How to Set Up a Play in Youth Basketball

Video Transcript

"Hi, This is Sean Hobson. What we're talking about right now is the importance of our point guard running the offense. Your point guard on the floor is going to be your general, your leader on the floor. It's his job, before anything can happen, to let everybody on the floor know, all the other players know, what play we're running. Not only what play we're running, but also which side of the floor they need to be on. Anything that has to do with setting up the play, it's going to be the point guard's responsibility. The point guard is going to get that responsibility, or get the job from the coach himself. The first thing we want our point guards to always do, as they're bring the ball up, and they've got to watch because they've got to be able to do this under pressure. When you're picking a good point guard, you've got to find somebody that is not only smart, but somebody that can multi-task and can get the coach's command while also working against the defender. Our point guard is going to come up, the first thing we want him to do is to look at the coach to get the play. Five: So he's going to then call out the play to the offense. Once he calls out the play and he crosses over mid court, what he wants to do next is make sure that every player on the floor is ready to get started in the offense before he goes. If our point guard just comes down and starts running the offense and somebody's in the wrong spot we're not going to be able to pull off the play like we want to do. This guy is very important to getting this play started and getting everybody on the floor ready to get into our first play."