Attn: Basketball Purists - Offense - Great Read

[pmulcahy96]

Excellent read. Would have been interesting if SHU implemented some basic principles, since we don't have a true pg. Looking at recent teams, I think this would have been a great offense for Gibbs and Auda.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/s...jackson-knicks-triangle-offense-nba.html?_r=1

 

[Bud Boomer]

At this point, I'll take anything that doesn't involve excessive weaving, handoffs, dribbling, and ball screens.

 

[hallball]

It is about fundamentals. The article hits on one problem with the American evolution of basketball - individual play worthy of ESPN highlight shows. The European model emphasizes player development and fundamental skills. You need the latter to run the triangle and several other offenses. Otherwise, we get into pick and roll and iso games, aka the NBA - - no thanks. Coaching is so challenging today because of the poor fundamental skills, especially team based skills.

 

[Joe_T]

About halfway down that article is this:

"Passes move faster than players, and Winter, like Carril, knows that defenses besieged by a ball in constant flight rarely sustain full effort for entire possessions."​

Linden High School's offense, with relative midgets, does this, and has won, or been in the games against tall recruiting powerhouses for years.

Seton Hall, on the other hand, ...

 

[Seton75]

It is about fundamentals. The article hits on one problem with the American evolution of basketball - individual play worthy of ESPN highlight shows. The European model emphasizes player development and fundamental skills. You need the latter to run the triangle and several other offenses. Otherwise, we get into pick and roll and iso games, aka the NBA - - no thanks. Coaching is so challenging today because of the poor fundamental skills, especially team based skills.

AAU, travel teams, all star games, big AAU tourneys, that is what kids want, not practice. Kids should be in the gym getting better but they are running and dunking in some free for all instead. And they can dunk like crazy. But so much else can be lacking. They read of Kobe or MJ dedicating their summers to get better while in the NBA, or Magic and Bird. But they don't do it. And if they did, the profile of schools recruiting them would probably lessen cause they are not out and about all summer.

And now the NBA has to look at these frosh and predict which kids will be best in three years.

I would love to see some stats of which kids get the good second contracts, the young kids teams give a shot, or the more seasoned kids who put in 3-4 years in college. But I bet the percentages are similar.

The large percentages of successful Euro players should be telling someone to change how we are doing it here. But lesson not learned.

 

[Bud Boomer]

It is about fundamentals. The article hits on one problem with the American evolution of basketball - individual play worthy of ESPN highlight shows. The European model emphasizes player development and fundamental skills. You need the latter to run the triangle and several other offenses. Otherwise, we get into pick and roll and iso games, aka the NBA - - no thanks. Coaching is so challenging today because of the poor fundamental skills, especially team based skills.

If I'm an AD interviewing a prospective coach, and I hear the words "I run an NBA system" or "I like to give my players the freedom to make plays," I would end the interview immediately. Watching college players try to run an NBA system is like watching a little leaguer try to throw back door sliders.