1: Darius Morris

2: Stu Douglass

3: Tim Hardaway Jr.

4: Zach Novak

5: Jordan Morgan

The Wolverines opened up with a set to take

advantage of Darius Morris’ driving ability.

Coming off two screens and looking to get to the

rim, Morris has three shooter spotted up beyond

the arc.

HALF-COURT OFFENSE

CIRCLE

Offensive Plan of Attack:

Penetrate the lane; kick to open three’s

Control the tempo

Create mismatches with on-ball screens

Backdoor cuts for open lay-ups

2011 NCAA Tournament—2nd Round vs . Duke 3/20/2011

JOHN BEILEIN: MICHIGAN OFFENSE

Created by: Jimmie Oakman

jimmie.oakman@gmail.com

1: Matt Vogrich

2: Stu Douglass

3: Tim Hardaway Jr.

4: Zach Novak

5: Jordan Morgan

MICHIGAN FLARE ACTION

MICHIGAN FLEX ACT ION

1: Darius Morris

2: Stu Douglass

3: Matt Vogrich

4: Zach Novak

5: Evan Smotrycz

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JOHN BEILEIN: MICHIGAN OFFENSE

A pressure release set to initiate some move-

ment against an intense Duke defense. Utilizing

this play six times, you see how important the

drive and kick game is for Beilein’s offense.

Darius Morris begins with a drib-

ble hand-off to Matt Vogrich. On

the ball reversal to Novak,

Smotrycz banana cuts to a flex

screen for Morris and pops to the

three-point line. As the defense

helps on the flex screen, Novak

skips to Smotrycz for the quick

shot or the drive.

Douglass starts with a hard drive

and dribble-exchanges with No-

vak on the wing. As Douglass

breaks the three-point plane,

Vogrich steps in to seal Smo-

trycz’s man. Smotrycz steps back

off of the flare screen for the

open look from Novak.

1: Darius Morris

2: Stu Douglass

3: Tim Hardaway Jr.

4: Zach Novak

5: Jordan Morgan

STAGGER

I SO-POP ACTION

Smotrycz goes to set a

dummy down-screen for

Novak in the corner, who

rejects it and backdoors.

Douglass then uses the

side-screen and looks to

turn the corner. If the

defense hedges off of

Smotrycz, Douglass re-

verse pivots and hits him

for the three.

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1: Stu Douglass

2: Matt Vogrich

3: Tim Hardaway Jr.

4: Zach Novak

5: Evan Smotrycz

1: Stu Douglass

2: Matt Vogrich

3: Tim Hardaway Jr.

4: Zach Novak

5: Evan Smotrycz

As Morris hits Morgan in the middle, he and

Douglass go to set the double-down on Hardaway’s

man. Hardaway comes off aggressively receiving the

pass from Morgan, who immediately sets the ball

screen. Hardaway makes the read to either shoot

over the defense or to attack the weakside with

Novak in the corner.

1: Darius Morris

2: Stu Douglass

3: Tim Hardaway Jr.

4: Zach Novak

5: Jordan Morgan

BASELINE OUT OF BOUNDS

SL IP AND ROLL

Knowing that Duke was switching on ball screens,

Beilein drew up this play to counter their pressure.

Morris hits Douglass and blasts to the strongside.

Douglass hits Hardaway who pops up from the

corner and then fades wide on the weakside wing.

Morgan takes two steps toward Hardaway and

immediately slips the screen. Both Duke defenders

went with Morgan to the rim as Hardaway buried

a three over the defense.

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1: Darius Morris

2: Stu Douglass

3: Tim Hardaway Jr.

4: Zach Novak

5: Jordan Morgan

Bottom Left: Again using switches against

the defense, Hardaway screens for

Douglass and on the switch, dives right to

the rim.

Bottom Right: Same set-up, looking to hit

Morgan for the lob right away. Morris in-

bounds to Douglass and turns to post on

the block