Read & React Game Clips - Iowa K

Clip 1: The first way to use your post: As a Back-to-the-Basket Scorer. #50 Gabby Machado begins as a high post passer and screener. Then she uses the actions of the Read & React to post up at the low post when least expected and when help defense is following cutters out of the lane.

Clip 2: The second way to use your post is as a Drive & Pitch Target. #50 Gabby reacts correctly to Baseline Dribble Penetration (90 degree window), but instead of catching and shooting, she catches and re-drives.

Clip 3: The third way to use your post: As a Short Corner Hunter behind the zone. Remember, any pass to the short corner is to be treated as a Baseline Drive. Her windows must be filled as if she were a perimeter player driving baseline; Natural Pitch, 90 degree, 45 degree, and Safety Valve. In this case, #24 Printy fills her Natural Pitch.

Clip 4: The fourth way to use your post is as a Passer & Screener in the High Post. If youre wondering, this clip is nothing more than the first action from The Post Passing Layer; feed the post and Laker Cut to the basket. The cutter vacates a spot that must be filled by #24 Printy. However, instead of simply filling the spot, Printy sets up the cut in order to use the post as a screen.

Clip 5: The fifth way to use your post just like its shown and drilled on DVD in The Post Passing Layer: As a Mid-Post Passer. #12 Morgan is in the traditional mid-post with her defender playing directly behind her; #2 Kamille feeds her and chooses Laker-Cut-High and then makes the Natural Pitch as if she had driven into the lane. Nice linkage of two basic Layers.

Clip 6: The sixth way to use your post: As a Ball Screener. Note the simplicity of #50 Machados action. She works the high post on both sides and looks for chances to set a screen and roll. If she doesnt get the ball, she flashes back to the high post elbow and tries again. The perimeter players are just Passing & Cutting, etc working their perimeter action as if they were 5out. But the high post screening action changes the Offense and how it must be guarded. One little adjustment with the post and you have (what looks like) a different offense. It is still the same habits, but different actions create different opportunities.

Clips 7, 8: More examples of the Post as a Drive & Pitch Target.

Clip 9: Just good Read & React action.

Clip 10: The seventh way to use your post: As a Brush-Screener. In this clip, #12 Morgan changes angles for her teammates like a pro at the high post. But even if your post is not aware of what he or she is doing, you can teach your cutters to use the post to brush-off their defenders when cutting and it doesnt matter where the post is located: high, low, short corner, ball-side or weak-side.

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