Court IQ: Basketball Reads

Six seconds on the shot clock. Your big sets a high screen, your defender goes under it, and the help is already sitting in the paint. Pull up, hit the roller, or swing it to the open corner? Court IQ stops a full 5-on-5 basketball game at moments like that and lets you choose for the highlighted player. Each option is scored from where all ten players stand, how fast they move and which way they face. Then you see your choice and the best one played out side by side, and the game runs on from yours. Beat the screen All six pick-and-roll coverages are in it: fight over, go under, switch, ice, drop and show. On defense you choose the coverage. With the ball you read it: the pocket pass to the roller, the lob, the pull-up, the floater, the step-back three, or attacking the closeout. Play inside a real system Twelve coaches each run their own offense, from the triangle and Princeton to five-out, pace and space and post and grind, and each defends their own way: pack line, a 2-3 zone, pressure, hedge, switch, drop or ice. Before tip-off your coach sets the plan. After every read they say why it worked or didn't, in their own voice. Basketball's rules The 24-second shot clock and its reset to 14, backcourt and 8-second violations, three seconds at both ends, personal and team fouls, the bonus, free throws and fouling out. Late in a close game the other team fouls on purpose, and you decide whether to use your foul to give. Work on your position Choose point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward or center, or drill one kind of read: with the ball, away from it, or on defense. Coach Jo is free for good, and every other coach can be tried for five decisions before you unlock them. No ads, no account, and it plays offline.