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Responsibilities of small forward in auto bounce place are to make sure that one, you are setting good screens if that is your responsibility. The other is to make sure that you are using screens efficiently to create scoring opportunities.
Who typically is going to be screening for the shooting guard and the point guard to get open? More often than none, it is going to be the small forward. You have to take pride in the peak. You have to set good screens. Again, we are going back to passing fundamentals and we are talking about not juts chest passes, bounce passes but if you are a small forward, you have to have good ball rotation skills. You catch the ball, you have to have good ball fakes with the ball on a pass, be able to swing it, be able to throw lot passes which is an advance pass, and you have to have good ball rotation, good passing skills. Does that make sense?
In a zone, typically, you are going to be there on a high post on the perimeter. You have to have good passing skills with ball fakes, shot fakes, these are just simple little things that open up one or two seconds of extra time for your team to get an open shot. One or two seconds of open time for your team to get an open shot just because you have a good ball fake or you have the ability to throw a pass fake before you throw the ball.
What drives me crazier than anything is players catch the ball, is this not true Jason? Players catch the ball and they just look, stare it at where they are to throw it and they throw it against the zone defense. And that drives me nuts. I mean not to pull me off the rafters in my gym when they do that in practice. It drives me crazy. You have to have that ability.
You have to build a read when entry pass is in trouble. What does this mean? Shooting guards taking the ball out of bounce cannot find one of the big guys and point guards are not available, what should you do at that point? Play is kind of broken down. No, you are not taking it out. Break to the ball, get to the ball. Exactly, find an open spot and get to the ball. You have to be able to communicate on defense when the other team is taking it out of bounce. Because when that is happening, typically, the three is going to be somewhere around here, maybe the ball has been taken out here so you have to see this, you have to see your man and you have to see what is going on around you.
Typically, an out of bounce plays more often than not or at least half the time, you are going to be the guy that can see the whole court for an out of balance play. Either that or side line of what is going on. Does that make sense? Now maybe the shooting guard is sometimes here, but more often not, it is going to be you. And you have to have the ability to communicate on defense. Watch your screen. Cover the play. Deny the ball to the wing. You have to take that responsibility.
And as well as ball rotation on out of balance play, you have to have the ability to catch and shoot and shoot off the dribble. Normally on an out of balance play, when the ball rotates around and it swings to you, defensive players out of position, what are they going to do? They are going to run right at you. If you have enough room, you have to catch and shoot on the pass when receive it and if you know the guy is closing down too quickly, you have to shot fake, be able to go off the dribble and create some chaos. Either with an open jump shot or with the seven footer coming after you, dump it down to your big guy for elaborate dunk. You have to have the ability to do this off the dribble.
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