Plain-language coaching guides on sets, screens and coverages, with diagrams you can open and run in SlongeHoops.https://slongehoops.com/enhttps://slongehoops.com/guides/ato-plays-late-game-package/https://slongehoops.com/guides/ato-plays-late-game-package/An ATO is the one possession a season where you get to choose everything. This is how to build a package of five calls instead of a binder of twenty.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTato playsafter timeout playslate game basketball playsneed a three playlast second playbasketball timeout playshttps://slongehoops.com/guides/basketball-breakdown-videos-and-reels/https://slongehoops.com/guides/basketball-breakdown-videos-and-reels/The formats that work, the pacing that keeps people watching, and an honest account of where the animated diagram fits into the edit.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbasketball play animation for instagrambasketball breakdown videobasketball reelsplay animation exportvertical basketball diagram videofilm breakdownhttps://slongehoops.com/guides/blob-and-slob-basics/https://slongehoops.com/guides/blob-and-slob-basics/Baseline and sideline out-of-bounds plays are the easiest free points in the game and the easiest turnovers. Here is what to run and what the rules let you do.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTblob plays basketballslob plays basketballbaseline out of bounds playssideline out of bounds playsinbounds playsbox blobstack blobhttps://slongehoops.com/guides/horns-offense/https://slongehoops.com/guides/horns-offense/Horns is not a play, it is a starting position that makes a defense choose. Here are the entries, the option families with a diagram each, and how to install it as one call instead of five.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThorns offensehorns set basketballwhat is horns in basketballhorns setshorns spainhorns flarehttps://slongehoops.com/guides/how-to-beat-a-2-3-zone/https://slongehoops.com/guides/how-to-beat-a-2-3-zone/A 2-3 zone concedes the same four places every time. This is how to get the ball there, which habits matter more than the set you call, and when to stop running zone offense altogether.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThow to beat a 2-3 zone2-3 zone offenseattacking a 2-3 zonezone offense basketballoverload zone offensehigh low vs 2-3 zonehttps://slongehoops.com/guides/how-to-draw-up-a-basketball-play/https://slongehoops.com/guides/how-to-draw-up-a-basketball-play/A practical guide to diagramming a play so a player can read it in four seconds — the standard symbols, phases instead of frames, and the spot names that keep a staff honest.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThow to draw up a basketball playbasketball play diagram symbolshow to diagram a basketball playbasketball play designerbasketball play diagramhttps://slongehoops.com/guides/motion-offense-vs-set-plays/https://slongehoops.com/guides/motion-offense-vs-set-plays/The honest trade-off between an offense built on rules and one built on calls, and the five roster questions that decide which way you lean.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTmotion offense vs set playsshould I run motion or setsbasketball continuity offense5 out motion offensechoosing an offenseflex offensehttps://slongehoops.com/guides/pick-and-roll-coverages-explained/https://slongehoops.com/guides/pick-and-roll-coverages-explained/The eight ways a team guards a ball screen, in plain language, each with the thing it gives up and the specific counter that attacks it. Plus off-ball screens and handoffs.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTpick and roll coverageshow to defend the pick and rollball screen coveragesdrop coverage basketballice coverage basketballhow to beat drop coveragehttps://slongehoops.com/guides/scouting-an-opponents-coverage/https://slongehoops.com/guides/scouting-an-opponents-coverage/A short, repeatable way to work out how an opponent guards ball screens and off-ball screens, and how to turn each answer into one thing you run.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTscouting report basketballhow to scout an opponentball screen coverage scoutingbasketball countersdefensive scouting templatepick and roll countershttps://slongehoops.com/guides/spain-pick-and-roll/https://slongehoops.com/guides/spain-pick-and-roll/A ball screen with a back screen on the roller's defender. It asks one big man to do two jobs at once, and this is how you run it and how you guard it.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTspain pick and rollspain ball screenstack pick and rollhow to defend spain pick and rollback screen the rollerhorns spainhttps://slongehoops.com/guides/teaching-a-playbook-players-remember/https://slongehoops.com/guides/teaching-a-playbook-players-remember/Most playbooks fail at the install, not at the whiteboard. A practical way to teach sets so players still know them in February.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThow to teach players the playbookbasketball playbook installteaching an offensebasketball playbook quizinstall schedule basketballgetting players to remember playshttps://slongehoops.com/guides/youth-basketball-plays-u12-u14/https://slongehoops.com/guides/youth-basketball-plays-u12-u14/At this age the play is almost never the problem. Here is the short list of what to teach, in what order, and what to leave for later.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbasketball plays for kidsbasketball plays for u12youth basketball offensesimple basketball plays5 out motion offense youthyouth press break