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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Um, that’s not how the NBA works anymore and hasn’t been for like 15 years.
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I'm only referring to (typically) the last possession, where the only "play" is to give it to your best player and let him try to create - without any involvement from his teammates - but more often than not it seems to be a difficult fadeaway. I'm not simply suggesting that teams should pound the ball until they can feed Jabbar for a skyhook
And I have no problem with inbounding to Tatum or Durant and letting them do their one-on-one thing if they have a point guard or center attempting to guard them (or any other mismatch). I'm referring to plays with no mismatch, zero ball-movement, zero involvement with any of the other four offensive players, that essentially ends with a difficult shot. That's not typically what you run during the rest of the game, so why - other than hubris - is it SOP at the end of games?