Digital Playbook: Motion Alignments

50 Alignment: 

• Five players on the court who have good perimeter skills

• You want to extend the defense and open up the paint

• Can be used for a delay game

• You don’t have a true post player

• It can be used to open up driving gaps for slashers

• The "flank" player should be spaced high and wide

• Players can fill the dunker spot temporarily during a possession if their role is defined as such

41 Alignment:

• You have a skilled post player

• You have a great post screener

• You want a permanent dunker

• You want to maintain a more open spacing on the perimeter

41 High Alignment:

• You have a skilled post player who is a good screener and is a threat to make a play after popping to the perimeter

• You want to pull away a great shot blocker from the basket