Steve Alford UCLA Bruins Single Screen Action Set Play by Dana Beszczynski

Written by Dana Beszczynski

Coach Beszczynski brings over twenty years of basketball coaching experience to Men’s Basketball HoopScoop. To date, he has worked at all levels of basketball, from High School and from the Collegiate Ranks to the Professional level in Europe. As a leader, Coach Beszczynski emphasizes that his program is built on the principles of hard work, dedication, and no one person is more important than the team. Coach Beszczynski has a very diverse coaching background. He is known for his individual development of post players, scouting & film breakdown, motivation, and game preparation. At the present time, Coach Beszczynski is the 2nd Asst to the 1st team & U19 Head Coach.

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December 10, 2015

Steve Alford UCLA Bruins Single Screen Action Set Play by Dana Beszczynski

Steve Alford enters his third season as UCLA’s head coach in 2015-16. In two seasons at UCLA, Alford has guided the Bruins to a 50-23 record and back-to-back NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearances. He begins his 25th year as a college head coach in 2015-16.

The UCLA Bruins just knocked off the #1 Team in the rankings last week the Kentucky Wildcats and here is a play they used from that game. With the coaches son Bryce Alford’s shooting ability, the Bruins like to run him off this single screen action to get a look at the three. Alford can read the defense and either flare, curl, or pop.

Steve Alford gave his squad a talk before the game. He told them if we are going to pla this game then play it. If you want me to cancel, I’ll cancel it. But if you want to play it then we have to come to fight.

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Last Week, The Steve Alford UCLA Bruins did much more than that. They upset a No. 1 team for the first time since 2003 — and in a comprehensive, occasionally dominant 87-77 performance.

The UCLA Bruins Big men outworked Kentucky’s big men in a rout to 21 points and 11 rebounds. Tony Parker was too strong around the rim. UCLA got contributions from everywhere, and it executed Steve Alford’s game plan — to pack in zone and man-to-man defense, ask Kentucky to make perimeter shots, and work hard enough around the rim to not yield easy second chances and lobs — to utter perfection.

Somehow, the Steve Alford UCLA Bruins made taking down the John Calipari Kentucky Wildcats look easy.

John Calipari was quoted as saying: “I want everybody to understand: I got outcoached, we got outplayed,”. “Their execution, their hustle, their toughness, there was not one area that they didn’t beat us in.”

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