Draw a set on a half or full court, animate it step by step and send your team a link that plays it in 3D. Your playbook sits next to your drills, practice plans and rosters.
SpotBasket Playbook Maker is an online basketball play designer inside SpotBasket OS. Coaches place offense, defense, the ball and cones on a half or full court diagram, draw cuts, passes and screens across frames, then play the set back as an animation or in a 3D viewer that players open from a shared link.
Pick a half or full court in vertical or horizontal orientation, then place numbered offense and defense players, the ball and cones.
Build a play as a sequence of frames with a title, instructions and duration for each step. Playback animates movement between them.
Draw movement with straight, curved and dashed lines, mark passes and screens, and add text, circles and rectangles for coaching notes.
Open a published play in a 3D viewer where animated players run the set on a basketball court, so athletes see spacing and timing.
Publish a play, decide whether coaches and players can see it, and share a public link that opens in any browser without a login.
Attach plays to exercises in the drill library so the diagram and the drill go into practice together.
Open a new playbook, give it a name, choose the court type and start placing players. Offense and defense get their own colors, numbers and position labels such as PG or C, and you can mark who has the ball. Movement tools cover straight and curved cuts, dashed lines, passes and screens, while cones, chairs, pads and hurdles handle drill setups.
Every change is saved automatically, and undo and redo work the way you expect. Because the editor runs in the browser, you can sketch a set on a laptop in the office and show it on a tablet at courtside without installing anything. It replaces the dry-erase coach board without losing what you drew.
A play is a series of frames. Add a frame, move the players to their next spots and the playback animates the transition, so the timing of a cut or a screen is visible instead of implied. Each frame can carry its own title, written instructions and duration, which turns a diagram into a short lesson players can replay on their own.
When a play is published, SpotBasket OS can show it in a 3D viewer: animated players run the set on a rendered basketball court, and the ball follows the passes you drew. Players who struggle to read circles and arrows on a basketball play diagram usually understand spacing faster when they watch it from a player's-eye angle.
Plays are stored in a shared playbook, not on one coach's phone. Label each one as a play or an exercise, add tags like pick-and-roll, zone or press break, and filter the list when you need a specific set before a game. Duplicate a play to build variations, or create a translated copy for a Spanish- or Russian-speaking group.
Access settings decide who sees what. Keep a play private to your coaching staff while you work on it, then turn on player access or publish a public link once it is ready. Attached to drills in the drill library, the same diagram shows up wherever that drill is used, so your practice plans stay consistent.
| Without SpotBasket OS | With SpotBasket OS | |
|---|---|---|
| Drawing a play | Marker on a whiteboard, erased after practice | Drawn once in the editor and saved to the club playbook |
| Showing timing | Coach walks players through it again and again | Frame-by-frame animation shows who moves when |
| Sharing with players | Blurry photo of the clipboard in a group chat | A link that opens the play in 2D or 3D in any browser |
| Finding a play later | Scrolling through a notebook or a camera roll | Search by name, type and tags |
| Connecting plays to practice | Diagram and drill notes kept in different places | Plays attached to drills in the drill library |
| Changing a set | Redraw it from scratch | Edit one frame; changes save automatically |
Create your account at app.spotbasket.com and set up your club or coach profile in a few minutes.
Open Playbooks, choose a name, a type, a court and an orientation, and add tags so the play is easy to find later.
Place players and the ball, draw the first action, then add frames for each step with short instructions.
Publish the play, turn on player access or copy the public link, and let players watch it in 2D or 3D.
Sign in to SpotBasket OS, open Playbooks and create a new play on a half or full court. Drag offense and defense players and the ball onto the court, draw cuts, passes and screens, and add a frame for each step. The editor runs in the browser and saves automatically, so there is nothing to install.
You can start SpotBasket OS for free, and the Playbook Maker is part of the system rather than a separate purchase. Register at app.spotbasket.com to try it. Paid plans add more students, coaches and modules as your program grows — see the pricing page for what each plan includes.
Yes, players can open plays on a phone in any modern browser. Coaches either enable player access, so the play appears in the player's SpotBasket OS account, or publish it and share a public link. The link shows the animated play and a 3D view without requiring the player to log in.
Yes, published plays can be viewed in 3D. SpotBasket OS takes the frames you drew in 2D and plays them back with animated players on a rendered basketball court, following the same movements and passes. You draw once in the 2D editor; the 3D view is generated from that diagram.
A coach board or tactics board is for explaining a play in the moment, and it is erased afterward. A playbook maker saves each play, animates it step by step and lets you share it. SpotBasket Playbook Maker works as a digital coaching board at courtside and keeps every set in your club's playbook.
Yes, a play saved in SpotBasket OS is available to your whole coaching staff. You can duplicate it to build a variation for another team, or create a translated copy in English, Spanish or Russian linked to the original. Tags and filters keep large playbooks easy to search.
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