re: Soft screens

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I'm not the biggest Xs and Os guys so maybe you can explain this one to me. More often than not it seems like our guards will go opposite the screen and not use the block being set up for them, and it's not even some quick direction change thing. It seems to work out to get them free, but getting free by not using a block seems counter intuitive to me. Is it pretty common around the league to not use the screen that the play is designed around?

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Yeah, its pretty common for guards who are looking to score.

If the defense is doing their job, somebody should be screaming which direction the pick is coming from. Guys looking to score will sometimes get defenders leaning one direction, expecting the pick, then crossover the opposite direction to get into the lane or a pullup jumper.
Tyreke can be frustrating because sometimes he'll try this twice in the same pick situation with Davis. Tries it, gets cut of. Tries again, gets cut off. Davis is frustrated and somebody ends having to take a bad shot late in the clock.

I think Gordon's the best on the team at reading when to use the screen and get to the rim, and when to make the little pocket pass to Davis for the open jumper.