Preface: This post is based solely off of last year and previous year's performances, and I'm making no references to this year's squad.
Jones, I have to say that the offense I come away most impressed with (at least in terms of its execution) is Michigan's. I admit that I don't see them play much other than when we play them, but when we do it always seems like their offense is a well oiled machine. The key seems to be how well their players move without the ball. The ball is always moving, they use screens, back door cuts, dribble drives and kick outs. They're just so efficient at getting the ball to the open man for the shot. It's very team oriented, assists are aplenty, and three point shots are high. I read the Beilein runs a Princeton style offense, which I guess surprised me a little, because I always thought of it as being a slow it down, half court, low scoring offense. But their offense seems to me to be pretty high octane (or at least it is when they play us )
Anyway, so with our offense, which is a motion oriented, dribble drive style offense, I'm sure is very team oriented too, but I don't know if it is our execution of it or what, but it seems to me that it ends up being a lot of one on one situations, and not an over abundance of kick outs or passes to open guys for the three. I know I'm simplifying things here, but perhaps you can share your thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of our dribble drive concept. Are there areas where you think our execution needs improvement, or are we running it pretty good, but we're just not making our shots? Are their any similarities to the Princeton style? Are there things we could be doing to get guys more open shots?