I agree that it seemed there was quite a bit of iso and the sets seemed to be less complex than what we saw in Pope's offense last year - but a couple of thoughts:

* Coming from the NBA, Kevin Young is used to dealing with high-level athletes who can make a play within an offensive system. He has recruited athletes who are more like that NBA profile, and will likely give them some freedom to do so. When Catchings signals to Demin from the baseline that he can get a step on his guy, and Demin throws it for a dunk from the top of the key - that's a "set." It's a play.

* While we are awed by Egor, the likelihood is that another player who really understands the KY offensive system and can get us into it and run it is sitting on the bench right now. Dallin Hall. We will look a bit different in running plays with Dallin on the floor.

* My read of Coach Young's offensive philosophy is that he values simplicity. Coach Pope ran a pretty complicated offense to some degree because he needed a powerful system to offset the powerful athletic advantage of the Big-12 teams they'd play most nights. Coach Young is recruiting to negate that athletic advantage. I don't mean that he can't run a complex offense, but he just values running sets that work and having guys make the right play.

* Over and over last night, you saw Egor and various players run effective pick and roll actions with involved shooters. In a high pick and roll, Egor can just read the defense, then pick one of several options. He can shoot from range himself if the defender sags off or goes under the pick, which he did and killed UCA on that with multiple three pointers. He can start a drive and pass to the rolling pick man for a bucket or dunk or someone coming in from the wing on a cut, which he did. He can start a drive and get all the way to the basket, which he did multiple times. He can see the floor and kick it to shooters on the wing for a three - Knell and Saunders and Catchings all have pretty high shooting percentages from three on the wing - did this multiple times. He can drive into the defense and then swing it to an open shooter on the baseline - most high percentage three there is. ALL of these were offensive sets. That is half a dozen actions you can run off of the same basic play design, we saw all of them, and there was a lot of effectiveness.

* This was just in Game One. We still have a lot of time to get experience together, gel, and become more efficient in our movement, familiarity among players, and execution of offensive principles. This will just get better.

That's my read on it. Pretty interesting, actually.