Why This Offense is Basketball Poetry

UConn runs some of the most complex offensive sets and actions in the country. This video breaks down the X's and O's, offensive concepts, and players behind Dan Hurley's offensive scheme.
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[@kendrickjenkins96]

Here IMMEDIATELY after the Dan Hurley to Lakers news 😂

[@MrQuizno99]

Lmaooo

[@jacoburanga218]

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]

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

[@mauricegibson599]

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

[@Christopher-dd1ph]

LOOOOOOL RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.

[@l.wilson3484]

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]

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

[@ThinkingBasketball]

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

[@schuylersavage276]

Wow, the GOAT watches this too heck yeaH

[@Frederick0220]

Great vid besides the guy butchering the pronunciation of "subsequent"

[@ayabellabhojwani24]

lakers fan here doing research because of coaching rumors lol

[@Frederick0220]

@@ayabellabhojwani24 lol there ya go

[@MrQuizno99]

@@ayabellabhojwani24lol facts just watched his appearance on JJs podcast lol

[@ScoochieBoochie]

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

[@gaff4798]

faacts

[@nastyyoda5673]

Austin Reaves fit in this system so well

[@bduval9253]

Stumbled across this in my post-championship KZbin 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.

[@ItsCioffi]

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

[@TheyCallMeBruce13]

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

[@colangelog09]

Very agree, go Huskies!

[@badmontad]

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]

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

[@brendancarr1186]

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]

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.

[@davidf2244]

Death By A Thousand Cuts

[@johncmoore416]

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.

[@hectorwatt9712]

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]

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

[@outlawrogers7101]

Dan Hurley made URI relevant during his stay there.

[@stefanerwin9441]

He's not a big time coach

[@bigtimetimmyjim6486]

@@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]

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

[@stevefisher8323]

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

[@davidroth6519]

Pure poetry. Offensive mad science at its best.

[@anthonycasale3510]

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.

[@LakeShowtime]

Watching this video after Dan Hurley rumors to coach the Lakers. This is really fun basketball offense.

[@sasquatchh_tv9536]

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.

[@mcfuckinanotheraccount808]

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.

[@RK11111111111]

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!

[@pavleveljkovic9756]

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.

[@johnwhitmore85]

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!

[@kendoglarson5419]

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

[@jeebs9]

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

[@PeteMartinMandolin]

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.

[@brianarbenz1329]

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.

[@user-wd4uf2sm5d]

Saving this in a folder for future reference! Thanks.

[@Jertie84]

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

[@ThreadAndCircuses1]

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

[@jasonmathestravel]

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

[@migsnaidas4107]

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

[@siphillis]

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

[@peterdrogos942]

Fantastic analysis and observation. Enlightening video. Thank you!

[@ericwilliams1023]

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!

[@derrickshelley4059]

Love this breakdown! Thank you!

[@BrassCityFilms]

This was 🔥. Great job

[@pikach336]

Was waiting for another video from you 😁

[@DarrylReina]

Thanks for sharing this UConn offense. Much appreciated!

[@omarribeck6232]

My eyes don’t know where to look 😂

[@johnbabano3497]

now imagine you on the court guarding them

[@haydenhawes8215]

Fantastic videos man

[@70bugs]

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]

Imagine guarding UConn lol.

[@Ajak1033]

@@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.

[@mikect05]

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

[@maxwellscott-bz8bf]

Tis how you get good teams.

[@IamWonderBread]

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.

[@seejae]

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

[@freakboy40]

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.

[@itsjustacomment454]

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

[@hiimpaul9614]

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]

@@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.

[@stevenjm12]

They ran this same set play during the championship game

[@jlomamba5663]

Already imagining how the Lakers will run these plays

[@Dolph96]

Ahhhhhhh gotta love it we needed this

[@ProfessionalsProfessional]

Great video. Beautiful basketball!

[@gregnice231]

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

[@faf8609]

Great Content!

[@pieterlamoen4916]

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

[@SpritualTechniques]

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

[@thomash864]

Very well done!!

[@yt_clazify]

That fall after the dunk looked scary asf

[@captainsnowboy7712]

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.

[@connorlaplante9318]

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

[@castafinance]

Need more of these videos!!!

[@MrQuizno99]

Great video, beautiful basketball

[@jasonmcwhirter7093]

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

[@camdencapps6894]

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

[@juwuanb32]

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

[@timothysnow5]

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

[@gabecox3548]

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

[@lukebradley7879]

Cooper Flagg didn’t want to play high IQ basketball

[@clayc5929]

The Flagg clan was never very bright

[@marcisikoff]

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.

[@Lover-ur4te]

This was beautiful.

[@learnlifetv7019]

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

[@thehobojarpen]

*Darvin Ham scrambling to take notes*

[@chidori5399]

I've been praying for the day the Lakers would run some motion on the weak side please make it happen Rob!

[@kenyattasmith2658]

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

[@lindsaymathews5127]

UCONN is amazing...totally off the charts!

[@thomasmcglaughlin1410]

Excellent breakdown!

[@bryanmatthews9591]

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

[@stevee.2183]

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

[@ndotv8733]

Beautiful

[@timmyireland1]

That offense looks like fun to play

[@darrin.jahnel]

Fantastic breakdwon

[@tonysu8860]

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]

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

[@gageslagle7342]

I love your videos

[@kristianpomida8259]

A lot of these are straight out of the spurs playbook

[@JohnSilva-hi6hx]

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.

[@ericsmith9835]

Great video!

[@orangelight4078]

here before lakers announce Hurley as HC

[@Tylerbadie852]

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

[@alfredoball-llovera8609]

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!

[@Wjshdkfofndndid]

This is gonna be clutch for the scouting report

[@jasonalba4004]

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

[@adishaked1897]

Man this video gives me hope again

[@zeejoo]

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

[@dantefazzina9037]

No disrespect, but Nova didn’t have the size or depth that UCONN had the past couple of seasons.

[@dantefazzina9037]

UCONN is at another level.

[@zacdeeds87]

this aged well

[@ericc6820]

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.

[@MrDLJ5]

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

[@tommydimopoulos6484]

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

[@mr.wilzaboi7698]

As someone from connecticut this makes me happy

[@willmorrisusa]

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 😵. 😂

[@sev131]

this is a nightmare to defend

[@joshuap9580]

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.

[@crls.1]

Another W video!!!!

[@ApolyonTheSoulRender]

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

[@ryu-ken]

The crazy thing is they don't even have any elite nba guys on the team

[@LordaeronTactics]

UConnnnn

[@danialhamzah]

HUSKIES!!!!