Comments on: How to Run a Basketball Offense: Screen

on 2/6/2006 If you are playing co-ed basketball, and the person on your team needs a screen and you are a girl and a boy is guarding the point guard (or the person who has the ball), if you come up and set a screen; be careful. Boys usually have more hitting impact so girls, make sure you brace extra tight.

on 11/22/2005 In most pickup games, players are only concerned with on-the-ball screens--that is, setting a screen on the ball handler's defender. Equally effective are away-from-the-ball screens. You can screen a teammate's defender who is on the post (screen down), screen high, or you can screen a teammate's defender moving away from the ball (screen away). These often open up the cutting lanes and lead to easy baskets.

on 11/22/2005 The author mentions not raising your arms to the side, but it's also important to not use them to impede the defenders motion by putting them out in front of you. Your body should absorb the entire impact and your arms should only be used to protect yourself.

on 11/22/2005 When screening, stay stationary. If you are moving before your team mate comes towards you, you will get a moving foul.