Throughout the history of the NBA, there have been many schemes and strategies used to create the most potent offense possible, an offense that is limited only by the ability of the players and has the potential to have role players make a big impact on the team and catapult star players into superstar talents. One of the attempts to create one of these lethal offenses is Tex Winter’s Triangle Offense. Adapted from Coach Sam Barry, to which Winter credits the invention, Tex’s redressing and further advancement of the system led to him and Head Coach Phil Jackson to a combined 11 championships with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers with Hall of Fame players, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and
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Yet, for a plethora of reasons and with many examples, the transition to a Triangle Offense has not worked for many teams. The Triangle Offense is suited for a team without a conventional point guard, but has a dominant ball-handling big man, which, in most cases the introduction and the eventual popularization of the 3-pt line (which guards use most often) has caused a sudden boost in the recruiting, scouting, and training of point guards which put big men into a lesser role in the offense. Tara VanDerveer no longer runs the Triangle Offense at Stanford because her team’s strength is currently guards, which is against the fundamentals of the Triangle Offense. Coach Quinn Buckner attempted to follow the example left by Coach Tex and Phil with the Dallas Maverick and started the season 1-23 and was promptly fired. Phil Jackson was the Team President of the New York Knicks, who, finished with a disappointing 31-51 record during the 2016-2017 season while still running the Triangle Offense and overall have an 85-161 record under Jackson. Author of the article The Obtuse Triangle Nicholas Dawidoff stated,“ There was an insightful solution invented to forestall every known problem. It was a New Deal offense, wary, something fungible always in reserve. Likewise, I was certain that Winter believed no team was ever truly …show more content…
In total, he won 902 games amongst his 3 teams (it could have been more if he avoided multiple incidents at Indiana) and of course teams wanted to copy Knight’s strategies to gain a similar level of success. But the offense itself was so complex and difficult to teach that by the time teams began to understand his style the next wave of offenses (that being the 2004 Phoenix Suns’ high paced ‘7 Seconds or Less’ Offense) had already caught the ire of many coaches. Nowadays very few of the motion offenses concepts are still exhibited on a normal basis by any team at any level of
Yet, for a plethora of reasons and with many examples, the transition to a Triangle Offense has not worked for many teams. The Triangle Offense is suited for a team without a conventional point guard, but has a dominant ball-handling big man, which, in most cases the introduction and the eventual popularization of the 3-pt line (which guards use most often) has caused a sudden boost in the recruiting, scouting, and training of point guards which put big men into a lesser role in the offense. Tara VanDerveer no longer runs the Triangle Offense at Stanford because her team’s strength is currently guards, which is against the fundamentals of the Triangle Offense. Coach Quinn Buckner attempted to follow the example left by Coach Tex and Phil with the Dallas Maverick and started the season 1-23 and was promptly fired. Phil Jackson was the Team President of the New York Knicks, who, finished with a disappointing 31-51 record during the 2016-2017 season while still running the Triangle Offense and overall have an 85-161 record under Jackson. Author of the article The Obtuse Triangle Nicholas Dawidoff stated,“ There was an insightful solution invented to forestall every known problem. It was a New Deal offense, wary, something fungible always in reserve. Likewise, I was certain that Winter believed no team was ever truly …show more content…
In total, he won 902 games amongst his 3 teams (it could have been more if he avoided multiple incidents at Indiana) and of course teams wanted to copy Knight’s strategies to gain a similar level of success. But the offense itself was so complex and difficult to teach that by the time teams began to understand his style the next wave of offenses (that being the 2004 Phoenix Suns’ high paced ‘7 Seconds or Less’ Offense) had already caught the ire of many coaches. Nowadays very few of the motion offenses concepts are still exhibited on a normal basis by any team at any level of