But what impressed me about UCF is that they totally shut down passing lanes and completely devoured any pass that was less than crisp. ....... but because the UCF team did not allow a lot of good looks and they close the window on players who flash open very quickly..
It's called an over play by the D, the way you beat that is a fake coming to the ball and then a quick back door cut. ( i.e., see the Princeton offense concept)
That will keep the defense more honest right away. But the coach and his team have to be prepared for this... which they weren't. And you have to be able to make wide open lay-ups, SMH....but most of these girls looked like they were gonna piss their pants when they got one, LOL !
P.S. I saw the Uconn men fail doing the same thing when their offense looked like trash alot of times, when they were overplayed by D.... Pickin' up their dribble 25 feet from the hoop (BB cardinal sin 101) then hoping some cutter would run a loop, sometimes all the way to almost the baseline, through couple of useless screens, that still didn't get them open. While the guy who picked up his dribble or can't dribble like a big is now trapped/ doubled so far from him, he's lucky to even get the ball back to a ball handler before the shot clock runs down....It's an insane offensive concept when you don't have guys who can beat their man off the dribble or while a big like Whaley or Sanogo is standing near halfcourt hoping for a guard to get back to him after he circles the entire court.
Just watch Uconn's offense sets when Calhoun coached winner after winner and were prepared for post season ball . Ball is always in the QB/PG's hands with high/low & curl screens. With the bigs down low where they can do damage. Not this clueless offense DH's running thinking he has 5 guys who can dribble and create in positionless BB like Golden State. You have to design your offense based on your personnel, not have them uselessly running around in circles on O, tiring your own team out ( while you want them to kill it on the D end too).
Here's a time when the PG didn't do his job with the ball in his hands (Lamb got open on the curl screen from Roscoe) , but JC was sure to nip it in the bud, ASAP