Quote:Not shooting out of a slump, simply shooting. There here was not a lot of set offense by GS last night. I still don't quite get your take on Cleveland offense.

 

I don't like when an Offense appears to be nothing more than an Iso play with no attempt to move the ball inside then back out. To me, that's how basketball is supposed to look; you make the Defense react (i.e. work) to what you are doing with the ball, then you attack the open areas. The perfect example of this was the Kobe-Shaq Lakers in the sense that everything went into Shag first to see if the Defense would collapse, then work off of that. Cleveland's Offense simply puts the ball into the hand of the best player on the court again and again and again and makes him work for his shot. It's effective, it just doesn't seem to have a lot of imagination.

 

Granted, that may be a flawed or even myopic view, but it's what I know.

 

In that sense, Golden State doesn't really make the Defense react first in the sense that they will shoot if they see an opening regardless of making the Defense uncoil. Now, I'm okay with this because in a sense you are still taking advantage of weak spots in the Defense, you're just doing it without dumping the ball into the interior. Now in Golden State's situation, I can see that because I don't know that Bogut et al are all that capable of 1. threatening a Defense with an interior scoring presence or 2. capable of passing the ball back out in order to set up another player. So you make the Defense react to you by moving through screens and making the Defense defend all the way out to the Three-Point Arc.

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