4 Out Motion

Four Out Motion is an excellent option for coaches looking to implement a conceptual style of offense that provides spacing for your post player and screening actions for the perimeter players.

 I have always been a proponent of employing an offensive approach that emphasized the strengths of our team. In the early years of my coaching career, I would typically accomplish this by establishing our spacing and adding a number of set plays that were designed to create advantages for our best players. This set-play-heavy approach was one that I found some success with but was ultimately a strategy I found myself increasingly tired of. This approach forced me to spend excessive amounts of practice time on choreographed movements and during games, we were heavily reliant on me making play calls.

 Slowly I found myself gravitating toward a Motion Style offenses. Ones that established a few basic movement rules and mostly relied on spacing to create shots. While I might sprinkle in a set play here and there, I found this more conceptual style of coaching far more enjoyable. This more conceptual style of coaching offense was more enjoyable for me personally, but it didn't mean that our teams were suddenly immune from the ups and downs of high school seasons. Despite this shift in philosophy I still maintained a belief that even Motion Style offenses should be centered around our team's strengths. Following a difficult offensive year in 2015-2016, I wanted to spend time looking into ways to improve our Motion Offense from a macro perspective. I wanted to find a way to maximize spacing for our 5 Man while also creating more natural screening actions for our perimeter players. What I settled on was a Four Out Motion structure that built-in ways to accomplish those goals.

• Spacing & Roles
• Using Down Screens
• Post Entry Reactions
• Flare Screen Option
• Slot to Wing DHO