Horns Hits A Triple Scoring Option

Horns sets work incredibly well when you have multiple outside shooters on the floor and people who have the ability to penetrate the lane, which is open due to the formation.

WHY USE IT

This set is hard to scout because it presents with outside and inside scoring opportunities, so defenders can’t cheat one way or the other, because then they get beaten.

SET UP

Your posts are at opposite elbows with your guards in opposite corners. The point guard has the ball at the top.

HOW TO PLAY

4 steps high to set a ball screen for 1. 1 dribbles off the ball screen as 4 then pops to the top. 5 diagonally cuts through the lane to the right-side block. 3 elevates out of the corner to the weak-side wing [1]. 1 reaches the wing, plants and reverses the ball back to 4 at the top. 1 and 2 then exchange positions with 1 moving to the right corner and 2 coming to the wing. 4 continues the ball reversal with a pass to 3. On that pass, 5 comes back across the lane to the left-side block [2]. After making the ball-reversal pass to 3, 4 now follows the ball to set a ball screen for 3. 3 dribbles hard off the ball screen and attacks the middle of the lane. 1 and 2 are in position to catch and shoot on the right side, or 3 can dribble-attack all the way to the rim [3].

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TECHNIQUE

Usually the best option is a kick-out pass to 2 on the wing as 2’s defender collapses to stop the ball when 3 turns the corner toward the lane.