Understanding the following will help you choose the right set plays, you need in basketball competition

Your offensive set. It’s best to choose set plays that have the same formation as your offensive set. So for example, if you run your primary offense from a box set, it’s best to choose plays that have a similar box formation. This way the defense doesn't get a cue to what’s coming.
 

• Your personnel. This is important. If you have a phenomenal post player that is great at scoring inside, then you’ll want to choose lots of plays that will get them open inside. If your post game is poor but you have great shooters and ball handlers, then choose plays that spread things out and keep the defense off balance.

You’ll need to carefully consider your players strengths and weaknesses when choosing your set plays.

• Your coaching preferences and philosophy. Not much needs to be said about this because it happens naturally. But this is a consideration. Are you a conservative coach that likes to slow things down and execute in the half court? Do you want to run and gun? Do you want to shoot lots of three pointers? All this will reflect the plays that you choose.

• Will you run the same plays and set offense every year? Or will you find new ones each year? This could obviously eliminate the plays you ran last year.

• What are your plays designed to do? Most coaches have a dozen or so plays in their back pocket to deal with various situations. So the first thing you should is do make a list of the various situations you want to be prepared for.

To give you an idea, you might want a couple plays to get post players open, a couple plays when you need a basket during the game, a couple plays for end of game situations, and a couple plays for the end of periods. But keep in mind, it’s better to just have a few good plays, that your players become really good at, rather than overloading your team with too many options.