One of the most important things when coming off a ball screen is reading the ball screen defender. Another important teaching point is coming off the screen aggressively looking to score. The ball screen defender will tell you how to use the ball screen but the ball handler's job is to either get to the rim if the lane is open or pull the three if the lane is clogged. The entire time the ball screen is coming the ball handler is reading, waiting and then exploding as efficiently as possible to the rim. If you are setting the ball screen, we teach to arrive without your defense. We call it a naked ball screen. Once the screen is set, we have a couple ways of reading the ball screen defender. If the ball screen defender is:
1. Calling out an early switch- we slip the ball screen.
2. Jump switching- we attack the ball screeners outside hip and turn the corner.
3. Hard hedging- we split the ball screen.
4. Soft hedging- we attack the ball screeners outside hip and turn the corner.
5. Stunting- we keep the ball screeners attention and bait them into staying with the ball handler.
5. Trailing the ball screen- we attack the ball screen and bait them into committing as high as possible to the ball handler and then break them down.
