A Sea Of Red

Seriously.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/ ... -strategy/

that is awful but I am not going to lie I would now tune in to see the Kings just to see it fail.

That is so crazy it just might work...or not

As a longtime Kings fan I can say we used to have an exciting team. I'm hoping in the coming years we'll see a return to old form. This doesn't give me a lot of hope...

ATrain wrote:That is so crazy it just might work...or not

It's how Paul Westhead started his offensive scheme
I may or may not know a coach who did that, successfully, when their opponent tried to stall.

Purple Haize wrote:

ATrain wrote:That is so crazy it just might work...or not

It's how Paul Westhead started his offensive scheme
I may or may not know a coach who did that, successfully, when their opponent tried to stall.

Yes, and Paul Westhead's career was overall terrible once he started using his half-baked scheme.

That stuff doesn't work in the NBA. He did win a championship with the Lakers in 1980, but he hadn't implemented his version fo the run-and-gun that year.

After the 1989–1990 season, Westhead left LMU for the NBA's Denver Nuggets, a position he held for two seasons. His tenure in Denver was best known for attempting to incorporate the run-and-gun offense that worked for LMU to the NBA.

However, while Denver averaged a league-best 119.9 points per game in 1990–91, it also surrendered an NBA record 130.8 points per game, including 107 points in a single half to the Phoenix Suns, which remains an NBA record.

Doesn't generally work out in the college game either. Sure they went to the Elite 8 one year, but they had the whole Hank Gathers dying tragedy motivating them. Two previous years saw them lose in the first and second round. When he tried it at George Mason, it failed miserably as he finished with a 38-70 record.

Scoring a ton of points is all fine and dandy, it will put some butts in the seats and accomplish one of their goals of being more exciting. I beg to differ that losing isn't exactly exciting no matter how much you are scoring though. But the Kings ownership also wants to win championships. Making it a whole lot easier for teams to score in a game that is designed to benefit the offense to begin with is now a way to win championships in the NBA or men's college hoops.

With all the good penetrators and shooters in the game these days, the most there has ever been, they seriously think giving them more driving lanes and more space to shoot is going to equate to more wins? It's comically stupid. They were on pace to be a playoff team before DeMarcus Cousins contracted meningitis and has missed something like 9 straight games.

I need to refer back to some of my projects in Coaching Basketball, I'm afraid they stole my idea.

And if you want to get an idea of how the Grinnell approach is working in the D League, check out Reno. They hired the son of the Grinnell coach to run "The System." They are averaging 140.1 points, allowing 135.1 a game with 56% shooting. D Leaguers are even scoring at will on this junk, what do they think much more skilled NBA players with better coaching are going to do to it?