 pivots for offer pass line-to-4.Attentive then the BI out of 5 because you also have the option to receive a pass 2 in the continuation of the BI (black line).
3rd Movement: Lock Indirect vertical Weak Side. Possibilities to pass to the continuation of the blocker, back door at the output of the taker of the crash or always welcome
5 (blocked prior to 4) receives the BI-1. Very important that you do not forward 5 to the reception of the BI because of the occurrence of the BI in the mid Pole would have less space to work the front desk in the space previously occupied by 1. As in all the BI, we must be attentive to the possibility of a pass to the continuation of 1 (blue line).
If the defender of 5 about defend the pass line, 5 can play back door (red line).
In case you do not get any advantage, 5 received in the space previously occupied 1 (black line).Fundamental to have worked out for BI with changes of pace, so as not to lose the ball.After receiving 5 in the position previously occupied 1 (black line), you can restart another cycle of Flex playing on the other side is symmetrical.
Cedric Arregui GuivarchNational Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
