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Rick Ruffin's avatar

Don’t some teams have assistant coaches that specialize in either offense or defense? So why not bring in an assistant who can teach a more sophisticated offense with lots of movement. Isolation ball will not work (or will only work when Joel is healthily on the court).

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coords1306's avatar

You can only have so many undersized guards on the court at a time for so long without it meaning no matter what your defense won't be up to snuff. Unlocking fully optimized offense won't matter if the other team gets it right back the other way.

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Eric Hines's avatar

Sorry, but you fai to mention a rather salient fact that bears on this matter: for a lot of the season they were losing on purpose. And for the rest of it they were trying to figure out how to integrate their big offensive guns. In neither case to you roll out a whole load of set-piece plays because you are either a) not really wanting to score more than the other side; or b) trying to figure out what you have with the pieces on the board and what sorts of advantages they open up.

They managed very little data gathering, so I imagine that what you'll see is the pretty simple offense evolving into an offense designed to maximize several inherent advantages they've got.

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