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Flex specials


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1) Flex cut and clear

a) Hold

Post isolation. 1 passes to 4, 2 flex cuts using 5 and keeps going, 5 ducks in.

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4 looks inside for 5 or passes to 1 who can pass directly to 5 or dribble down if X5 comes over the top.

Option (shown) - 3 and 4 stagger screen for 2 on a pass to 1.

See Fast breaks - Larry Brown, Old Dominion, Offence - Maryland flex, Flex variations, and Oregon University.

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b) Fist

1 slides away, 5 ducks in then continues to ballscreen for 4.

Fist is an option in Flex Hold if 4 has no pass.

See Maryland flex.

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c) European play #7

The ball is reversed from 1 to 3, 2 flex cuts and keeps going, 5 picks and rolls.

See Offence - European (play 7).

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d) Phoenix Suns 1 Twist
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2 flex cuts on ball reversal to 3 then clears, 4 screens away for 1.


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4 twists to set a ballscreen for 1.

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2) Rip

2 backscreens for 4

See Offences - Hubie Brown triangle, Nets, Flex variations.

1 passes to 4 who passes to 3, 2 flex cuts then backscreens for 4, 5 comes high as 4 cuts to the basket.

(Rip-get option - 4 sprints into a pick and roll with 3, 2 clears to the weakside corner)

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5 picks and rolls on a pass to 2.

Variations - 4 and 5 stay low,

- 2 goes one-on-one from the top (Hubie Brown)
- 4 cross-screens for 5 on a pass to 2 (see North Carolina fast break).

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Kickback option

If 4 passes back to 1 (e.g., 3 is denied), look for a lob pass off the backscreen.

5 will again ballscreen on a pass to 2 out top.

See Larry Brown, North Carolina.

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3) Argentina ballscreen

2 flex cuts on the pass to 4, who swings it to 3 and follows to pick and pop, 2 backscreens for 4 then pops out to the wing.

See Argentina flex offence.

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Regular flex cut

4) New Jersey Nets series (see Nets offence)

1 passes to 4, 2 flex cuts using 5, then 4 passes to 3.




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a) Power

3 passes back to 4, 5 cross-screens for 2, who goes under, 5 ducks into the middle.

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b) Cross

2 cross-screens for 5, 4 downscreens for 2.

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Cross-fist - 4 comes back out to pick and roll on a pass to 2 out top, 1 and 3 go down to the corners, 5 replaces if 4 rolls.

See Fast breaks - Memphis, Serbia U18.

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c) Cross-get

5 ballscreens for 3, 4 goes to the weakside low post, 2 comes out to the weakside slot, 1 spaces away.

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5) Pitt series

Based on the Pitt quick hitter.

1 passes to 4, 2 flex cuts using 5.

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a) Back

4 passes to 3, 2 backscreens for 5, 1 and 4 stagger screen for 2.

Old Dominion - 5 re-screens for 2 then posts ballside.

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b) Panther

5 and 1 stagger screen for 2 (4 doesn't pass to 3).

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