Re: I've had a major metamorphosis in my beliefs about NBA offenses
There is no question this was the desired result. The ability to play a zone or a defense with zone tendencies, re: help side defenses, almost necessitates ball movement and player movement away from the ball.
You attack that kind of a defense by moving it, by stretching it from side to side, attacking its gaps to contract it. The other way you beat it is to beat it down the floor with early offense. Teams who can play this way will run for a quick, quality shot. If they can't you will likely see them exhaust the shot clock for something called.
The NBA game brought the shot clock to the college game, but the college coaches and international coaches taught the NBA coaches how to attack it. Early offense, offense in the middle of the shot clock, then a go to play or player for the end.
This isn't to say features such as two-man games and three-man games still don't or can't fluidly exist. You'll notice that NBA teams OFTEN ball screen after misses when they don't have numbers. That's for two reasons, early offense and two-man games.
So now you have teams running the floor harder and utilizing a lot more off the ball movement. It's starting to look like regular basketball. No question the old defensive rules of the NBA produced a ton of mis-matching, which really focused on spacing and standing in that space. So your point is valid, you can teach a dog new tricks.
There is no question this was the desired result. The ability to play a zone or a defense with zone tendencies, re: help side defenses, almost necessitates ball movement and player movement away from the ball.
You attack that kind of a defense by moving it, by stretching it from side to side, attacking its gaps to contract it. The other way you beat it is to beat it down the floor with early offense. Teams who can play this way will run for a quick, quality shot. If they can't you will likely see them exhaust the shot clock for something called.
The NBA game brought the shot clock to the college game, but the college coaches and international coaches taught the NBA coaches how to attack it. Early offense, offense in the middle of the shot clock, then a go to play or player for the end.
This isn't to say features such as two-man games and three-man games still don't or can't fluidly exist. You'll notice that NBA teams OFTEN ball screen after misses when they don't have numbers. That's for two reasons, early offense and two-man games.
So now you have teams running the floor harder and utilizing a lot more off the ball movement. It's starting to look like regular basketball. No question the old defensive rules of the NBA produced a ton of mis-matching, which really focused on spacing and standing in that space. So your point is valid, you can teach a dog new tricks.
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