Continuity Concepts, Creative Counters & Set Plays to Build a Better Ball Screen Motion Offense

In this instructional video, LSU’s Matt McMahon takes you through a continuity ball-screen offense and provides highly valuable concepts and continuity, set plays and even counters to attack defensive adjustments.

You will get everything you need to successfully run and teach ball-screen motion offense, and immediately put it to use within your own program – regardless the level of basketball that you coach.

Ball-Screen Motion Offense

Coach McMahon discusses his coaching philosophy as it pertains to offense in this introductory segment. He outlines the process he went through when evaluating his team’s offensive performance, which led to his decision to run the ball screen motion. 

Sharing 10 components that coaches can use to determine what system or offense to implement with their own program – Coach McMahon offers unique insight including his thoughts on the importance of spacing, ball reversals and designing actions that offer offensive rebounding opportunities.

Coach McMahon goes over the reasons why he switched to a ball-screen motion offense and shares why it has been so effective for his players and teams. He explains the importance of things to think about on offense – such as making sure that the ball moves quickly and touches multiple hands, everyone has a role to play, it allows you to run your favorite set plays and it also allows for player freedom.

Coach McMahon then covers an in-depth offensive segment – going over the basic continuity of ball-screen motion, the proper spacing and the ideal type of personnel it takes to make this offense flow and be effective. 

Set Plays, Counters & Breaks 

After showing the insider’s look at his ball-screen motion offense, Coach McMahon goes over several set plays and makes the point that many of your favorite set plays can be run out of a ball-screen offense or even how they may serve as effective entries. 

McMahon covers several plays out of a 1-4 high set, along with several game-tested, 1-4 high counters that you can put in as defenses start to make adjustments. 

Coach McMahon also shows how to incorporate the famous Carolina Break within the offense. As someone who has coached it and played in it, he believes in playing fast and has found ways to add actions from the break into the motion continuity of the ball screen offense.

As a coach, you must be prepared for as many scenarios as possible. McMahon shows off multiple counters to attack the many different looks defenses might throw at you when running a ball-screen motion offense – covering effective methods for attacking switching, trapping, ice coverage and more, are all discussed and demonstrated with the on-court players.

To end his presentation, Coach McMahon answers multiple questions from coaches. Topics he covers include: attacking hard hedges, transition and intangibles that make a program elite.

If you are ready to incorporate a ball-screen motion offense into your program, this is a must-watch video for you! Coach McMahon gives you proven, game-tested set plays, counters and basic movements of the offense – one that you can implement quickly and put in place to give you an edge during the season!

70 minutes. 2023.