4-Corners Basketball Delay Offense Animation

The late, legendary coach Dean Smith is often credited as the originator of the 4-corners delay offense at North Carolina years ago. Actually, it was former North Carolina College coach John McClendon who first authored it in the 1940's - early 50's. This less well-known coach also pioneered basketball's full court game, the full court press, the full court zone (zone press), the open post offense whose variants include the "four corners", the rotating pivot, and the double-pivot.

Coach Smith made it popular at the University of North Carolina and the Tarheels delay offense so dominated the tempo of the game that the NCAA subsequently created the shot clock rule. High school teams that are not affected by a shot clock rule could use this half-court offense when wanting to take time off the clock. Teams can also use it when going for a last shot, or when wanting to go for only a good, high percentage shot.

Also if you have the lead and the opponent changes to zone defense, use this as counter strategy to get the zone defense to come out and play man-to-man. Just hold the ball until they come out of their zone.

For those of you who run the Flex offense, you might prefer to run the "High-Flex Delay Offense" as your delay offense.

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