It's "dribble drive motion" offense, or AASAA offense, Memphis Offense (Calipari's system has more ball motion around the perimeter), etc. This bodes very well for CDR, I think he would struggle playing in another system (in fact, I believe this reason played a big role on why the Nets were the first team willing to take the risk of drafting him).
They were using it versus the Heat the other day and outscored them by a 20 points margin after six minutes - not just because of the offensive concept, I hope. Frank proceeded to make substitute most of his starters, probably because things were getting a little bit embarrassing.
The C's also used some DDM sets last season. Including a very unorthodox variant when the small ball line-up was on the floor, with Rondo staying at the lane weakside after the first drive, playing the same role Dorsey played for Memphis, Garnett rotating to the 4 and Posey to the wing. Very unique offense. I think that we'll be see a lot of this in the coming season if Doc is going to play Pierce at the 4, as he has hinted.
They have the personell to run it decently and it'll help Harris; the problem is that it's hard to figure a NBA team using the DDM as their primary offensive scheme. It wears out the players, very tiring to execute. Anyway, I won't be watching them a lot, I'm a screens type of guy and all those dribble penetrations almost make me dizzy.
Yeah, hard to predict how well they will do. I think playoffs is out of the equation for them (Simmons/Yi is the worse combo of starting forwards in the entire league by a far margin, IMO), but they can improve mightily as the season progresses.
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