01-03-2020, 11:42 PM
(01-03-2020, 10:33 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote:(01-03-2020, 10:06 PM)hakeemfan Wrote: From ESPN:
"I think the NBA made a big mistake when everybody tried to model themselves after the Golden State Warriors," Barkley says. "The Golden State Warriors had the three greatest shooters who ever lived. So, everybody starts shootin' 3s. There are seven teams shooting more 3s in the last two years than the Golden State Warriors. We know the Rockets are an anomaly.
"But the notion that six other teams would shoot more 3s than the three greatest shooters that ever lived, that's stupid, and asinine."
No team is copying the Warriors. If anything they are copying the Rockets. The Warriors rarely ran pick and roll plays. They also lead the league in midrange volume. A lot of horns sets with handoffs from the high post. Offball screens for Klay and Steph. The entire scheme was build around offball movement.
What we are seeing right now is the 4-1 or 5-out high pick and roll. Teams are spamming it and reset the play if it didn´t work. That´s Morey/D´Anthony ball.
Barkley openly admits that he rarely watches regular season games. No one should take anything coming from him serious. All I ever hear is random bigman x/y should post up. Teams are taking to many 3s.
Every time someone asks why a why a team is taking so many 3 point shots does not mean someone is asking a big man to be posted down low.
There have been others even before D’Antoni who have wanted to build an outside based offense. However no one took those guys, including D’Antoni, seriously until GS won. GS is what gave these teams the confidence that you can win a title that way. However as Barkley says, that team was built on the backs of 3 great shooters(2 for their first one). You can disparage Barkley all you want but it is a valid question to ask as to why so many teams are shooting more 3s than a team that had the greatest collection of shooters we might ever see.