What style of offense does this guy run?
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Of the three teams in this piece, West Liberty is predictably the hardest one to describe. Why? They don?t really run set plays. Howlett prefers a freeform, naturally flowing motion offense that works so well it looks like a set play. ?We don?t have a lot of set plays, and in a perfect world, I would like to not call one set play in an entire game,? he mentions. It?s pretty hard to argue with Howlett?s philosophy when you run it as well as West Liberty does. The Hilltoppers, as a team, offered up a crazy 50/43/78 shooting split. Exactly one team in Division 1 even passed a lesser 50/40/75 split: South Dakota State.
So: how does West Liberty do it when they don?t have a ton of plays to pick from? They push the pace, early and often, and they?ve done it forever. West Liberty averaged 80 possessions per game last season, which (shocker!) would?ve been the fastest in Division 1. They get out in transition as much as they can, but it?s not a run-and-gun style of offense. Rather, as Howlett says, ?we?re a high-octane, potent offense where everybody?s able to do a little bit of everything.? Translation: we?re not Grinnell. When you get looks like this, the argument against pushing the pace folds quickly:
https://statsbywill.com/2019/06/19/building-a-better-basketball-offense-part-3-threes-perimeter-actions/2/
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