What is a Pick & Roll?

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The big player sets a screen and the ball handler uses the space created to move the ball. Simple, yet effective, that’s what the Pick and Roll is.
But why is it so effective? Why has no one developed a way to defend it? How has it developed?
Ryan Baldi explains, Philippe Fenner illustrates.
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Discussing Pep’s positional play vs Triangle Offense
Overload-to-isolation concepts being borrowed from
Basketball to football
Zone defense going from football to basketball

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[@jerome8340]

I think you guys still have some work to do on the basketball channel. For football, you have great minds that know football in and out and I don't think it has translated yet. From calling the pick n roll a "move" at the start of the video to the descriptions of PNR defenses at the end which focused on the on-ball defender only, which is inherently flawed. Also, ICE coverage was missed which is still very common in the NBA on side on-balls. Despite this, we need more of you in the basketball world, keep going!

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[@iri101]

This comment was spot on. Especially since there was a lot of talk on drop coverage in the last nba finals. If someone watched this video would not know what you mean. Other things missing are high hedge, a trap were they double the ball handler. There is scram switches where the big is switched before the pic and roll.
I also wish that you emphazied that with the removal of illegal defense it was harder to play one v one offenses and scoring plumented in the early 2000s until pace and space (the suns) started their shenanigans.

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I’m a new fan to the sport and this was very helpful. Thank you

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AYO what did you do to steph in the thumbnail lol, blackified him.

[@vinniechan]

Pickn roll is the basic building blocks of basketball plays

[@michelerich1590]

But why call it pick instead of screen? Better yet, why call it screen instead of block? Sorry but I just don't see the point in the cutesy terms. Anyone? I'm sincerely curious.

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Just the NFL? Or would that also include college?

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Love this explantion and covering the more in depth varieties

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Pick & roll was abused by Nash and Stoudemire

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More!
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Golden State runs the least screen/roll in the NBA since 2015 or so. Look deeper.

[@slakcheetah4989]

This was a well made video but the title is a bit misleading…very little time is spent actually explaining what the pick and roll is, and it’s not explained in a way that would make sense to many non-basketball fans

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Trying to teach this to my kids this taught all of us. Thanks

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No mention of Mark Price. Hmmm

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Give and go next?

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You can also ice a pick and roll

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