Let's discuss floor spacing
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 9:12 pm
Some potential questions to drive the conversation (feel free to answer any or all of them, or add your own thoughts on the topic in general
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1) How do you personally define spacing? What must a player be able to do to properly space the floor?
2) What are your thoughts on spacing prior to the 3pt era? Did it exist in any meaningful form? Which innovations/rule-changes (triangle offense, Rudy T's schemes, shortened 3pt line, SSOL Suns, 2.9 era defense/Thibs, cracking down on hand-checking, etc.) contributed most to the evolution of spacing in your opinion?
3) What's the relationship between spacing and pacing? Should you ever pass up an open three? Thoughts on transition threes?
4) How much value does a low-post big add to spacing? How much does proper spacing help out a low-post big? How good of a pacer do you need your big to be in a low-post isolation offense? Thoughts in general on a 4-out-1-in floor configuration? Notable examples of good and poor floor spacing around low-post scoring bigs?
5) Thoughts on stretch-4s and stretch-5s in general? Notable such players all-time and today? How much does a big who can play the high post (in terms of shooting, passing) improve your floor spacing (and is it worth the tradeoff in terms of offensive rebounding)?

1) How do you personally define spacing? What must a player be able to do to properly space the floor?
2) What are your thoughts on spacing prior to the 3pt era? Did it exist in any meaningful form? Which innovations/rule-changes (triangle offense, Rudy T's schemes, shortened 3pt line, SSOL Suns, 2.9 era defense/Thibs, cracking down on hand-checking, etc.) contributed most to the evolution of spacing in your opinion?
3) What's the relationship between spacing and pacing? Should you ever pass up an open three? Thoughts on transition threes?
4) How much value does a low-post big add to spacing? How much does proper spacing help out a low-post big? How good of a pacer do you need your big to be in a low-post isolation offense? Thoughts in general on a 4-out-1-in floor configuration? Notable examples of good and poor floor spacing around low-post scoring bigs?
5) Thoughts on stretch-4s and stretch-5s in general? Notable such players all-time and today? How much does a big who can play the high post (in terms of shooting, passing) improve your floor spacing (and is it worth the tradeoff in terms of offensive rebounding)?