Coach Cal became a fan of the Dribble Drive Motion offense a few years ago and is now one of its biggest advocates. I remembered this article from SI last year and thought it would be good for fans of offensive strategies.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/grant_wahl/02/12/memphis0218/

He's bringing the offense Kentucky fans love and one similar to what Ricky P was giving us. Lot of taking it to the rack, kicking it for the three ball and then some monster oop dunks. I know this is an offensive thread but he'll also throw in some killer D....all I can say is get your thre signs back out because its getting ready to be on, Hoods already spottin up and you know Meeks is too. Verdicts still out on the others, but may be a few more shooters in the bag of tricks.

How effective will Porter be with this offense Any offense with Derrick Rose or Tyreke Evans will be good, hopefully the next wave will be with WAll.

Porter will most likely not be back next year for the Cats. If he does come back, I think you might see him switching to an academic scholarship which would then free up an athletic scholarship for one of Calipari's transfers/recruits coming in.

I was curious if we would ever have an offense like that scored more than 60 points a game again...

Memphis played great defense too!

Thanks for the link by the way Clyde. Will be interesting to see if it trickles down into the high schools here like Mumme's Air Raid did.

Thanks for the link by the way Clyde. Will be interesting to see if it trickles down into the high schools here like Mumme's Air Raid did.

 

It has trickled down. In the SI article it had a map of the colleges and HS teams that were using it.

This is PG driven offense which needs to have a PG that can penetrate.

I actually read this article last year and started researching. We used it for AAU all summer, kids really like it because of the free lancing aloud. Gives kids chances to "play basketball" and not just run plays. One of the reasons my opinion on Coach Cal changed last year.

Coach Cal became a fan of the Dribble Drive Motion offense a few years ago and is now one of its biggest advocates. I remembered this article from SI last year and thought it would be good for fans of offensive strategies.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/grant_wahl/02/12/memphis0218/

Listen to GT's podcast from yesterday. He does a great job of explaining the offense.

Listen to GT's podcast from yesterday. He does a great job of explaining the offense.

 

Don't know if it breaks the rules or not but could you link GT's podcast? If you can't post it on the board maybe a PM? Thanks.

In fairness to BCG, the offense has been pretty efficient (I believe they led the conference in FG%), but taking care of the ball is another story.

By appearence it looks a lot like street ball, not that it exactly is, but thats how it appears somewhat heltersketler and dependant on great talent.

Figured you guys would like a deep look at what style off offense you are getting from a year old SI article. It's long but very informative...

 

 

And so, using a pepper shaker as the basket, white sugar packets as offensive players and pink Sweet'n Low packets as defenders, Walberg explained his quirky creation, a high-scoring scheme featuring four perimeter players and a host of innovations. Unlike Knight's classic motion offense (which is based on screens) or Pete Carril's Princeton-style offense (which is based on cuts), Walberg's attack was founded on dribble penetration. To Calipari, at least, it embodied two wholly unconventional notions. One, there were no screens, the better to create spacing for drives. Two, the post man ran to the weak side of the lane (instead of the ball side), leaving the ball handler an open driving path to the basket.

 

But there was plenty more. As Walberg pushed the packets through the phases of his offense, Calipari experienced a new kind of sugar rush. Walberg's scheme was madness. It was genius.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/grant_wahl/02/12/memphis0218/