The NBA team NOT running pick & rolls (!) [Thinking Basketball]

[Im Still Ballin]

Memphis are doing some pretty wild things. Incredibly low amount of ball screens and hand-offs. Very fast pace. Super-deep rotations and extremely frequent subsitutions. 18-8, 2nd in the West, fourth-best differential, top 5 SRS, offense, and defense.

All this despite leading the league in amount of games missed due to players injured.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6-NPUOHH6I&ab_channel=ThinkingBasketball

[Neal Romer]

They finished second in the West not too long ago and got smoked in the first round by LeFlameThrower.

Probably see a similar result this year.

[Im Still Ballin]

This is just another example of there being multiple ways to win. Every year or so we get another team doing something different and succeeding because of it. We've seen offensive rebounding come back en vogue in recent years. Now we've got a team barely setting screens with an elite offense.

Hell, Cleveland's offense became elite and they're doing it with two non-shooting bigs.

Have to avoid false narratives presented as hard-boiled rules. The game is complex and nuanced. Many ways to skin a cat.

[Im Still Ballin]

Per the video:

Memphis is averaging 43 ball screens/hand-offs per 100. Least by a country mile since they started tracking it 12 years ago. The league average is 89. The Nets lead the league with 117. Boston are 29th and run 71.

[Full Court]

This is just another example of there being multiple ways to win. Every year or so we get another team doing something different and succeeding because of it. We've seen offensive rebounding come back en vogue in recent years. Now we've got a team barely setting screens with an elite offense.

Hell, Cleveland's offense became elite and they're doing it with two non-shooting bigs.

Have to avoid false narratives presented as hard-boiled rules. The game is complex and nuanced. Many ways to skin a cat.

Grizzlies are fun to watch this year. Hope they make it past the first round.

[dankok8]

This is just another example of there being multiple ways to win. Every year or so we get another team doing something different and succeeding because of it. We've seen offensive rebounding come back en vogue in recent years. Now we've got a team barely setting screens with an elite offense.

Hell, Cleveland's offense became elite and they're doing it with two non-shooting bigs.

Have to avoid false narratives presented as hard-boiled rules. The game is complex and nuanced. Many ways to skin a cat.

The game is complex and nuanced indeed. I love teams that do things differently. Enough just P&R and threes threes threes...

[sdot_thadon]

This is just another example of there being multiple ways to win. Every year or so we get another team doing something different and succeeding because of it. We've seen offensive rebounding come back en vogue in recent years. Now we've got a team barely setting screens with an elite offense.

Hell, Cleveland's offense became elite and they're doing it with two non-shooting bigs.

Have to avoid false narratives presented as hard-boiled rules. The game is complex and nuanced. Many ways to skin a cat.

Exactly. I just think fans are too hungry up nowadays on their specific preferences of how the game should be played. If we could get the league to adjust physicality just a bit more back in the other direction we could get even more styles popping back up.