pick and roll

English

Noun

pick and roll (plural pick and rolls)

1. (basketball) An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass.
   • 2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic‎^[1]:

     He and [Dennis] Schröder developing pick-and-roll chemistry will certainly be an objective. [Markieff] Morris has a tendency to linger around the mid-range area after setting ball screens, but when he’s popping beyond the 3-point line, he can hurt defenses.

Related terms

• pick and pop

Translations

basketball maneuver

• Russian: пик-н-ро́лл (ru) m (pik-n-róll)