Lost among the Trees

Sporting News, The, Jan 10, 2000 by Ron Kroichick

No. 3--vs. a staggered baseline screens

The opponent's small forward (the 3) sets a screen for his shooting guard (the 2); on the other side of the lane, the power forward (the 4) sets another screen. The shooting guard cuts along the baseline and under the basket, hoping to run his man into one (or both) of the screens. Stanford's 2 man, usually David Moseley, fights the first screen and then "tags" his man across the baseline. He does not move over the top of either screen, as many defenders are taught. Stanford's low-post defenders help Moseley by "showing" on the curl, or putting a hand in the face of the shooting guard coming off these screens. --R.K.

Ron Kroichick is a sportswriter for the San Francisco Chronicle.