One of the biggest complaints I had in the Stotts era, and I was more of a Stotts supporter around here than most. Great teams have to develop a bench. Even if they lose games, it's needed to keep starters fresh and bench confident come playoff time. Stotts would get the team a 3 seeds but totally exhausted, thin rotation, no counter to traps, and depleted as the playoffs start.
Tex Winter used to say he liked it better when the scrubs were in for the Bulls, because they really ran the triangle right. I think we saw true ChaunceyBall last night, and I'm a believer!
I thought Chauncey-ball was just a fairy tale Just a rumored, hyped defensive scheme Dame's prime would be wasted That's the way it seemed Disappointment haunted all of my dreams Then I saw the bench; Now I'm a believer! Their defense Was out of its mind! I'm in love (oooooooh) I'm a believer Chauncey-ball leaves me so satisfied!
The league has so much talent today that we might see coaches, systems and strategy become more important. Even tanking teams like the Jazz, Kings, Hornets, and Wizard have some very talented starters. That wasn't the case 15 years ago. Teams with two stars and crap role players like the Lakers suck. 15 years ago that wouldn't have been the case.
now that is a quality post. Has me humming of course, 4 Monkees on typewriters will eventually make a quality post
To be fair, it was kinda ugly. We just ended up on the right side of things in the end (and even then, the NBA’s L2M casts a shadow over things…).
Teams seem to know what they are looking for and have been drafting better as well. Even a draft class like 2022 that didn’t have much hype, abunch of those guys are already big contributors to their team less than 10 games into the season.
