Flex Offense Playbook: Baseline Series
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Coaching Plus resource · PDF · 5 pages
A frame-by-frame playbook for the baseline series of the flex offense. It starts with the initial set-up and continuous movement, then shows the counters to use when the defense switches or overplays.
What’s inside
- Initial set-up and continuous movement: where each player starts and how the pattern repeats.
- Baseline switch: what the screener and cutter do when defenders switch the screen.
- Elbow back door: the back cut when the defender overplays the cut to the elbow.
- Diagrams with numbered frames and a short note for each step.
Who it’s for
Coaches installing the flex for the first time, or adding counters for opponents who have scouted the basic pattern.
How to install it
Teach the flex in shell form first: five players, no defense, walking through the baseline screen and the down screen until every player can run all five spots. The flex is a continuity offense, so players have to learn the whole pattern, not just one spot. Once the movement is automatic, add live defense and let the defenders switch or overplay so players practice the counters.
The two counters in this series answer the most common ways teams guard the flex. When defenders switch the baseline screen, the screener has an open seal or a mismatch. When a defender jumps the cut to the elbow, the back door is open. Teaching counters early keeps the offense from becoming predictable against teams that have scouted you.
Related: Flex Offense Playbook: Corner Series · 2-1-2 Modified Flex Offense · How to Run the Spread Continuity Offense
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