Dwight inside out or Harden n Lin dribble penetration

Dwight said he doesn't like a PnR only offense (not he doesn't like PnR at all).

I think the answer to your poll is both.

We will have different line ups for different situations and different strategies for different teams.

The inside out and the PnR are not mutually exclusive. We will do an all of the above approach and maximise our offense.

 

Harden Dwight free-throw fest

 

I take it you've never watched San Antonio play?

 

not if you have a competent coach and a backcourt that doesn't demand the offense goes through them (kobe)

 

A poor mans Kobe/Shaq duo with both players getting theres is my dream. The new premier guard/big man duo. But to be realistic, Howard's post game has a long way to go, and I don't expect Howard to put up more than 20-22 ppg honestly, but even that would be really nice considering what we have now. Best thing is that it gives us another option on those nights that Harden doesn't have it.

 

OK. Then I say we run as much as possible with Dwight and Asik hoovering the boards and outlet to trigger the break.

No more free styling and much more set plays after having training camp this year. Set plays could be quick high PnRs with Harden/Howard or Lin/Howard if defense is slow getting set. Half court sets should include 3 touches a quarter for Dwight in the low post (12 touches a game). In that style, if the double him, you kick it to the corners or drop it off to a cutter on the weak side.

I'd like our style to be defined similar to the Spurs. A team that likes to run but can execute very well, especially down the stretch. A team that plays "team defense" and funnels players to our defensive strengths (twin towers).

Which option should I choose in the poll?

 

It's quite hard to speculate right now. They can fail, or they can create a whole new offense that we have never seen before. Lets just wait and see

 

Option 1 is contested jump shots, turnover prone and inefficient since we don't have pick and pop mid range big men.

Option 2 is open shooter shooting open shots.

I'll take 2

 

HAHA I just finished typing my reply and saw you beat me to the punchline!

San Antonio is the perfect model for our team. Great run and gun team who are also perfect in half court execution. You can have both styles and if you do master both half court and run 'n gun you could have success for a long long time.

 

Harden ISO FTW.

 

You can easily have both. You cannot run a pick and roll every play, and you cannot post up every play. Sometimes plays break down and you have to have a go to play, but at the same time you have to have mulitple plays in general. I'm sure we're going to be more of a big man team, but at the end of games we will not be going through Dwight.

 

One things for sure, Iso ball wont be preferable.

If your going to keep Asik and play them on the court at the same time alot, I think you need to start looking at bringing back the corner sets as a way to bring Asik away from the basket, and free up the perimeter players for easier looks as the offense might become more congested.

If your going to either NOT play Asik & Howard on the court at the same time(most likely), or Asik is going to be traded(likely but further down the road), you play the same style of basketball as you do now.

Howard says he doesn't like P&R, but its something he's going to have to get used to if he wants to play with a dynamic perimeter scorer who attacks the basket.

The nice thing about playing this style is Dwight would still have the ability to post up him man occasionally, and he would get many, many easy dunks at the rim due to dribble penetration. Its a more free style of play with surrounding players that fit the system much better than you saw with LA.

Most likely, you will see them play the same style of play unless they want to incorporate Asik & Howard on the court together at the same time. Then, I would say, its worth it to explore with some corner sets to bring Asik away from the basket.... and you better hope he develops enough offensively to make the offense come out and guard him.

 

I think the important thing is to have the option to do both. having a consistent post option would make our offense much better. the reason he didn't feel involved on the high pick a roll because the players never passed him the ball on the roll. if he is consistently getting hammer dunks like omer was then he will be happy. Passing the ball to the post will get the opp team in penalty much quicker allowing our penetration to cause havoc.