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A simple but brutally effective ATO vs. any zone that creates a wide-open catch-and-shoot three through a double back-screen on the zone’s top and bottom defenders after two rapid skip passes.

OFFENSE

Zone Offense

FORMATION

1-4 High

CORE ACTIONS

High-Low

PLAY DESCRIPTION

Quick Overview

The play forces the zone to fully shift twice in under two seconds and then screens both outside defenders from behind, freeing your shooter for an uncontested catch-and-shoot three.

Why It Works

The skip–skip action shifts the entire zone twice, pulling top and bottom defenders far out of position. When 3 ball-fakes and the zone bites, and 1 shifts into the shooting window, the simultaneous blindside X-screens from 4 and 2 eliminate any closing defender. The zone cannot rotate quickly enough to contest.

Key Teaching Points

Timing is critical; the skips, dives, and screens must overlap.
3’s ball fake must freeze the low help.
1 must shift early into the shooting window.
4 and 2 must arrive on their X-screens behind the defenders’ line of sight.
Shooter catches stepping into space.
3 rotates high for transition defense; 5 crashes the glass from an ideal offensive rebounding position

PRIMARY ACTIONS

  • Start in a high 1-4: 1 top, 4 right elbow, 5 left elbow, 2 right wing, 3 left wing.

  • 1 passes to 2 on the right wing; 4 dives to the right short corner.

  • 2 immediately skips to 3 on the opposite wing.

  • On the skip’s flight, 5 dives to the left short corner.

  • 3 catches, ball fakes to 5, then skips it back to 1.

  • 1 shifts into the right-wing shooting window.

  • Simultaneously: 4 back-screens the top outside defender; 2 back-screens the bottom outside defender.

  • 1 catches for an uncontested 3 or drives the gap.

MEDIA

Skip Skip A Skip Skip B Skip Skip C Skip Skip D
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