Offense & Shooting

Pick-and-Pop

nounbasketball term

A ball-screen action where the screener moves into open shooting space instead of rolling.

The action punishes big defenders who stay near the rim or overhelp on the ball handler. It requires a reliable shooting big.

Used in a sentence

“The center sat paint, so we ran pick-and-pop.”

Also written PnP · pick and pop

Community slang changes over time and can mean different things in different game editions, modes and groups.

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