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Subject: Re: UConn men's offense, Princeton women's defense Author: IvySportsJunkie [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 13:34:17 04/11/24 Thu In reply to: An Observer 's message, "UConn men's offense, Princeton women's defense" on 13:00:59 04/11/24 Thu The Atlantic article titled “How UConn built the Most Complex and Efficient Offense in College Basketball” does a very good job of explaining this complex UConn offense. It points out how UConn Head Coach Dan Hurley and Assistant Coach Luke Murray carefully studied European teams, stealing different concepts and packages that they could use. Their offense’s goal is to put stress on the defense, stacking multiple actions that create indecision for the defense. Most set plays are choreographed. While the Huskies sometimes looked patterned, their offense is like a choose-your-own-adventure story. “If you make a decision to reject the screen, now that sets off a chain of events with two or three other off-ball scenarios,” Murray explains. “That’s something that we really work on hard, because good defensive teams a lot of times can do a good job at taking teams out of set plays. But I think the randomness of the way that we cut, the randomness of the way that we screen and the versatility of our guys as passers and movers and screeners and shooters really makes it hard.” “I’ve been studying the top offenses in the country in-depth for the past five years, and UConn’s combination of off-ball screening and ball movement within their sets and the number of sets that they run makes it the most complex offense that I’ve seen in that time,” says Jordan Sperber, a former video coordinator at New Mexico State, who has become the X’s-and-O’s czar of college basketball, documenting it all in his weekly Hoops Vision newsletter. Sperber made a UConn offense video last month titled “Why This Offense is Basketball Poetry.” [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: UConn men's offense, Princeton women's defense Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:58:49 04/11/24 Thu I just googled Luke Murray. He is Bill Murray's son. Yes, that Bill Murray. Luke went to St. Luke's School in New Canaan, where he played football and basketball. He has worked for Danny Hurley on three separate, non-continuous stints. Murray has been the "offensive coordinator" on the Huskies coaching staff for the past two national championship seasons. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]