Hurley's offense just doesn't put players in positions to utilize their strengths and make plays. I don't know how they don't see this when they watch hours of game fill trying to figure out what went wrong. I think it's pretty obvious.
His horns set and weave set they run need to go ASAP
It might have worked earlier in the season some what, but once teams have a chance to scout you it just wont work anymore against league opponents. It's easy for any team to guard since the spacing is so poor and there is no room to operate
This is contributing to Carlton's poor play since both sets have him catching the ball 25ft from the basket.
Him and Whaley both have no business catching the ball out past the 3pt line since neither player can hurt you from there and it's taking away from Carlton's strength which is catching the ball under the basket.
What is the point of giving them the ball there, since the guards are not cutting backdoor off it, there is no other purposeful movement off the ball, and it just clogs up the middle of the floor?
Now the guards have to fight to get the ball back from the big and often are forced to catch the ball back near half court. Most of the time with the shot clock winding down they are forced to take a long contested shot or because the spacing is so poor with both bigs still at the foul line they have to try to split a double team in effort to make something happen leading to bad shots or turnovers.
This gets me to why Gilbert and Vital are playing poorly
With both of these offensive sets there is often three Uconn players withing 10 feet of each other leaving no room to operate and the other two are just standing around and as a result both players are taking long contested shots or driving out of control to the basket trying to make a play with the shot clock winding down leading to their turnovers and poor shooting percentages.
If there is better spacing and the guards have room to create, there is not many players in the country who can stay in front of Gilbert and now he can get back to his strengths which is getting into the paint and drawing defenders and dishing to the open man or taking open foul line jumpers. (If he would stop over penetrating)
Now with defenses have to help and rotate it's much easier for Vital, Polly, and Carlton, and who ever else is on the floor to get better looks. Bouknight and Adams will both excel because they both can shoot and attack the basket.
Once they start getting some better looks, shots should start falling, and they will get some confidence back which is something they desperately need since it almost looks like the players have no confidence in what they are doing on the offensive end right now.
Seriously, at this point I would be happy just to see some basic motion we all learned in middle school basketball
The simple - screen down, screen away
Using the simple motion principles like reading defender-curling if he's trailing, popping to the corner if he goes under, backdoor cuts if he tries to cheat.
There is a million different quick hitters you can run out of this set
I'm not the coach, that's just my two cents
His horns set and weave set they run need to go ASAP
It might have worked earlier in the season some what, but once teams have a chance to scout you it just wont work anymore against league opponents. It's easy for any team to guard since the spacing is so poor and there is no room to operate
This is contributing to Carlton's poor play since both sets have him catching the ball 25ft from the basket.
Him and Whaley both have no business catching the ball out past the 3pt line since neither player can hurt you from there and it's taking away from Carlton's strength which is catching the ball under the basket.
What is the point of giving them the ball there, since the guards are not cutting backdoor off it, there is no other purposeful movement off the ball, and it just clogs up the middle of the floor?
Now the guards have to fight to get the ball back from the big and often are forced to catch the ball back near half court. Most of the time with the shot clock winding down they are forced to take a long contested shot or because the spacing is so poor with both bigs still at the foul line they have to try to split a double team in effort to make something happen leading to bad shots or turnovers.
This gets me to why Gilbert and Vital are playing poorly
With both of these offensive sets there is often three Uconn players withing 10 feet of each other leaving no room to operate and the other two are just standing around and as a result both players are taking long contested shots or driving out of control to the basket trying to make a play with the shot clock winding down leading to their turnovers and poor shooting percentages.
If there is better spacing and the guards have room to create, there is not many players in the country who can stay in front of Gilbert and now he can get back to his strengths which is getting into the paint and drawing defenders and dishing to the open man or taking open foul line jumpers. (If he would stop over penetrating)
Now with defenses have to help and rotate it's much easier for Vital, Polly, and Carlton, and who ever else is on the floor to get better looks. Bouknight and Adams will both excel because they both can shoot and attack the basket.
Once they start getting some better looks, shots should start falling, and they will get some confidence back which is something they desperately need since it almost looks like the players have no confidence in what they are doing on the offensive end right now.
Seriously, at this point I would be happy just to see some basic motion we all learned in middle school basketball
The simple - screen down, screen away
Using the simple motion principles like reading defender-curling if he's trailing, popping to the corner if he goes under, backdoor cuts if he tries to cheat.
There is a million different quick hitters you can run out of this set
I'm not the coach, that's just my two cents