Wheel Offense Action Playbook: Continuity Ball Screen Offense

The college basketball team most associated with Wheel Offense Action (Continuity Ball Screen Offense) — a pin down on one side of the court with a flare screen on the other — is Virginia. It’s the exact action that is repeated within their Blocker-Mover offense. This season, Arizona might actually be the high-major getting the most mileage out of wheel action. In Sean Miller’s offense, Nico Mannion will bring up the ball and dribble handoff to the wing as an initiation into wheel action.  For a team with so much young talent (that doesn’t necessarily need to rely on great action to generate shots), Arizona has done a reasonable job using the wheel to lead directly to points. Especially with the flare screen, Mannion alertly finds Green cutting to the hoop off the screen. Unlike “positionless basketball”, both of Virginia’s offenses assign distinct roles to guards and bigs. In the Blocker-Mover, the guards (aka Movers) runoff pin down and flare screens while the bigs (aka Blockers) se