Floppy

Floppy is a one-decision play, which is exactly what you want when you have one shooter and four players who are still learning. Everybody else has a job with no reading in it. 2 is the only one who chooses.

He stands under the rim with a single screen on one side and a double on the other. Whichever way his defender plays it wrong, he goes the other way.

The read

Two rules, and they are enough.

If his man is trailing behind him, go to the double. Two screens in a row is more than a trailing defender can survive, and the catch happens at the wing with separation.

If his man is sitting on top of the screens, refusing to let him use them, go to the single side. A defender committed to one side cannot cover the other.

Whichever side he is standing on, run away from him.

Teaching it

The screeners have one instruction: set your feet and stay set. The temptation is to move with the cutter, and a moving screen is an offensive foul at every level.

For the shooter, drill the catch before the cut. He is catching while moving away from the rim, which means the feet have to land under him, not behind him. Twenty reps of catch-and-shoot moving to the wing will do more for this play than twenty reps of the cut.

If you have a second shooter, run the same action with him under the rim. Nothing else changes.