3ball
06-19-2015, 06:01 AM
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THE TRIANGLE:
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/40c7f50f51d157d6714a00ab0aceb160.gif
The play above is from a 1990 regular season game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=519CMlXJmTg&t=0m16s), where MJ was matched up at SG with Reggie Lewis, a noted all-star and great two-way player..
But MJ's game was too diverse and unexpected - he could chew up a defender in 2 seconds:
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/c97cf377ef906f033f11575093f82dd7.gif
Throughout the 80's, the Celtics took the best advantage of the league's legal paint-camping rules, which helped them be the #1 defense in the league at their peak (86').. Their paint-camping (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11128760&postcount=33) coupled with the absence of weakside spacing in basketball at the time, kept all 5 defenders in the paint and/or on the strongside, and therefore closest to help on strongside action:
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/32e8f0959395ab90dadeb1c073b070e6.gif
.
THE TRIANGLE:
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/40c7f50f51d157d6714a00ab0aceb160.gif
The play above is from a 1990 regular season game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=519CMlXJmTg&t=0m16s), where MJ was matched up at SG with Reggie Lewis, a noted all-star and great two-way player..
But MJ's game was too diverse and unexpected - he could chew up a defender in 2 seconds:
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/c97cf377ef906f033f11575093f82dd7.gif
Throughout the 80's, the Celtics took the best advantage of the league's legal paint-camping rules, which helped them be the #1 defense in the league at their peak (86').. Their paint-camping (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11128760&postcount=33) coupled with the absence of weakside spacing in basketball at the time, kept all 5 defenders in the paint and/or on the strongside, and therefore closest to help on strongside action:
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/32e8f0959395ab90dadeb1c073b070e6.gif
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