There are many names for it, but one of the most powerful actions in basketball involves pausing the dribbling, chasing a pass and restarting it again. This detailed film breakdown explores how hard it is to guard this blend of on-ball and off-ball offense, how integral it is to today’s 2-man game, the history of pass-and chase and how it connects the pick-and-roll and 3-point movement shooting of the modern NBA.
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@9:42 That action is called a give-and-go. Basic passing in soccer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt this just a variation of the "give and go"?
Pretty much when you're in a league where everyone is great, teams have to resort to pre-choreographed routes designed to shed resistance. It rises the gameplay above the level of capability and turns it into a game of strategy. Same thing in football. The more confusing to the defense, the better. We can say for sure there should never be an "end" to the evolution of offense or defense in professional sports. I think Jokic/Murray have the best ball movement back + forth right now. They clearly spend hours together every week designing and running new routines.
Basically Murray's whole game last championship run
Playing pickup ball, a dribble handoff is pretty much as offensively coordinated as it gets and has always felt op.
So interesting to see it prove itself as a legitimate, dominant strategy in elite competition rather than a noob strat for rec games.
It’s crazy how much the pick and roll has evolved. Even 30 years ago they barely did it. It was an occasional thing. Most teams tried iso with a good player and then maybe a little PNR. It’s breaking defenses now.
This is kind of football’s equivalent of 1‐2 passing
Is it just me or was Draymond featured a lot in this video 😂
Pistol Pete!
8:57 a good look at what the Giannis/Dame pick and roll could become soon enough
The give and get.
Bruh am I tripping or is this just literally a “give n go” … like if I’m stupid just say that but I swear this is nothing new fr like at all lol smh
Edit: I’m not even tryna be a asshole but it’s a lot of casuals or maybe just younger individuals in the comments I guess because I’m blowed that ppl are calling a simple “give n go” play “innovative” or “a cheat code” and crediting the “give n go” to the evolution of todays basketball when it’s been around literally since the beginning.
Dumb question, but why do they wipe the floors using rags on their hands and knees? Do they not have a dry mop that they can quickly go out there and do instead of kneeling down like that?
This dude watched naruto lmao
Wow I was just thinking about this last night.
Crazy coincidence
I see this as an opportunity to win by becoming the team that knows how to defend this type of play, if offense becomes so good that it's unstoppable and everyone knows how to do it, then the game becomes knowing how best to stop it from being effective.
Really awesome video.
can we please get this Draymond back 🙁
This became popular bc of the leniency of moving screen call.
Surprised Webber wasn't used as an example. His DHO game was god-tier.
Give and go?
if im right thats called drop off right?
Insane evolution in offense now 💪🔥💪
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Going to need a YT s*** post of "this is an off-ball attack" with Draymond's haymaker to Nurk
so basketball version of "through" ball in Football/soccer?
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a give and go…
I love learning more about sport plays. Makes watching the games more enjoyable
This is possible partly because players today are so good at shooting and / or finishing at the rim with the slightest of daylight. The play creates just a very very brief window which defenders of the past would not have been to worried to give away because the percentages of whatever the offensive player would have attempted would have been sufficiently low.
I think this is just an intermediary step in a longer evolution. I bet defenses will adjust to this pretty soon and then offenses will add an extra wrinkle to it and so on…
I actually invented the dribble hand off back in the day. It was a staple of my team for a few years and always left the help defender in a frenzy because no one in the world had seen anything like it. I was very ahead of my time
niggas jus discovered a 1-2 😂
That Nash play is fist 21 Nash in 2k20 great play
It’s called a give and go
12 minutes to confirm DHO is in fact good
As I have watched, I realized that a lot of similar actions can be seen in the 1960s and 1970s NBA offenses and of course you didn't disappoint later in the video, providing some examples.
Great video as always!
Off ball movement is a necessity in football/soccer, that's what always struck me with the GSW dinasty and the spurs before that. It was so similar to football
What a great, educational video
And here I thought you were going to talk about the prevalence of carrying and travelling in the NBA.
At first I thought you meant all the carrying that happens nowadays.
You do such a good job of explaining the nuance in these moves to make it easy for a lay person like me to understand. It exponentially increases my enjoyment of the game knowing the impact that a subtlety such as the difference between a DHO and this on/off ball dribble action has on the play. Top drawer.
Looks about how football matches are played. Almost like basketball and soccer are almost the same.
thanks
It's crazy because the stuff we've been seeing in the NBA is unironically stuff I've been doing on the 2K park for years. Running three 6'8 players who can do pretty much everything and doing dribble handoffs and off ball plays
Picks moving , double dribles, travelling, theatrics on shooting, stops on euro step… I wish I could be a ref just for one game. These MF's would "love" me, putting that Over to 89-91.
Yet another way how Steph and Warrior offense changed the game. They been doing it so effectively (just like the 3-pointers many years back) that the teams are (forced to) doing the same.
Is this supposed to be profound?