The Team That Doesn't Dribble 

Probably have a one on one with coach before they enter the program...they know what the deal is

@@a-t5380 More importantly, they have one on one with the current players. That allows both the recruit and the players to provide input about how the recruit might fit in.

yeah but i think it will hurt them if they tryna go to the league tho. this style of play allows no one to shine except the coach.

@@rjnsg2953 then the player can go play for another team

@@rjnsg2953 there's 100s of college programs, most college athletes know they aren't going pro

This playstyle is actually very similar to Guardiola's on football

Never thought I would see pep mentioned in a college basketball video

The fastest player on the team? The ball. So cool.

@@AntonyTheFidgetSpinnerMerchant Walai! Never thought so!.

My first thought was, this is a basketball version of tiki taka.

This... This is what all the other comments are missing. Most teams are looking for the the absolutely most talented players they can recruit... the biggest, the quickest, the best shooters and rebounders. Obviously the majors are going to attract the best talent, and they can afford play traditional basketball using their extreme (and deep) talent pool. The smaller schools have to find a way to be different if they want to win consistently. My first two years of college basketball was with a JUCO with all white guys. As you can imagine, the vast majority were slow. Our superpower was shooting, but how do you ever get a shot off when your defenders are so much quicker? Screen, after screen, after screen. That was how we played. Probably not as intensely or as disciplined as Bellarmine, but we made it work with a bunch of unathletic, slow, shooters. It worked for us, too. We went 25-7 on the season and 13-1 at home. We either pounded them inside with our bigs or punished them with excessive 3-point shooting. But multiple screens are where it all started.

that’s a great point Julian. I didn’t think about that.

Thats the same basic principal behind moneyball. When the Oakland A’s were a small market team trying to compete with big spenders like the New York Yankees, they emphasized different skills (namely, on base percentage) and saw value in players that other teams passed up, because those other teams weren’t looking at the right qualities.

It’s kind of like football teams that run the Wing T or Flexbone. Pro style offenses only work if you have big and offensive lineman and have a qb that can make throws. Wing T uses angles and misdirection to make a less talented offensive line more competitive.

​@IQFSanAntonio Thank you for that comment. Love hearing abt your basketball experience lol

This won't work in the NBA

@@blowc1612 you build the right team i think it could. a lot of teams play hero ball and as great as some players are it makes the game predictable in some stretches where in this offense you’re in constant conflict instead of knowing who’s going to have the ball/taking the shot

haha golden state plays like this

@bLoWc16 It won't work at D1, either. Oh, wait.

@@timandmonica you do understand that's still college..the NBA has ELITE college level talent AS BENCH WARMERS 🤣 this doesn't work in the NBA because I higher BIQ players that can anticipate the pass and are quicker to be able to disrupt the passing lane. There's a reason why you don't see this ridiculous amount of passing, since it would be a TO. In the NBA excessive passing LEADS TO TO.

You kum yet

@@talianun3259 3 times so far!

This reminds me of the Classic Celtics and Lakers in the 1970s.

Which is why Ben Simmons isn't thriving in Philly, this style of ball is what's mainly played overseas and players faults are hidden from value Isaiah Thomas would benefit from this too.

This is dumb

Looks boring asf

@@Avogadros_number I can admit it’s not show stopping, but it’s effective as hell. It’s the same idea as the early 00’s Spurs, boring to watch but consistent title contenders.

@@coolblack1 bellarmine is literally garbage so idk how u call it effective

@@Avogadros_number actually not,this system is pretty much the same with how 14 spurs system and current GSW and heat plays but its not perfect More passing mean more turnover especially against good defense. This strategy is possible because the defender at this level dont have the length and instinct to distrupt the passing lanes. Imagine playing this type of games against jimmy,kawhi,giannis or the entire raptors team that can distrupt the passing lane without leaving their marked man Also this level of communication isnt possible without perfect chemistry of the entire team and the only 2 team to pull of this kind of play to championship is just GSW and spurs

@@bigman8477 It was good enough to move them from a D2 to a D1 team and they finished second in their conference last year.

What rules kept them out?

There’s a D2 to D1 transition period of 4 years. Happened when my school made that leap a while ago

@@calebderavil7464 that seems backwards. If anything they’re already at a disadvantage

@@morganewing304 it’s really is, considering that for 4 years the players they recruit know they won’t be able to make the NCAA tournament. Bellarmine has petitioned to the NCAA to reduce the probation period from 4 years to 2, which is a step in the right direction. The only reason that rule has been in place is to discourage D2 teams from making the transition to D1 too soon, so I don’t think it’ll be phased out entirely anytime soon

Who told you that?

Exactly! Same thing I always think about Mugsy Boges. Every team should have 1 player under 5'7" just to throw him in and disrupt plays. Crazy that nobody has done it since. When you have every player used to playing guys 6'4 and up having a wild card like that would completely change the game.

effective*

Old heads smiling in their seats right now👴🏾

Not ironic, it makes perfect sense. It’s all about exploiting the opponents weakness and that weakness just happens to be defense. This system eats the clock so it gives your opponent less time to play offense. Pretty simple.

@@ispartacus1337 As if players like Mugsy Boges are a dime a dozen lol that dude was exceptional for his height. That's like saying "why don't teams just find guys that can do Kareem's hook shot?" ... Earl Boykins was barely taller than Boges and had a long NBA career in the modern era, but these guys are extremely rare.

Okay. But does this system work (with the right players, assuming) ? I mean, compared to the Duke, Kentucky, Gonzaga schemes? We know that most of the top College football teams, follow the Nick Saban "sytle" of "pro style, RPO" scheme. I just wondered if this style of play is successful at the top levels of college.

Good Question, High Level I.Q., Athleticism, and overall talent would only make this system harder to guard.

Not sure what you are talking about Larry was ball dominating player and often dripping

@@Averagegamer2023 you really never watched bird play just his scoring highlights

@@chikushodiz91 let him think what he wants 😂😂

They'd rather force and airball contested layups and finish games with a 40-30 score, then complain that they don't get paid as much as men.

isnt D1 highest level college basket ball (im a hockey guy)

@@bipity-bob it is. By higher level I meant elite teams like Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, UCLA, etc.

Look up Netball, which is its own sport. Mostly women though, kind of like softball is to baseball. I don't now why the WNBA even exists.

​@@poppinc8145 😂😂😂 only the US considers softball a woman's sport. Secondly, no one considers netball as basketball for women.

That's pretty cool, you guys took a page from the greats. the reason a lot of HOF players had to change up their game as their athleticism started to decline

you're lying I saw you and ur granny at the YMCA getting canned

@@MrGoddlie came outta nowhere 💀💀

I used to run and screen and cut and run and screen and cut ... it is a young person's style. As you grow older you can do it, only with "the same group of guys" because you know exactly where each of you will move towards (the word running is not usually associated with what we do past some age ahaha)

Damn bruh I wish I was like you. It would be a honour to play with my peers for 20 years.

Spitting

That’s what analytics are at the end of the day are used for, maximizing the skill set of your players

They aint gonna win shit tho, same as Athletics. Just more useless analytic bullshit, looks good but is total crap as the end product.

@@13floss Did you miss the bit at the start of the video where it showed how they've been winning more since this coach started? This works. Does it work as well as being a big-time program with gigantic resources and the most talented players in the country? Of course not but he is maximising the quality of players he has which is the very definition of good coaching.

@@kgill99 I’ll say this: my university just played Bellarmine tonight and I was at the game. They were the most active opponent Jacksonville State had faced all year and kept them on their P’s and Q’s. It was amazing watching the cuts and passes, the SID department I work for were joking about count dribbles in the game. We got the win but it was close, and there was almost a fight after the game. Can’t wait to play them again!

Yea, I had to deal with that in high school and it INFURIATED me. People, players, and even coaches, frankly don't realize how much more fun and effective it is to move the ball quickly down the court and find the quickest way to score. It's way quicker to score when you move the ball quick and dribble as little as needed.

Agreed.

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Man, can't imagine if this style use in NBA now. Rather than giving to star player and ISO.

Boring trash play.

That and people get sloppy on defense with more and more passes. Off ball movement is a hidden gem in winning championships and if everyone is moving while the ball is moved to everyone, no defender can slack but they also can’t watch the ball while watching their man. I would hate to play against that style of basketball

@@eli6797 yeah I love to play defense and it makes it so much easier when people dribble and screen cause it mkaes it a lot easier to match up with the player. As soon as heavy passing starts it gets a lot more difficult because just like in sports like soccer it makes it easier for someone to lose a player as it increases off the ball movement

agree mrs mccarthy

How do you feel about having more homosexuals. In college basketball? You support anal stretching before games.

And if you're working hard to track your matchup, but your teammate loses their's, I'm sure that can feel frustrating

@TheMrCaptainStfu but it’s more confusing on the defensive, I’m pretty sure the offense knows the plays like the back of their hand to pull it off that well, making it like muscle memory eventually to where your just running to your individual spot like a dance team, so no one person is doing to much or has to think too hard, while the defense is on a wild goose chase looking for the ball

@TheMrCaptainStfu yeah but this team is obviously built for cardio. Just like West Virginia with the full court press. Other teams usually can't keep up

@TheMrCaptainStfu they used to beat good teams

@TheMrCaptainStfu it’s take more of a toll to be reactionary rather than knowing what’s coming. Think about it like a high paced football offense. The defense is always more gassed than the offense

@TheMrCaptainStfu they do have an edge because they know what play they’re running and the defense doesn’t 😂. It takes more of a toll mentally and physically to play defense

Awesome content, you should make a video on them

Yes better than urs

This information COULD quite LITERALLY BREAK the NBA

@@ifheavenwashuman ur under 18 dont talk to me little baby

This guy is you with a 40 inch vertical.

@Honest Fan did you expect a transitioning D-2 school to be elite ?

@@MrPreds10 no but bro said they’re playing well, which obviously they are not compared to the competition

@@MrPreds10 also keep in mind, they’re 3-6 currently, and two of their wins are off D3 schools

@@kookthekid8338 They were great before this season. 2 years of very smooth transition to D1.

@@kookthekid8338 keep in mind their losses are to teams that are staples of the tournament. #1 Gonzaga, #2 UCLA , #7 Purdue , Murray State, West Virginia, and Saint Mary’s. That’s a tough non conference schedule.

Anyone with hands will snatch a pass. M2M litterally destroys this strat. Regardless of what they say, the players are still cutting, theyre just not screening. Its litterally like white kids never learned how to dribble, but they all own hoops. If they had half the team swinging and the other half screening and cutting they would be a menacing team, because they lack ego, and hold awareness.

But did you have the gays on your team.

@@davidcook680 What does that have to do with anything?

@@MichaelPiz he must really have something against gays perhaps he’s religious

this is not a fun way to play. its a dumb way to play

@@TheHubeef To each his own, I guess. If you think it's fun to play with guys who just ball hog and then cast from 25 ft all game because they all think they're Kobe, then OK, whatever. But if you like to win as a team, it's fun to move the ball around and get the open shot while the dudes on defense are getting gassed running around trying to keep up. Everyone gets touches, everyone scores. It's all good.

In 1986, College NCAA I was starting varsity as a freshman for a Nationally ranked team, coming from NJ 2 Time All Star Ledger 1st Team All Everything, which is BIG SHIT in NJ. Played for a nationally ranked team in high school and college. This Coach WOULD NOT ALLOW A PLAYER TO JUMP OFF ONE FOOT for a lay up. IT SUCKED PLAYING THAT WAY. My basketball resume is BIG! I play like Kyrie Irving and Dr J with a Devin Booker Steph Curry shot and game IQ. I transferred away from the non lay up coach and had a blast again jumping off my left and / or right foot to slam and jam and pass and play. You can play on THAT only passing team and pretend you are a real player when you are not really. Take one dribble to your left or right after a good ball fake and shoot vs ONLY passing you dumby ;) I had another coach that refused to talk, communicate, or make eye contact with any referee. To make a long story, short, we went 25 and 4 and would have won the Group 4 states if our coach had half a brain. You can play pass only and I will be having more fun, playing better, and WINNING! No NBA team has ever even done that for even one possession. GIVE IT UP you basketball non players on pretending that passing is not a thing.

@@Worm537 "I play like Kyrie Irving and Dr J with a Devin Booker Steph Curry shot and game IQ" 🤣🤣🤣

I've been to one NBA game in the past 5 years and 40% of the game was people faking a foul and taking free throws. Not sure why anyone watches it anymore.

Oh, teams thought that when our coach yelled a number out that it was the play we were running, but it was how many passes we needed to make before shooting. If we shot before then, we came out of the game, even if it were wide open.

This more like the offense that Wooden used at UCLA during its dominance.

You still need some size though cause well the basket is 10 feet in the air.

??? Some of these are run through the 5 and others the guards

Try!

That’s awesome!

I appreciate your insight, that's fascinating

I am guessing you just need tall players then.

I used to do no dribbling In parts of scrimmages in practice with my team all the time

It seems like an offensive system that if they start falling behind they have a tought time coming back.

Yeah, I’m not surprised at the turnovers. All that passing increases the chances that one would be loose.

Great point

Not really. Running a better system that is superior you always get an advantage. The more talented the players running the superior system the more you win by.

@@johntallanger4036 Change "Not rely" to "To add to your point"

@@Marclouispierre No. "Not really" is correct. If you're viewing running this kind of offense as a talent mitigation strategy then the point has been missed.

@@johntallanger4036 ✅ I read that wrong.

we see so much iso scoring these days old style looks nice to watch now. maybe people will appreciate wilt/bill/west/baylor etc after all lol.

@@triptychlux the reason we see so much is because people tryna go to the league play like this wont get u there.

@@rjnsg2953 it works at college level it doesn't need to be applied in nba imo

@@triptychlux I think what RSG is saying is that NBA hopeful college players wouldn’t want to play in this system because they can’t showcase themselves in this type of offense.

Not to mention stamina.

I’d say the main reason is that nba rotations don’t run nearly as deep and the gap between a superstar and a role player is bigger than in college. Schemes like this wouldn’t allow your star to create offense for others

Having adult profrssionald play 70+ games makes a lot of strategies hard.

@@Rohan_Mehtain many cases I agree. But imagine joker running point from the foul line on those actions.

because its too risky for high major program coaches or nba coaches because if they have one bad season doing this you get canned immediately.

It’s only because NBA guys won’t buy into being unselfish at all times. You can barely get 90% to contest a layup let alone pass up the first open 30 footer they see

This is how we taught to play basketball in Europe in the early/mid 2000s. Constant rotation and screens + 1 dribble layups/shots, very little driving.

Reminds me of Netball too with less bounce passes

@@j0kersmoker i know drills like this system, but also the game at least in germany was different to this in the early and mid '2000s' on the amateur level i know and especially on the pro level. I would have say it was a lot more pick and roll/pop + and i different to today postup but not from the guards like here. i guess mids 00 rattelsdorf, crailsheim and göttingen made noises implementing the guard terror scheme which also plays with very small lineups but a totally different offensiv approach (very fast shots) and lots of press defence ... Not so common, but very new and good results for the 'money'. Göttingen even made it to the bbl and etablished then there.

in Europe players are able to stand in 3 second box as much as they want, so many of those cuts would be close with zone defence, so this won't be that easy in Europe to do this

@@vykintaspliavga5187 It would still work perfectly fine against a zone with a few adjustments: more 3pts, more mid-range open shots, less open layups

FAX

LMAO

is it working

@@victor-nk9eh play wise, the scissors concept is, I just have to tinker with the tendencies

Good luck trying this with random players.

I'd love to see some "scissor action" as well

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Kerr's GSW style includes plenty of ball screens.

@@ciamciaramcia99 The Warriors run more ball screens than Bellarmine but compared to the rest of the NBA they are on the lower end. They also run more off ball screens than Bellarmine does though just based off these clips.

I don't think Steve Kerr has to watch this video to know about the option to play this way lmfaoo

I remember him he was a killer bro. I’m a Louisville fan lol

Troutman?! Loved that guy!

L1C4!

What's even better, how Louisville is the 4th-5th best team in the state

Sounds like Guardiolas Barca

@Goodie yeah it’s definitely some fun looking bask; but honestly golden state offense is very similar!

To be honest, how they work to get the open passes it is also exhausting for the offense ... One thing i like to check out after the video is, if they utilise there bench more then the opponents. n germany there where a few small ball teams, with lots of press defence which did quite well for some time (and they had to use there bench more then the normal team through this tactical approach)

@@christiang5209 So true. With so many cuts and movement off the ball, you exhaust yourself on offense. Whereas with isolation or pick&roll, only 1 or 2 players are spending energy on the offense while the others can rest a bit.

Boring? I find it fun as hell to watch. So much movement.

Walvini

@@ghmongo same

Pasta man

Warriors kinda do the same thing

yeah true it's hard for defenses to keep up with everyone constantly moving and the move flying around the court

Yeah but they switch it up. They don’t do this every single possession

@@Avogadros_number true. Steph dribbles a ton sometimes and uses draymond pick and roll as well. I just mentioned this because I think this type of system is viable at all levels of basketball.

mostly reminds me of some Triangle offense concepts and i see tons of the 2013-2017 Spurs in the other action.

@@reginaldwilliams3681 The Spurs used something similar to beat the Heat in the Finals the last time they won the Title. There are lots of youtube vids showing off all the passing and how it wore down the Heat players. Beautiful basketball