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\u201cThe Golden State Warriors call the play Cyclone because they stole it from the Iowa State Cyclones, who called it Cougar because they stole it from the BYU Cougars, who called it Dribble High because they stole it from Utah State. It was called Dribble at Utah State because that\u2019s what it was called at Colorado State and Montana, and the guy who called it Dribble would know its name better than anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
On January 18, Ben Cohen of the The Wall Street Journal published an excellent article on \u201cThe Secret History of the Golden State Warriors\u2019 Unstoppable Play\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n The focus of the article traces one of the Warriors\u2019 most successful plays all the way back to its origins at the University of Montana. Kerr and the Warriors stole it from Hoiberg when he was at Iowa State. Hoiberg stole it from Dave Rose at BYU in 2012. Dave Rose<\/a> stole it from Dave Rice who learned it at Utah State from the master himself, Stu Morrill, who drew up the play on a coach\u2019s whiteboard in the Montana Men\u2019s Basketball coaching office more than 30 years ago.<\/p>\n It goes by many names, \u201cCyclone,\u201d \u201cCougar,\u201d \u201cAggie,\u201d \u201cRip,\u201d \u201cDribble,\u201d and by many others. But no matter what it is called, almost everyone runs one form or another of the play. It is no secret that coaches steal plays from one another. Some just take plays. Others steal and slightly change them to make them their own. This just might be the most stolen play of them all.<\/p>\n Stew Morrill retired in 2015 from Utah State after racking up 600 wins at three different schools. He had a reputation of being an X’s and O’s guru. Fred Hoiberg was a huge fan of Coach Morrill’s stuff. Coach Hoiberg recalled several times that he knew Coach Morrill was up in his office late, eating pizza and drinking some beer, and diagramming plays.<\/p>\n In 1986, one of those late night drawings became \u201cDribble\u201d. It is a simple play. There is nothing complicated about it. You don\u2019t need elite talent for it to work. While the play is relatively simple and everyone runs it, not many guards it effectively.<\/p>\n