Encyclopedia of Set Plays: Explosive Plays vs Man & Zone, Quick Hitters, SLOBS, BLOBS & More!

with Matt Bollant,
Bryan College Head Coach;
Eastern Illinois University Head Women's Coach from 2017 to 2024;
University of Illinois Head Women's Coach from 2012 to 2017;
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Head Women's Coach from 2007 to 2012;
2011 Kay Yow National Coach of the Year;
4x Horizon League Coach of the Year;
2011 Sweet Sixteen;
back-to-back 30+ win seasons (2010-2012);
Bryan College Head Coach from 2002 to 2007;
2007 AAC Coach of the Year

Unlock the secrets to the best set plays! Loaded with dozens of different set plays you can use with multiple looks or use maybe once a game to keep your opponents’ off-balance, Eastern Illinois’ Matt Bollant opens his personal ‘set play vault’ to share an efficient offense that uses set plays to force opponents to guard your players evenly and try to be prepared for any action.

From stealing sets from opponents to creating simple and effective sets for his slashers, post players, or shooting guards, Coach Bollant has built an instructional coaching video filled with set plays that you can immediately add into your playbook.

In this fully loaded video, Coach Bollant guides you through the deep recesses of his playbook to give you something you can add to yours!

Half Court Sets

Coach Bollant sets you up from the start with simple, effective set plays to add to your offense! From adding a high-low action to a post isolation to creating a flare-screen for an open shooter this video playbook has it all.

Bollant opens his playbook and just provides a glimpse at just tip of the iceberg with over 15 different sets. Leaving these sets unnamed, Bollant explains that it allows you to provide  whatever name you want for your program/your players to remember and helps to make them interchangeable.

Each play Bollant showcases offers an opportunity for your players to read their defenders and figure out which option is open – allowing players to improve their basketball IQ while accessing any number of multiple scoring options.

What makes these plays effective is that you can run them to isolate any of your scorers and create an opportunity to get another player in foul trouble. From backdoor sets to flex-screen actions, to point-guard action around the perimeter, Coach Bollant shows how you can use these sets to get an easy bucket and keep your opponent guessing at what set you are going to run next!

BLOBS (Baseline Out of Bounds)

With three different sets from the baseline out of bounds, Coach Bollant shows game-tested plays that can create high-percentage scoring opportunities and provide more free-throw opportunities by getting to the rim.

Each set offers a post-up isolation that gives your best post player a great opportunity to score in the paint. Adding to the dynamic nature of these plays, Bollant shows how to counter an opponent who has successfully taken away your post players, by using them in another set to open up a wing player for an isolation drive or kick-out elevator shot! 

With multiple scoring options these BLOB sets can easily be added to your team’s playbook!

SLOBS (Sideline Out of Bounds)

Looking to steal a few points off sideline inbound sets? Bollant shines the light on some great SLOB sets that you can use to create a layup off of a backdoor option. Coach Bollant then shows how a wrinkle off ‘America’s Play,’ can be easily modified to use a flare screen that opens up a shooter or gets a quick dump pass into the post player on a post seal. In addition, Bollant shows a creative play call for a special situation late in the game, where you can have your players run toward the ball to create misdirection-action and use a lob pass over the top at the rim.  

Set plays can help you steal a quick point and be the difference in picking up the win or losing a late game situation.

With over 22 different sets, each with multiple options, you can use these game-proven plays when you need a bucket to stop an opponent’s momentum or just to set the tone early in the game with a quick strike.

Adding to your playbook helps to improve your players confidence and keeps your opponents’ guessing at what you will run next. This is a must-watch video for basketball coaches at all levels of competition who are looking to add dynamic scoring options to their playbook.

Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 Stars. ‘This video is LOADED with great sets that are simple and easy to install!’

34 minutes. 2023.