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Parquet plays: Kemba Walker Spain pick-and-roll

In the final possession of the first half against the Philadelphia 76ers, we saw the return of a play that’s designed to get Kemba Walker an open three. The Spain pick-and-roll is where a secondary screen takes place after the initial pick-and-roll action, with the caveat that the second screen is a back pick.

The point of a Spain pick-and-roll is to force the defense to collapse, before kicking the ball back out to the perimeter for a wide-open three. On this play, the back-pick set by Walker and Theis’ hard roll through the middle have put Tobias Harris under huge pressure to offer help defense.