Double Stack Cut and Seal
A baseline out of bounds play against man-to-man: 2 steps with diagrams and coaching points.
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How it works
A baseline play from a double stack along the ball-side lane line. 2 cuts off the double screen to the rim for the first look. If that is covered, 2 seals across the lane while 3 loops from the weak-side slot around the arc and off the same double to the ball-side corner for a three. The read is the top defender of the double: if that defender helps on 2's cut, 3 comes out open.
When to use it
Under your basket, against man-to-man, when you want a rim look first and a corner three second.
Personnel
4 and 5 stack as a double screen on the ball-side lane line. 2 is a cutter who can finish at the rim and then seal. 3 is your shooter, running the long loop to the corner. 1 inbounds and reads the top defender of the double.
Step by step
Step 1. Diagram only.
Step 2. Diagram only.
Reads
- First read. 2 cutting straight to the rim off the double screen.
- Second read. 3 looping from the weak-side slot off the same double to the ball-side corner for a catch-and-shoot three. Pass to 3 if the top defender of the double helped on 2.
Counter
If 2's cut is denied and 3's defender follows closely, 2 has already sealed across the lane: look for 2 sealing before you give up the ball.
Teaching cues
- Screeners: stay tight and square, hold the screen until both cutters are through.
- 3: take a wide loop, run shoulder to hip off the screen, then square up.
- Inbounder: your first read is the rim, your second is the corner. Watch the top defender of the double.
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- Version
- 1 (current), approved October 1, 2026
- Published by
- Ball Coach
- Source
- Published by Ball Coach under its first-party license, credited to Ball Coach. Released as a fixed version; any later edit gets a new version number.
- Use
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Topics
- Baseline out of bounds
- Man-to-man
- Curl cut
- Double screen
- Loop
- Seal
- Stagger screen