Triangle Offense

An interesting article was published in the New York Times on December 13th, 2009, written by JONATHAN ABRAMS. It talks about triangle offense. We all know that Phil Jackson used this offense with Michael Jordan, then with Kobe Bryant (also with Shaq while in LA) to win some championships. The article talks about Kurt Rambis (reference, picture ) who’s trying to implement this offense with the Timberwolves. Read more ->

Pick and Roll in Today’s Game

Synergy Sports Technology is a very cool company which tags videos of every basketball game in the world. This makes it possible for the company to know exactly what every player did during every minute he played. From this, the company derives the gold mine of data pertaining to individual players, offensive and defensive team tendencies, and they can also roll up the stats for the whole league.

In the New York Times article from November 19th, the author Jonathan Abrams analyzes some data from Synergy and extrapolates interesting facts about the usage and value of the old-school “pick and roll” offensive strategy.

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