here's a brilliant play from the miami heat:
bam adebayo brings the ball down the court. he slows down at the top of the key and waits for two screen actions to develop:
on the strong side, duncan robinson sets a backscreen for jimmy butler
on the weak side, andre iguodala sets a pindown screen for tyler herro
let's just focus on what happens on the strong side.
the two dallas mavericks defending robinson and butler decide to switch on the screen (as is often the case with defending any set involving robinson, as you don't want to give him any room to pop out for a three).
tim hardaway jr. picks up butler, who cuts through all the way below the basket, and dorian finney-smith picks up robinson.
because of the way the two mavs were positioned before the switch happened, this automatically puts finney-smith in a top-lock position against robinson and it completely takes away duncan's likelihood of popping open for an easy dribble hand-off or open 3:
if you pause it here, it looks like pretty good defense.
a screen was set, everyone's still covered, and there are no mismatches anywhere:
unfortunately for the mavs, miami's goal was to put dallas in this exact situation.
the top-locked robinson, still connected to finney-smith, immediately walks into setting another back screen for bam.
this catches dwight powell completely off-guard (even if it didn't, most big men aren't used to being the on-ball defender in a pick-and-roll/pop) and bam is able to use the robinson/dfs double screen to waltz to the rim for an open layup.
(bonus points to bam for never picking up his dribble too. he's so damn versatile.)
jj redick and joel embiid used to run stuff like this all the time when they were in philly together (in my opinion the sixers really screwed up letting jj go - his chemistry with embiid and ben simmons was amazing):
nice play design.
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