From Netsdaily. http://www.northjersey.com/sports/nets/27584789.html The following is a really good read about what this offense is about, and goes into the history of its creation. I recommend reading it. The offense is named DDM (Drible-Drive-Motion) or AASAA (Attack-Attack-Skip-Attack-Attack). http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/grant_wahl/02/12/memphis0218/ Here are a few snippets: It's a very interesting offense, basically 4 perimeter players and 1 bigman, or 4 players who can drive and shoot the 3 well, and an athletic/mobile big man who can shoot and draw his man away from the lane. I'm sure Frank won't be using the offense in its entirety, but I like it.
which ties together well with Hodge working hard on his jump shot and driving to the hoop he mentioned in his blog. awesome. should be interesting to see this. could work well with Hayes, VC, DH, Brooke and maybe Yi on the floor or something.
I read that too. Boone will be limited to playing just center with Lopez unless he develops a jumpshot. And CDR should thrive having played it in college.
one of the beat writers mentioned that Boone has been working hard on a 15 (maybe 11 or 12, can't recall) foot shot.
Yeah. At work today (I had to take the bus. My Cobalt broke down. Grr), I saw J-Bizzy at the basketball game thing. He looked mad good, and won a prize. And he took a Magic ball! WTF?? I said wassup, and he just ignored me. It hurt.
I guess it makes sense having Yi as the starter and Anderson would work in it too, being perimeter-oriented 4s.
It suits Harris and Yi extremely well, and everyone else less well. The elements they use of this system will probably be to take advantage of Harris' strengths and cover up some of his weaknesses. He is tailor-made to play this way, and his game is not all that different than Derrick Rose, who was certainly successful running it. A backcourt of Harris and CDR might emerge as something very effective if they can get into a rhythm with this stuff. Vince will need more rest this year, so anything to keep putting up points when he sits will be welcome. This kind of offense might help with that. CDR would probably start if they went primarily to this system (which they won't).
assume for the moment that Al I. has surpassed his usual level of journalistic effort and this is in fact true. Obviously, Frank is adjusting the offense to match the strenghts and weaknesses of the personnell--notably, as you say, Devin Harris. At what point will critics stop claiming that Coach Frank doesn't make adjustments, just runs the same plays over and over, and is generally a terrible coach? As we've said, this entire season has been about giving him what he wants. Let's see what he does with it.
I disagree about Harris. Yes, he can drive, but he is very much a straight a head drive to the basket and then cycle it out the other side of the court. He isn't very good yet at being patient and probing a defense like Rose could.
this sounds like a good offense that will really open things up for harris being as he is more of an offensive pg with that likes to drive.
But that hasn't been a focus of his development. Certainly Dallas had no interest in this type of system and his short time with the Nets was more about the transition game and a lot of pick and roll and forcing mismatches with wing players in the post. His skills really suit a system like this. I think he could pick this up very quickly and it might help his overall game as well. I know you think he's a poor distributor and he's been a little slow to make decisions, but he improved literally immediately after 160 pounds of Avery was removed from his back. I think he has presented a lot of evidence that he has much better instincts than he's been able to show and this is the type of play that can really keep him engaged and take his offense (which isn't terrible) to the next level.
This benifits the rookies the most as well, no? Brook as the big man down low while Ryan has the outside shot and the speed to beat his man while CDR played this way in college.
haha...i wonder how hassell, stro and SWat are doing in practices...lol at least boone positions himself well to get that angle for the pass for that free dunk... we should have paid a lot of money for "la bomba" who has the "best runner in europe" or rudy fernandez who will excel at this as the shooter in the corner who will alternate as the attacker if the 1st attacker comes up empty...
Wow... you guys are really starving for good bball if you think Ryan Anderson can be a beast in any system. No knock on ryan anderson, but beast? He might be a scott padgett player if he works hard. We'll see how long this system lasts. VC and Harris can penetrate, but i dont know how the lack of screens is going to work. Pick and roll is the hardest play to defend in the NBA.
