Put the Defense on their Heels - Transition Ball Screen Concepts & Quick Hitting Actions

with Donte’ Jackson,
Alabama A&M Head Coach;
Grambling State University Head Coach from 2017 to 2025;
2024 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Tournament Champions;
Earned Grambling State’s first-ever trip the NCAA Tournament;
3x SWAC Regular Season Champions;
3x SWAC Coach of the Year;
2x Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year Award recipient

Coach Donte’ Jackson shares how to immediately go into ball screen actions from their transition game to put the defense on their heels. With multiple actions and quick decision making, this system is a fantastic way to get your guys in the paint early in a possession and get great looks at the basket.

Coach Jackson’s teaching style is everything you would want it to be in an instructional video - he gets the team on the court and moves right into the actions!

In this video you will learn several sets - plus multiple options from those sets - and see how Coach Jackson uses the ball screen. The continuity from option to option is simple yet its cohesion with the previous set is seamless. This system allows your players to have some immediate structure, yet also lets them learn to be the high IQ players they need to be to keep the defense off balance.

Jackson teaches the players on the court with simple direction and you will see them learn and grasp the concepts and execute the offense. The “quick hitters” early in the possession open up easy opportunities for the offense to get in the paint and break down the defense.

The ball screen is one of the most universal basketball techniques to hurt defenses. While there are often many different ways to defend the ball screen, Jackson and his offense addresses these and show you how easy it is to beat a defense when you get right into your ball screen offense.

Whether they choose to blitz the screen, drop off it, switch it or go under, the instruction provided here will help you see how to attack each one of these.

Coach Jackson provides 11 different quick hitters in this video plus each one has variations that can be attached to that action. These can be added to your playbook today!

The Ball Screen is one of the deadliest weapons in the game of basketball. Using it early in your offense, just out of your transition, is a brilliant way to put the defense back on its heels and force it to make tough decisions early in the possession.

Coach Jackson’s ‘get after it’ teaching style is perfect for coaches who want to see the movement and the flow as well as the patterns taught. If you want to take advantage of your transition game and early offense, this is a must-watch video!

Customer Comments: 5 Out of 5 Stars!
“I loved this video. I have been coaching for over 20 years and I love videos where I get to see the set of the offense in a 5 – 0 setting. Less talking, more on the court doing. Coach Jackson does a great job of showing us the many different actions within his secondary break. Loved watching it and can’t wait to implement some of this stuff!”

75 minutes. 2025.