We have all been faced with a game situation that called for us to have a set play to get our best player the ball in his most productive area of the floor. Too often we tend to go only to these set entries in late game situations. It has always made sense to me that if we can devise an entry to get our best player his best shot in a late game situation, when the defense usually knows we are looking for our "go-to" guy, then we ought to think about using our entries during the normal flow of the game.

Why? I believe that the goal of every possession we have is to get as good a shot as possible and to have as good a chance to get the offensive rebound should the shot not go in. With this in mind, we have devised an entry system that gives a minimum of three entries to our post people and a minimum of three entries for our perimeter players.

The exact cuts and set action are not what's important here. Rather it is certain concepts that are our constant year after year as we devise our entries for our players. The following concepts help form the foundation of our entry system.

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