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Illini Basketball 2022-2023
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Pivot to spread offense paying dividends for Illinois
Brad Underwood picked up the spread offense during his collegiate playing days. Now it's helping Illinois to a three-game Big Ten win streak.
ANDERSON KIMBALL
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Back in Brad Underwood’s playing days, one opponent stood out to him.
When his Kansas State team played a Johnny Orr-coached Iowa State team, the Cyclones' spread offense created a difficult matchup. Iowa State won all three of those meetings during Underwood’s two seasons at Kansas State, and so he jumped at the opportunity to run a variation of it when he became a coach.
"I've always felt as a player it was one of the hardest things to guard," Underwood said. "I just kind of took it. (Oregon coach) Dana Altman ran a version of it at Creighton. We do some things a little different, but a lot of the similarities and then it's something as soon as I became head coach I started with."
From what I’ve seen we’ve still been fairly vanilla with it. A counter here, a counter there. I think it speaks to the overall talent level of the team when you can be basic and still be effective.Pivot to spread offense paying dividends for Illinois
Brad Underwood picked up the spread offense during his collegiate playing days. Now it's helping Illinois to a three-game Big Ten win streak.www.stltoday.com
ANDERSON KIMBALL
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Back in Brad Underwood’s playing days, one opponent stood out to him.
When his Kansas State team played a Johnny Orr-coached Iowa State team, the Cyclones' spread offense created a difficult matchup. Iowa State won all three of those meetings during Underwood’s two seasons at Kansas State, and so he jumped at the opportunity to run a variation of it when he became a coach.
"I've always felt as a player it was one of the hardest things to guard," Underwood said. "I just kind of took it. (Oregon coach) Dana Altman ran a version of it at Creighton. We do some things a little different, but a lot of the similarities and then it's something as soon as I became head coach I started with."
It seems like we run it until the other team figures out how to guard it, then we go more to different sets.
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