When did the "Everybody Must Small Ball" memo come out?

[ShoogarBear]

I hope I'm not slaughtering anyone's sacred cow here, but IMHO the NBA was a of a lot lamer when everyone just ran the isolation play. 8 guys standing around watching one on one basketball is the lamest thing ever.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but the Mavs do almost nothing except isolation and high pick-n-rolls.

In another thread somebody posted they had one of the worst assist-to-basket ratios of the past several decades(?).

[strangeweather]

I understand the point you're trying to make, but the Mavs do almost nothing except isolation and high pick-n-rolls.

In another thread somebody posted they had one of the worst assist-to-basket ratios of the past several decades(?).

Thanks to the NBA decriminalizing the moving pick, the high pick-and-roll is the deadliest play in basketball right now. Slow down the defender with a screen that doesn't have to be set properly anymore, and race to the basket to either create contact or lay it up.

But there's plenty of good news on that front: both Manu and Tony are completely lethal off the high pick, so we can give as good as we get.

A more mobile PF makes it easier to switch defenders, which reduces the advantage the offense now has.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Small ball isn't an athletic four or long three. Small ball is the kind of you saw when we trotted out Tim along with Bowen, Finley, Manu, and Tim.

And if the Spurs are going to play small ball like that, they will never win another NBA championship in the Tim Duncan era.

[strangeweather]

Small ball isn't an athletic four or long three. Small ball is the kind of you saw when we trotted out Tim along with Bowen, Finley, Manu, and Tim.

And if the Spurs are going to play small ball like that, they will never win another NBA championship in the Tim Duncan era.

Probably not.

But if we had the athletic four and/or the long three, we wouldn't have had to go to the well and try to call Finley a PF.