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3 Man Game

Reference details and unwritten routes are labeled. Teaching Record

6.5 3-Man Motions

  • Bang -- pass and flare (pass, flare away, slip, then pop).
  • Pirate -- 3-man Eyes.
  • Thumbs Up -- 3-man Get.
  • 3 Eyes, 3 Tilt -- added Jan 22. Pirate is the 3-man Eyes call. 3 Tilt's route is not written.
  • 4 Eyes, 4 Tilt (4-Man Motions) -- (unconfirmed recovered entry); not written.

6.6 3-Man Games -- Top and Side

Our 3-man games come as twins: the same action from the top or from the side. A family can be called by its family name with "top" or "side" (Core list: "Alpha (top and side)") or by the twin's own name. Both uses coexist.

Family Top Side One line
Alpha Alpha Bravo Ball screen, flare and dive.
Echo Echo Fox Pass, screen away, flash back into pin-down.
Hush Goggles (also "Hush Top") Hush Pass, screen away, flash back into Get.
Charlie Charlie Delta Charlie: Get and flare . Delta: cross cuts, curl back, Get (reference detail); reshape code 22.

Earlier fuller routes (reference detail):

  • Alpha/Bravo: cross cuts into the ball screen first.
  • Echo: screen away, Slice, pin-down.
  • Fox: UCLA/Flex, pop back, pin-down.
  • Hush: UCLA and 40, or Flex and 40.
  • Bazz's own first pass on Jan 27 : "Hush: pass, screen away into slice"; "Fox: pass, screen away, slash back into pin down."

Other 3-man games:

  • Joker (top) -- pass, screen away, flash back, scissor cuts.
  • Quick -- pinch post entry, cross screen. (Earlier: give and go into ball screen. (reference detail))
  • Klay -- windshield wiper: cross screen to 3, then flare to 3.
  • Fever -- on-ball screen into pitch. (Earlier: flare screen into pitch. (reference detail))
  • Roll -- give and go into ball screen; Right/Left.
  • Go 1, Go 2, Go 3 -- called Jan 22 ; routes not written.
  • Money, Snap, Laser, Thumb, Zulu -- Part III.

The same name at two scales is normal in our language. Joker the 5-man family (out of Tiger) and Joker the 3-man flash-back scissor game are both Bazz's. The call's category tells you which.