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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4146955, member: 6696"] This is the same motion we run constantly and teams have learned to defend. Cole made that read on his own--not Hurley. This isn't "All a decoy"... it's a bunch of different looks that were covered in a motion offense. I see looks that could have been scoring ops for Polley, Jackson, Rese and Whaley if it was covered different. The initial cut could have been a post up if Polley passed to Whaley, Jackson had a back cut opportunity, Polley came off a screen from Rese and could've hit a 3. We got to the end of the motion offense and Cole read the defense for a back cut. This is simply a fantastic, high IQ play by a couple of seniors. The weave set is fine in small doses and with the right personnel. We just use it way too much as a crutch to kill clock instead of looking to score, and our players are looking for scoring options that aren't the first or second option very often. I wonder if we're just working through the motion in practice instead of isolating every single scoring opportunity and repping it out... a lot of coaches even at the highest levels don't take the time to do that and it shows. I've watched Purdue practice (for example) and they work through EVERY SINGLE scoring option when they practice a set... I haven't seen that from Hurley because we spend so much time on defense. When you run a motion with a bunch of looks like this, players need to be trained to look for all available scoring options... seems like we run through the motion and just go for a Cole/Sanogo iso way too often. [/QUOTE]

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