3ball
05-31-2015, 10:43 AM
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Today: Every team's 3-point shooting and spacing strategy uses weakside floor-spreaders to reduce # of strongside defenders:
http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/5-25-2015/7mUjI9.gif
Previous eras: No weakside floor-spreaders to draw defenders away resulting in more defenders on strongside (usually all 5):
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/372331790f2b699680f68849fe3dee07.gif
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/ebf928d9aec8d9349ef10cda4c3d8a56.gif
It's clear as day - today's player never faces strongsides with more than 1 or 2 defenders, due to weakside floor-spreaders that lure defenders away.. This actually necessitates the flooding of defenders BACK TO the strongside, so the strongside can have more than just 1 or 2 defenders.. But certainly, if there were no weakside floor-spreaders drawing defenders away, defenders would never leave the strongside to begin with, thus eliminating the need for flooding.. Indeed - today's strongside flood is only necessary BECAUSE of spacing/weakside-floor-spreaders.
Here's a thread with GIFs showing how Lebron usually faced only 1 defender on strongside (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=377570) in the Atlanta series - this is standard in today's game because every team's 3-point shooting and spacing strategy uses weakside floor-spreaders to draw defenders away from strongside.
Otoh, these floor-spreaders didn't exist in previous eras, so defenders weren't lured away - defenders just remained on the strongside, which meant players faced strongsides that were already flooded with all 5 defenders (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11128077&postcount=21).. The difference is night and day - just a completely different game altogether.
In addition to the porous strongside defense caused by weakside floor-spreaders, today's spacing provides wider lanes and more time/room for players to operate.. Spacing also combines with the bans on paint-camping and hand-checking to "open up the game" for perimeter players, as the league intended (http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/04/09/stujackson/index.html).
Today: Every team's 3-point shooting and spacing strategy uses weakside floor-spreaders to reduce # of strongside defenders:
http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/5-25-2015/7mUjI9.gif
Previous eras: No weakside floor-spreaders to draw defenders away resulting in more defenders on strongside (usually all 5):
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/372331790f2b699680f68849fe3dee07.gif
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/other/grand/ebf928d9aec8d9349ef10cda4c3d8a56.gif
It's clear as day - today's player never faces strongsides with more than 1 or 2 defenders, due to weakside floor-spreaders that lure defenders away.. This actually necessitates the flooding of defenders BACK TO the strongside, so the strongside can have more than just 1 or 2 defenders.. But certainly, if there were no weakside floor-spreaders drawing defenders away, defenders would never leave the strongside to begin with, thus eliminating the need for flooding.. Indeed - today's strongside flood is only necessary BECAUSE of spacing/weakside-floor-spreaders.
Here's a thread with GIFs showing how Lebron usually faced only 1 defender on strongside (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=377570) in the Atlanta series - this is standard in today's game because every team's 3-point shooting and spacing strategy uses weakside floor-spreaders to draw defenders away from strongside.
Otoh, these floor-spreaders didn't exist in previous eras, so defenders weren't lured away - defenders just remained on the strongside, which meant players faced strongsides that were already flooded with all 5 defenders (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11128077&postcount=21).. The difference is night and day - just a completely different game altogether.
In addition to the porous strongside defense caused by weakside floor-spreaders, today's spacing provides wider lanes and more time/room for players to operate.. Spacing also combines with the bans on paint-camping and hand-checking to "open up the game" for perimeter players, as the league intended (http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/04/09/stujackson/index.html).