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Whenever we ran ‘Yankee’ into ‘2-Game’, teams would try to find ways to take something away or take us out of a particular series in order to slow us down. As is true with any offense, a good defensive team can force you to be creative and come up with different ways to score out of your base offense.

Over the years we saw teams try different things to make us uncomfortable, but usually a simple tweak or a special to counter their scheme was all we needed because the 2-Game was so simple for our players to run.

Today, we bring you four of the main specials and counter we ran to get shots or counter defensive schemes.

‘Box Up’ Post Series Entry
On occasion, teams would overplay our posts to try and keep us out of our Post Series, and we would run the following entry to get the series started:
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  • If your posts are being pressured to keep you out of the Post Series, align in a box set, and have the 2 and 3 break out to the hash marks, then flash 4 and 5 up the lane.
  • Once entered to the post, 2 makes the back door cut for a layup or you go straight into the 2-Game Post Series.
2-Game Counter
When teams tried switching, we could run this counter and force them to stop defending cuts with a switch:
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  • 1 passes to 2 then gets a back screen from 4 for a basket cut.
  • 3 Jab steps and comes back. 2 passes to 4, then joins 5 in setting a double screen for 1. 4 passes to 1 coming off the double.
Simple Iso
This was a simple isolation set we ran if we felt we had a mismatch or wanted to give one of our best players room to create late in a game:
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  • 1 enters on the dribble. 5 sets a back screen for 2, who must cut over the top to opposite corner.
  • 1 passes to 5 and the isolation is set up.
Quick 3
We ran this play to get a quick 3 for a shooter when we needed it:
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  • Put your shooter in the 4 spot, and start by having them set a backscreen for 1 after the pass to 2.
  • Now 5 sets a screen the screener for 4 coming off for a quick 3.

Those are just four of the Specials we ran in our 2-Game. You can see that it is very easy to create new set plays out of the alignment, and still give players the freedom to create on their own.