Is good basketball more like chess or checkers?

[Street Hunger]

The easy answer is that good basketball is more like chess and checkers. Because chess is a more complex game.

But a lot of really good teams just sort of swing the ball around the perimeter and play a style of basketball that looks more like checkers than chess. Including some teams that want championships.

There's probably a better way to ask the sort of question that I'm asking it but you get what I'm trying to say.

[SouBeachTalents]

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[Wally450]

Every sport is a chess match. It may look like checkers to us armchair analysts at times, but there's so many little things that go into a team playing well.

[Phoenix]

I think the game was more like chess in the past, because the emphasis on controlling the X's and O's was greater ( controlling the glass, winning the turnover battle, out-assisting the opponent, matchups). Those things are still important, but the prominence of the 3pointer has had somewhat of an equalizing effect. I mean we've seen shit like teams having a 3 on 1 break and the wings sprint to the 3point line instinctively.