This is one of the best offenses I've ever seen. Another great video Jordan.

@schuylersavage276

Ай бұрын

Wow, the GOAT watches this too heck yeaH

Thank you for pointing that out, I was so upset when the commentator said that, it was obviously a set play and a great one!

@mals4827

2 ай бұрын

thats cap..aint no way you paid attention to that little of a detail while watching a game live

@mauricegibson599

2 ай бұрын

Nah i definitely heard and saw that. Like he said Conn has run that play multiple times

@Christopher-dd1ph

2 ай бұрын

LOOOOOOL RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.

@l.wilson3484

2 ай бұрын

I agree, this is cap because no UCONN fan would ever refer to Donny Marshall as “the commentator”. Unless maybe you’re under 25 and know absolutely nothing about the history of UCONN basketball. Donny is a Husky OG. Maybe you became a fan last year LOL

@rocky25579

2 ай бұрын

He is terrible on color for UConn games @@l.wilson3484 Also you would know it's spelled UConn fan. Maybe you became a fan last year

Stumbled across this in my post-championship KZread UCONN rabbit hole. I wish I had known about this channel sooner - brilliant stuff that would have helped me enjoy this NCAA season even more.

looking forward to the march madness vid with one detail about every team. One of the best series on KZread.

@gaff4798

2 ай бұрын

faacts

This video rules. Keep making more of them, especially about how good and cool UConn is.

@colangelog09

2 ай бұрын

Very agree, go Huskies!

This is a different breed of UConn than the early 2000s. So much teamwork and set play. It’s great to watch them pick apart a defense

I only got into basketball after leaving university and have never played organised basketball at any level. I love all these types of videos because without these i am so oblivious to all these things that are going on on the court when watching. Thanks for explaining all this stuff in a way that amateurs like myself can understand 😂

@elangsamud8177

2 ай бұрын

I agree, i am also oblivious that basketball actually like have set play, rather than playing as it is

@brendancarr1186

2 ай бұрын

Hey to be fair, plenty of people (if not most) who have been playing all their life are oblivious to a lot of these things!

@EthanC_09

Ай бұрын

Trust me, even people that played basketball through high school don’t realize how intricate the UConn offense is. If you notice, aside from Castle, they aren’t crazy athletic. They have amazing IQ and fundamentals.

wow wish i saw this early in the season definitley would have enjoyed watching more! I loved watching there offense make some more even last years team too.. Hurley is a genius!

Have to have high IQ players to perform all these actions.

@hiimpaul9614

Ай бұрын

I disagree slightly. They just continually run wrinkles out of the same sets. Another principal you will see is that every time a player makes a pass, he will cut or set a screen. US basketball has put too much attention on iso ball. It's great to have players who are good in isolation, but giving them the advantage by setting up this type of action gives them more opportunity to create. But most of this offense gives each player 1 of 3 choices during any point in the action. Why is the majority of CBB lagging behind? I don't know.

@blyman7170

26 күн бұрын

@@hiimpaul9614 After the nation saw just how awesome Uconn was this past season, i expect to see a lot of coaches playing the copy cat game and implementing more complex offensive sets. No joke, Uconn's offense this year was on par with Euro pro teams.

There is a concept of strategic convergence. Where styles or strategies arrive at the same plays via different routes. Like pack line man defense vs matchup zone, was that a help side play or was he covering his area. Was that a variation of a set play or just a common improvisation pattern? Hard to tell. Reminds of high school basketball in the 90's complicated set plays with many variations, then along came MJ and the Bulls, then everyone wanted to do motion offense based on certain principles like spacing and movement. The funny thing about motion was, well we ran out of new ideas as a team pretty quickly and were back to basically running the same improvised plays over and over again. I like all the screening. As a role player, that was some of the most fun, getting to set a screen on a hot shot. It's a big floor what happens away from the ball is really important!

The offense is similar to european style of basketball where there is constant movement, spacing and passing.

Never seen an offense this organized and well run! So good to see in this age of one on one, I need to get mine.

Love how the offense is always moving. Teams of the past seemed to look more static.

Dan Hurley deserves so much more respect than he gets. I feel like he doesn’t get as much respect as other big time coaches but he wins championships and has built a dominant program

@bigtimetimmyjim6486

2 ай бұрын

Trust me, we in UConn country respect the hell out of him, never thought we would get back to winning championships after Calhoun.

@outlawrogers7101

Ай бұрын

Dan Hurley made URI relevant during his stay there.

@stefanerwin9441

Ай бұрын

He's not a big time coach

@bigtimetimmyjim6486

Ай бұрын

@@stefanerwin9441 He led a team to a national title last year as a result of his system and currently has a team ranked #1 overall, not a big time coach my ass lol.

@johnadamo5140

29 күн бұрын

​@@stefanerwin9441 you watched this video [I'm sure], the last two seasons of UCONN, and reached this conclusion? 😂

Thanks for pointing out the real essence of basketball. I've always appreciated cuts and screens. This brings to mind the 1977-78 Portland Trailblazers.

Great video! I was in Houston for the final four last year, and man... what a team! I Enjoyed every second watching UCONN play. Can't wait to see them again this March.

I love your videos and have learned a ton about basketball from your channel! I actually use a lot of the concepts you talk about when coaching Lacrosse as well.

Some set plays but lots of reading the defense and reacting and flowing into different actions depending on player read. There's players rejecting and cutting and one of those cuts a dude even shows frustration from not getting the ball, it's definately set plays but also reading defense, reacting and having progressions and nuances to their sets and actions.

Very insightful for basketball coaches on how to build their system. You don't have to take these actions, but rather get an idea of how to connect sequences from different sets and be more unpredictable. Well done Spencer, 10/10.

They ran this same set play during the championship game

Dan Hurley out here teaching Summertime Spurs offense to college players.

I always thought that UCONN has a beautiful offense that is very hard to guard because of the constant movement. They don't really run a lot of Isolation stuff you see teams doing to get guys one on one.

Awesome breakdown... What an incredible college offense run by very unselfish players.

@maxwellscott-bz8bf

Ай бұрын

Tis how you get good teams.

Death By A Thousand Cuts

Best offense in CBB since Nova 18 with 4 first rounders. Team is elite. Clingan is a top 10 pick, Castle is definitely top 20

This video does a really good job with the numbers and little screen signs to show you where the juice is happening in the play... the problem is that it's so fast and complex I still can't understand a thing. 😂

@BrianKervick

2 ай бұрын

Imagine guarding UConn lol.

@Ajak1033

2 ай бұрын

@@BrianKervickyou can’t. They won’t be beat on a neutral court. Expect back 2 back. Just incredible basketball. Hurley has built a fully operational Death Star that is incapable of being blow up.

How do they get all of this offense installed and repped? Hurley is one hell of a coach

@juwuanb32

2 ай бұрын

Easy you teach kids how to screen and read a screen.

@timothysnow5

2 ай бұрын

recruit smart players and force them to study on their own time or else they don't play.

Anyone else see a little Harlem Globetrotters in those UConn sets?

Great breakdown; this team has been a delight to watch. Let's go UConn Huskies!

Was watching their game vs Seton Hall and was amazed about how many actions were happening every possession. Great video.

This was 🔥. Great job

Love this breakdown! Thank you!

Fantastic analysis and observation. Enlightening video. Thank you!

This is such a great vidoe. I'm sure it took a ton of time to make, but I'm sure glad you did!

That fall after the dunk looked scary asf

11:22 It’s like spamming the cut button in NBA 2K 😂. Amazing stuff here.

Fantastic videos man

Was waiting for another video from you 😁

What make it "intricate " is its action on all side of the floor ...where most offense is just top side like dribble handoffs . They have screens all over while also dribble hand off. A Pirate and Jersey legend! Great job Dan!

The biggest thing that makes their offense successful is the IQ of the players reading these screens and defender's reactions to them. Hurley seems to have done a phenomenal job of teaching how to play motion offense to these players. Most of the things that happen in these plays aren't "set" in the way of you have to do it this way, but in the way the player reads the defender and his teammates read him.

Saving this in a folder for future reference! Thanks.

Best college basketball channel by far keep it up I watch every vid

Was curious… UConn does in fact lead all teams in Assists per possession their combo of on-ball and off-ball movement is magical

Pure poetry. Offensive mad science at its best.

Man all your videos are great. Is there a breakdown on how to drill this in practice?

Great video!! Haven’t watched much of UCONN this year but I really love all of the moving pieces on offense. As a fan we sometimes wonder how do they keep getting open or more common “why doesn’t anyone play defense”?!😂 Great job breaking it down. I have a newfound respect for UCONN hoops now.

Great Content!

This offense is surgical. Hurley is the best in-game coach i have ever seen.

Great video. Beautiful basketball!

Need more of these videos!!!

UCONN is amazing...totally off the charts!

Very well done!!

Thank you for the education. I never knew all the insides of running plays and I'm a big Uconn fan.😊

this aged well

Hey man great video. As someone who sees the game in a similar manner to you, where are you getting your film and how are you editing it? I'd really like to learn and work with you or make my own videos one day. Really great stuff man.

The spacing they get is great because teams don’t want to have to gaurd a motion offense team all game if their not in shape

Cooper Flagg didn’t want to play high IQ basketball

@clayc5929

Ай бұрын

The Flagg clan was never very bright

This was beautiful.

Huskies fan here - GREAT breakdown! Subscribed. Go Huskies!!

You better do this for every other No. 1 seed! Coaches everywhere are studying this 😅

Unmentioned in this video analysis is that generally UConn has advantages in bulk and length in all these examples, plus the confusion created is frequently related to missed assignments due to defensive scheme. Let's see how UConn'iffense does against a team and defense that isn't so easy to beat like SDSU, which us big, man to man and won't likely be pushed around so easily. And, SDSU had a taste of UConn's offense as recently as last year's title game.

@mrjonsey

Ай бұрын

SDSU has a very solid defense but they don’t have the offense to keep up imo

you are the greatest basketball youtuber ever this is the best video ever jordan you are awesome

Fantastic breakdwon

Great video!! I've been waiting for this one ;)

Great analogy on the Huskies. Sounds to me like Hurley may have a potential dynasty going in Stors. If they win again it just may be true.

Jesus bro. Imagine trying to guard that for 40 minutes 😂

@blyman7170

26 күн бұрын

Exactly why Uconn was such a deadly second half team.

@pswish2163

25 күн бұрын

I'd guard it somewhat soft for 12 seconds, as they run around in circles, and clamp down as they get within 6 seconds of shooting. They are wearing teams down bc they are clamping down every second of each possession.

@blyman7170

25 күн бұрын

@@pswish2163 Guard it soft and they just dump it down to Clingan for easy points or open threes

My eyes don’t know where to look 😂

Excellent video analysis. Is it possible to get these options on a board instead of live action?

Excellent breakdown!

I love your videos

Beautiful

I remember watching this scissor play and seeing a potential for a screen in the middle freeing up either side, depending on which one the defense chased. It's almost unstoppable.

now the two most efficient offense face in the final four, Uconn vs Alabama

This team is an absolute juggernaut…it’s hard to repeat, but man, this team is well set to do it

You should do a video on Illinois 5-out offense because it is 3rd in efficiency and the fact that it is 5-out makes it so unique and interesting to analyze

Great Breakdown Analysis ! Thank U. Imagine what the 1st Round team is gonna feel like, when before they know it.... They down by 30 & Dizzy 😵. 😂

Looks like they have a motion rule to cut every time they are overplayed. A lot of those are reads/counters to their continuity but the color commentator wasn’t wrong there’s a lot of motion. In fact, maybe these counters started happening so often that they added it to their continuity. Great video and thank you for taking the time to explain this!

This is gonna be clutch for the scouting report

This is why Coach Hurley is amazing. Cuts and screens are not particularly matchup dependent. You can always use them to get say Spencer guarded by a slower big, or Karaban guarded by a smaller guard. But doing so many with the players having a choice in the mechanics makes for a really potent offense.

I love your videos. We’d love to have you in CT for pizza and a game!

Nice video. Connecticut is a really dominant team on both ends of the court, but especially offense. I wonder, though, since all of these videos feature defenses which are playing man-to-man (which, I imagine, is how you have to handle the Huskies), how does the Connecticut offense respond to zone-based defenses?

Great video!

Man this video gives me hope again

For what UConn does you need multiple guys that can score at the perimeter, on any given night there are at least four guys that can ruin the other team's night.

@mr.nobody9697

2 ай бұрын

5 possibly 6. We have 5 players that have score 20+ points in a game at least twice. Thats crazy.

@jeromedanielson4422

2 ай бұрын

@@mr.nobody9697 I would love to see how Houston's defense would match up against UConn's offense, that would be a helluva game!

@jeromedanielson4422

2 ай бұрын

I just looked at Houston's roster, they give up a lot of size to UConn at just about every position.

@mr.nobody9697

2 ай бұрын

@@jeromedanielson4422 Yeah thatd be a problem for Houston but i think they could give Uconn a good game. Problem is Uconn is also tough defensively but can score in bunches something Houston doesnt do at that level and theyre not as deep. Itd be a fun game to see though.

You need VERY HIGH IQ players to play this style and they need to be very skilled as well as coachable. Imagine teaching these reads and reactions to players with no IQ or low IQ. You get my drift. Shoutout Hurley. Shoutout his pops- I went to a clinic ran by his pops back in the early 2000s. The gym was packed. His family is legendary in Jersey.

as some one who made their bones on the Defensive side of the ball lol i never been so pissed on YT lol just imagining trying to guard this forreal

yeah, and they have players who convert all that movement into points. in bball, one of the most deflating things is complex movement, and then still hitting shots, not necessarily layups either, at a high rate. the time playing defense wears the opponent down and they can never catch up. maybe like a good run game in football that translates to slow build up of points.

Beautiful Basketball

Great motion offense and all that cutting wears you out mentally. I saw instances when cutters were open and they still ran 2 more screens and cuts to get an easy basket. If they run into a hot team that shoots lights out ie around 60% UConn won’t be able to score enough points. It’s the only drawback. Secondly the big dance teams will be more physical and UConn will need significant bench production. They remind me of the old Princeton teams but more athletic.

Scored on the same play in the Natty

As someone from connecticut this makes me happy

They rode this offensive mastery to another national title. Crazy good execution from the Huskies to bring home back-to-back national titles. Lots of other coaches will try to replicate this now

this is a nightmare to defend

This is an absolute nightmare to defend. And on one days notice seems impossible to prepare for.

@SpritualTechniques

11 күн бұрын

With this amazing offense and surprises, the University of Connecticut did not go undefeated this entire year❤

Mom wake up, hoopvision uploaded.

I need the Warriors to get Alex Karaban, he can come off the bench and play Power forward next to Trayce Jackson Davis, next year’s starting lineup should be the same that Steve Kerr is currently using the Curry, Podziemski, Wiggins, Kuminga and Draymond starting 5 unit but the bench unit and if we decide to bring Cp3 back would be Cp3, Moody, Klay, Karaban and Trayce Jackson Davis! And we’ll still have Gp2 and Looney as well

Dan Hurley wins for Uconn and teaches players a ton, but the NBA isn’t ran like this sadly

I'm kinda surprised UConn has been so good this year. No championship hangover despite also losing some really good players

@allisonkallberg2669

2 ай бұрын

It's a result of last year's bench depth. Diarra, Newton and Clingan all had to wait for this year for their big breaks despite already being excellent players last season.

@MrBacchus18

2 ай бұрын

@@allisonkallberg2669 And some smart transfers like Spencer. I forget how much player movement happens every year.

Which defenses do you think could slow down uconn enough? MU has shown they can in the most recent game, and I think Houston is the only team who is fast enough to.

It has always frustrated me how modern offenses choose to space the weak side rather than occupy it with screening actions. BYU is a great example that does both.