AussieBuck wrote:Spending all year, every year playing the same drop D when everyone had been game planning it since 2019 was a choice. Say what you want about having very little organisation on the scoring side but spending every postseason having to scramble after game one or two into switching that hadn't been practiced was certainly a thing we went through a bit.
Cherry on the top for me was when we went into that 1/2/2 or whatever it was we did in a fever dream or whatever happened early in the last series. Bud was an ill prepared panic merchant despite his many other positive qualities.
100% It’s not even that everyone was specifically game planning it since 2019. More that there has been a fundamental change in the roster makeup of teams in the past 10+ years since Bud debuted this scheme. The plan “We’re going to make role players beat us with above the break threes” was probably a great strategy in 2012 or something. In the meantime, nearly every role player in the NBA has become a guy who hits open above the break threes at a rate approaching 40%.
It’s just refusing to identify/adapt to a fundamental new reality in basketball at large. Beyond dumb.
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