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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WVUALLEN" data-source="post: 130689349" data-attributes="member: 1112294">Motion offense is built on trust. Players run and sweat without the ball to create space and opportunities for teammates. They give up the ball expecting to get it back if they have an open shot.Big men are expected to move away from the basket to set screens. Passes are generally preferred to dribbling.Motion offense is built on knowledge. There are no set plays. Players must read defenses, anticipate where teammates will be and understand concepts.(Our guards have no idea how to read a defense nor anticipate teammates)Basketball is more and more becoming a game of isolation, a ball-handler trying to beat his man off the dribble. Increasingly a player who begins a possession with the ball finishes the possession with a shot. Less ball movement dampens the motivation for a player to move without the ball, as he is less likely to have the ball returned.With a motion offense, a team is not dependent upon one player. You can dictate tempo with it. You can grind another team by making them defend multiple actions. The players also have much to gain from learning the motion offenseThe NBA hasn’t helped breed a concept of team play. The pro game is all about one-and-done and isolation offenses. John Beilein runs a motion offense. While it mimics the Princeton offense it varies in certain way. The 2-guard motion offense that Beilein runs is based off of a few things. First, the set starts in a 2-3, hence the name 2-guard motion. The basic motion set out of the 2-guard is based on v-cuts on the wings and a variety of back screens, flares and reading the defense. The key for the 2-guard motion is the ability to bring everyone away from the basket and having a versatile big guy who can step out and either be a threat to score or pass from the high post area.Huggins has thrown in a mix where he’ll have a double screen for his ‘five’ guy to run off to the low  post on. There is a combo of the Princeton offense + dribble drive with this open post motion. The goal is to leave the floor spaced so you can beat you’re guy off the dribble and there’s either late help from the weak side of people cheating so far over you have a clean look from three. At the same time Huggins has shown he’ll run the flex out of this set. He’ll mix up what he wants depending on his lineup and the open post motion just keeps defenses guessing. We so far have nobody at guard that can do this. There are more teams in college that run it than you think.</blockquote>

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