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[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by L.A. Chieffan

You don't have to be a genius to learn the triangle but the triangle makes a pg irrelevant. We'd have arguably the best PG in the game the last 15 years standing around wishing he was in Toronto.

The Tri can make the PG irrelevant, but doesn't have to.

All you do is essentially use Kobe in a SF role, rather than have him bringing the ball up. If you have Nash as the primary facilitator in the tri, you'd have a very dangerous setup with Kobe in wings cutting without the ball.

The only reason PG was irrelevant under the Triangle as we know it, is we know it as being run by Kobe and Jordan; guys that dominated the ball. That offense would absolutely work well with Nash facilitating and Kobe flashing through the wings.

[L.A. Chieffan]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

The Tri can make the PG irrelevant, but doesn't have to.

All you do is essentially use Kobe in a SF role, rather than have him bringing the ball up. If you have Nash as the primary facilitator in the tri, you'd have a very dangerous setup with Kobe in wings cutting without the ball.

The only reason PG was irrelevant under the Triangle as we know it, is we know it as being run by Kobe and Jordan; guys that dominated the ball. That offense would absolutely work well with Nash facilitating and Kobe flashing through the wings.

That's not the triangle that's the Princeton which we just got rid of

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by L.A. Chieffan

That's not the triangle that's the Princeton which we just got rid of

The Triangle takes many of the same principles of the Princeton and actually develops them.

The Tri is an evolutionary Princeton concept. It's what the Princeton should be but isn't (because slow, unathletic, part-time athletes were the guys that used it in the past).

It's a watered down triangle, so to speak. When you take the best athletes in the world, with nothing but basketball to do all day and have them run the Princeton, it's giving Wolfgang Puck the task of grilling hot dogs.

The Triangle, on the other hand, is a Filet. It can absolutely utilize the PG position if you have guys that believe in it. The Lakers didn't believe in the Princeton system because it was a massive step back for the holdovers. Moreover, it's easily diagnosed and defended. I'm not even convinced that the Lakers 'didn't get it'; I think it's just too easy a system for this level and it was exposed as such.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

When you take the best athletes in the world, with nothing but basketball to do all day and have them run the Princeton, it's giving Wolfgang Puck the task of grilling hot dogs.

Are we talking Hebrew National/Nathan's or Ball Park?

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Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP

Are we talking Hebrew National/Nathan's or Ball Park?

Great point.
Nathan's or bust at my house. HN will do in a pinch.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP

Are we talking Hebrew National/Nathan's or Ball Park?

The Princeton Offense?

That's Bar S shit right there.

I never understood why they decided it would be a good idea to take a simple, slow offense designed to maximize the talents of undersized white guys with limited time to learn it, and implement it in the NBA.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

The Princeton Offense?

That's Bar S shit right there.

I never understood why they decided it would be a good idea to take a simple, slow offense designed to maximize the talents of undersized white guys with limited time to learn it, and implement it in the NBA.

So if you took Bar S hot dogs, but had Wolfgang Puck prepare them, would they be > or < than Nathan's hot dogs?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP

So if you took Bar S hot dogs, but had Wolfgang Puck prepare them, would they be > or < than Nathan's hot dogs?

They would still be slow white guys taking 14 foot jumpers.