Breakdown of new Shaq-Suns Offense

[WuRaider]

Excerpt:

With all the craziness of the past few days of the first round of the NCAA Tournament I haven't had a chance to watch many NBA games. But with this break in between rounds, I did catch a big matchup between the Suns and Pistons tonight.

I knew that the Suns were a hot team going in having won 7 in a row. I watched a segment on ESPN where they explained that the Suns had moved away from a fast-break spread offense to more of a flex-based and triangle-based half-court offense. A bunch of stats were quoted, but it basically boiled down to more of a slow-it-down playoff type game. So naturally that piqued my interest to see what the Suns are doing now and I took 2 clips from the first half showing their new offense. The first one is their flex and the second is their triangle offense,


Click link for video and diagrams:
http://coachingbetterbball.blogspot.com/2008/03/suns-new-combo-flex-triangle-offense.html

 

[elindholm]

(Cue Laker fans telling us that the Triangle is more complicated than general relativity and that there's no possible way D'Antoni could teach any portion of it in only a month...)

 

[bigfoot]

(Cue Laker fans telling us that the Triangle is more complicated than general relativity and that there's no possible way D'Antoni could teach any portion of it in only a month...)