Adrian Kovacs: Basketball Defense vs. Spread Ballscreen Offense

I will talk about the spread board screen defense but first before we get into it I think it's important to to talk about the evolution of the spacing and then we will understand better why I'm really excited about talking the the spread board screen defense I think we we can be all agreed that there is an

increased ability of the offense to create advantages and also that the B screen is the most used Advantage creation mechanism and will be interesting to to consider the spread B screen because the spacing has become more Dynamic than ever what does it does this mean it means that the B screen is not a two two

player action anymore I I think that if when we watch a basketball game we can see that all five players are basically involved in the pick and RW action offense looks to prevent or to punish the ball screen coverage so as the protection find a way to punish the defensive choices and defense looks to

find a way to neutralize the advantages and to take away individual strength and individual and Collective Strength this is the reason I put here that it's basically a cat and mouse game between the offense and the defense each trying to find a way to to win uh and the reason I I will talk

about the the the spread ball uh ball screen because you guys can see here in my screen that there is a huge space for the offense to to create an advantage and and uh the defense need needs to uh make the right decision how they want to guard this action okay there are many

different B screen spacing as top elbow spread wing single tag Rolland slide Spain flat step up there are a bunch of those but I think this is a a very interesting one so the spread waro screen we call here spread board screen when the pick and roll is going to the twom men side