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The Overloaded Side (Skip Window)

Four teammates on one side means one man alone on the other — and one pass that beats the entire shifted defense.

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THE TRIGGER — ONE LOOK

Count the strong side: four offensive shirts, the whole defense leaning with them, and one teammate standing all alone across the floor.

YOUR JOB, BY WHERE YOU'RE STANDING

Ballhandler

Throw the skip over the top to the lone weakside man — now, while the defense is loaded to your side.

Every defender shifted toward the overload has to cross the whole floor to recover. One pass beats three rotations; a drive into four bodies beats nobody.

Weakside wing

Stay high and wide on your side — do not drift toward the ball.

Your spacing is the whole play. Wide and high keeps the skip window open and stretches your helper's recovery; creeping toward the ball closes the window for him.

Strong corner

Lift out of the corner to the wing as the ballhandler sizes up the skip.

Lifting drags your defender up out of help, hands the ballhandler a pressure outlet, and clears the baseline for the drive when the skip catcher attacks the closeout.

THE NEXT BEAT

The instant the skip is in the air, every helper has to sprint back across the floor — the nearest one arrives in a dead sprint, which is exactly the long closeout the catcher attacks next.

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