Errntknght
Registered User
3rdside:
I think its germane to point out that we didn't try a 2 PG system, it was 2 combo guards. The system Jeff based it on was himself with KJ and with Stockton and those weren't 2 PGs sets either - one excellent PG and one combo guard. Neither took the world by storm, in case you were wondering.
The stated reason for playing Bledsoe and Dragic was that Jeff wanted the team to fastbreak and with them both on the floor there'd be two outlet targets. They both liked to push the ball so they matched his plans in that regard. IMO, it was not much of a success because they were on the floor with a very poor rebounding front court. I have to assume McD & Jeff don't share that opinion because improving the teams rebounding was not made a priority. Tolliver was a particularly poor choice and his history proclaimed that would be so. Wright was an improvement in general but didn't add rebounding.
Adding Tyson Chandler will help the rebounding but we still didn't get a PF who is a strong rebounder. Then there is the question of Brandon Knight - will he push the ball enough? The same question is valid about Ronnie Price.
The thing I question is whether the value of having two outlets for fastbreaks worth the ugly rotation it forces among the guards? The best fastbreaking teams of all time (Auerbach's Celtics and the Showtime Lakers) didn't do anything along that line but they had strong rebounding. There were also very talented teams, of course, so they'd have been in title hunt without the fastbreak. Presumeably, they thought it gave them an edge, and who's to argue with their results.
I think its germane to point out that we didn't try a 2 PG system, it was 2 combo guards. The system Jeff based it on was himself with KJ and with Stockton and those weren't 2 PGs sets either - one excellent PG and one combo guard. Neither took the world by storm, in case you were wondering.
The stated reason for playing Bledsoe and Dragic was that Jeff wanted the team to fastbreak and with them both on the floor there'd be two outlet targets. They both liked to push the ball so they matched his plans in that regard. IMO, it was not much of a success because they were on the floor with a very poor rebounding front court. I have to assume McD & Jeff don't share that opinion because improving the teams rebounding was not made a priority. Tolliver was a particularly poor choice and his history proclaimed that would be so. Wright was an improvement in general but didn't add rebounding.
Adding Tyson Chandler will help the rebounding but we still didn't get a PF who is a strong rebounder. Then there is the question of Brandon Knight - will he push the ball enough? The same question is valid about Ronnie Price.
The thing I question is whether the value of having two outlets for fastbreaks worth the ugly rotation it forces among the guards? The best fastbreaking teams of all time (Auerbach's Celtics and the Showtime Lakers) didn't do anything along that line but they had strong rebounding. There were also very talented teams, of course, so they'd have been in title hunt without the fastbreak. Presumeably, they thought it gave them an edge, and who's to argue with their results.
