thejumper5
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They didn't bring him in to run the Princeton. They brought him in last summer (2011), he coached a season, didn't like the offense, then changed to the Princeton this past offseason.
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They didn't bring him in to run the Princeton. They brought him in last summer (2011), he coached a season, didn't like the offense, then changed to the Princeton this past offseason.
HawkeyeMike23
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This is going to end badly for the Lakers. D'Antoni always plays a very short rotation. Doing that with a group of aging stars and without the Phoenix training staff is going to put a lot of wear on the players before they even get to the playoffs.
On the plus side, having a guy like Dwight makes up for a lot of the defensive issues, mainly Nash, that plagued D'Antoni's Suns teams. I still see a second round loss of LA. Their bench is still terrible and their starters are too old, not a good combination.
woodyk1
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And, it was Kobe Bryant who convinced Mike Brown to bring in the Princeton offense (according to this article in July).
Kobe Bryant goes back to school: Lakers switching to Princeton offense - Yahoo! Sports
Even before the Los Angeles Lakers delivered him point guard Steve Nash, Bryant had raised an idea with coach Mike Brown about the possibility of employing a distant cousin to the triangle – the Princeton offense.
"It's a great offense," Bryant told Yahoo! Sports. "It's exactly what we need. It takes us back to being able to play by making reads and reacting to defenses. It takes a great deal of communication, but that's where we're at our best: Reading and reacting as opposed to just coming down and calling sets. Calling sets make you vulnerable.
"There's so many threats, so many options, it's very tough to defend. Against the type of defenses that teams play nowadays, they load up on one side and are constantly coming with help from the weak side. The Princeton offense makes it very, very tough to lock in on one particular player.
"From my experience, those types of principles – ball movement, changing sides on the floor, everybody being involved – those are championship principles. That's championship DNA."
