Georgetown offense=West Coast offense

[OldHoyafan]

During the Cincinnatti game announcer Wenzel remarked that in the Georgetown offense, all the players are like a quarterback in football going through his reads each time he touches the ball. thats exactly what made the West Coast offense so effective in football. The quarterback and receivers would read what the defense was giving up, then take what was being given up. After watching the Duke and UC games again, it is beautiful to watch the man with the ball and the cutters all making the same reads, which leads to a layup or wide open shot. Of course the players have to hit those wide open shots, but it is pretty to watch when they do. After the initial success of the West Coast offense, teams started defensing it by being physical with the receivers off the line, before they could make any cuts. I went back and watched the Illinois game and saw the Illinois defenders doing the same thing to the Hoyas. They were physical and bumped the Hoyas off their initial cuts in the first half. The Hoyas got a little intimidated and stopped making the sharp cuts to the basket and had a bad first half.
They did a better job with the cuts in 2nd half therefore were able to come back.

[Eurostar]

Great insight.. hopefully opposing coaches dont read this board. Though, overplaying us at "the line" could leave defenders out of position when the guy does cut through, leading to an open pass (all day against Duke). I think our offense has come a long way even since the Illinois game. That being said, I think strong pressure on the ball is what made Illinois successful against us. The ballhandler didnt have time to make the reads, he was too busy trying to get away from his man.

[RockawayHoya]

I think the major problem in the Illinois game was that we started the game timid offensively. We haven't done that since the first half of the Colgate game, and I think that just reflects our players' increasing maturity and growing confidence in themselves and the system.

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

If this is the West Coast offense and that makes JTIII Bill Walsh and Jeff Green Joe Montana - and every cutter Jerry Rice - then I'm cool with it.