Bball Breakdown: What's Wrong with the Lakers Offense

lakersin4 wrote:Amazing how fluid the offense looks & how easy the buckets can be when they're running it right..

Rooscooter wrote:How about the fact we've had a hand full of practices where we've had the entire team together to actually install it..... same thing as last year.

Howard and Hill were out in the early pre-season..... Kobe in the late pre-season.... Nash out now...

We're a year down the road and we still have no actual offensive scheme that's consistent from possession to possession.

What's going on defensively is a bigger mystery to me. How can we not know what to do there?....

What's going on defensively is a bigger mystery to me. How can we not know what to do there?....

When George Karl was in between jobs in 2003-04, he wanted to learn about the Princeton offense and so he spent a few days with Northwestern watching the practices of coach Bill Carmody, who had been Carril's assistant and successor at Princeton. Karl was impressed by Carmody's ability to break down the complicated system and teach his players to run it efficiently. But he also noticed that Northwestern hadn't paid much attention to the defensive end. He asked Carmody how much time he spent coaching defense, and Carmody replied that there was little time to focus exclusively on defense because the intricacies of the offense ate up most of their practices. That revelation convinced Karl to stay away from the Princeton offense.

This isn't to say that the Princeton is a lousy offense. On the contrary: It is a terrific scheme, and no one in the NBA is better at teaching it than Eddie Jordan, a new assistant to Brown's Lakers. Jordan was the assistant for the Nets when his Princeton offense helped them reach the NBA Finals in 2002 and '03.
But those Nets were a running team. They were defined more than anything by their talent for scoring in transition. None of their scorers excelled at getting his own shot in the half court, and so they relied on the mechanism of the Princeton offense to help create shots when the game slowed down. It was a good system for the Nets.


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Rooscooter wrote:This is completely backwards of how we should approach it..... we are not going to raise our possessions per game hardly at all this year.... we just don't have the personnel for it..... so the way to increase point differential is to play better defense and get better shots..... The playing better defense part should come first.... not second. Our defense the last couple of years was good enough to win but we lacked any idea on how to close close games other than Kobe isolation..... Now we are going to let that go because we are going to install a complicated offense that doesn't complement the personnel at the expense of the one thing we were doing at a championship level.....

This guy needs to go.....and go quickly. I'm becoming more convinced that JVG might be a good coach for this veteran team. He would instill a sense of toughness and a defense that will help us when the playoffs come around.... A good to very good defense would work great with an offense that lets Nash be Nash and Kobe be Kobe.... not some offensive system devised to create equal opportunity for guys like MWP and Morris over guys like Howard, Pau and Kobe.... ugh....

LOSLAKERS wrote:For some reason I just hate this guy. Can't put my finger on it however.