--- title: "Basketball Play Designer Online – Animate Plays" description: "Design basketball plays online, animate screens and cuts, and share your playbook with one link. Coach Board works on any device." url: "https://coachboard.app/basketball-play-designer" dateModified: "2026-09-19" --- # Basketball play designer that animates your playbook > Build horns, BLOBs and press breaks on a true-to-scale court, press play so the roster sees every read, and send the playbook as a link. ## What is a basketball play designer online? Coach Board is a basketball play designer online: build sets, animate screens and cuts, and send one link to your team. Place your five on a half-court or full-court board, draw the screens and cuts, press play, and share the animated playbook. It runs in the browser — laptop in the office, tablet on the bench. ## Design sets on a basketball court Open a half-court board for set plays and out-of-bounds, or a full court for press breaks and transition. Players are free-form: drop your five wherever the call starts, park shooters in the corners, and put both bigs on the elbows for horns — the floor markings stay true to scale so spacing is honest. Each set lives on its own board. Keep the horns package, the Spain action, BLOB and SLOB calls, and the press break in one playbook, grouped by squad or by opponent, instead of a folder of still images. - [Basketball coach board hub](https://coachboard.app/sports/basketball) - [Basketball set plays](https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/category/plays) ## Animate screens, cuts, and ball movement A play designer that only draws arrows still leaves the timing to the imagination. On Coach Board you sequence the possession: the ball screen, the roll or pop, the weak-side lift, the skip pass. Press play and the five move together so the cutter sees when to leave and the passer sees when the window opens. Loop the animation in film session, slow it at the point of the screen, and attach a note for the read — switch, hedge, or ice. That is what players remember on the floor: the movement, not the diagram. - [Spain pick-and-roll in the library](https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/spain-pick-and-roll) ## Share the playbook instantly When a set is ready, share the board as a link. Every player opens the same animated play on their phone — no app store step, no file to lose in the chat. Update the call and the link still points at the current version. Export a still or a short clip when you need something for the locker-room wall or a scout video. The playbook itself stays in Coach Board, next to the rest of the sets you run. - [Online coach whiteboard](https://coachboard.app/coach-whiteboard) ## Library of basketball drills Start from a set or drill coaches already run, then rebuild it on your court and animate the reads for your roster. - https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/horns-set-plays.md - https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/spain-pick-and-roll.md - https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/blob-box-set-plays.md - https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/17s-conditioning-drill.md - https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/slob-plays.md - https://coachboard.app/library/basketball/1-4-high-entries.md [Browse the basketball drills library](https://coachboard.app/library/basketball.md) ## FAQ ### How is a basketball play designer different from a generic whiteboard app? A generic whiteboard is a blank canvas. A basketball play designer starts on a true-to-scale court, lets you sequence screens, cuts and the ball as an animation, and stores every set in a playbook you can share as a link. Coach Board is built for that workflow — not for sticky notes and brainstorming. ### Is there a free trial of the play designer? Yes. Start a 14-day free trial at my.coachboard.app — no card, no commitment. After the trial, the Coach plan is $9/month (or $90/year) and includes unlimited boards, play animation, share links, and image and video export. ### What devices can I design basketball plays on? Any device with a browser: laptop for building the playbook, tablet on the bench, phone when you want to check a set. There is nothing to download. The same boards open everywhere. ### Can I keep a full playbook, not just one play? Yes. Unlimited boards — horns, Spain, BLOB, SLOB, zone offense, press break — organised by set, opponent or age group. Share one board or send the group your players need this week. ### Does the play designer do half-court and full-court? Both. Use half-court for set plays and out-of-bounds; use full-court for press breaks, transition and conditioning. Switch the surface without leaving the playbook. --- Try Coach Board free: https://my.coachboard.app