Defending P&R, Yao Stay Home

plutoblue11 · Oct 9, 2007

poprocks said:

I think Phil Jackson is a offensive and defensive genius when it comes to basketball.

Defense

By switching up the defenses it confuses the opposing teams. His transition defense was very tight because he'd try to trap guards in the corner. If a guard or forward got the ball near the boundaries, there'd be two players on him (trap). They played the passing lanes tight too and denied the ball. It took the other team out of their offensive rhythm. Jackson had his teams played some zone, some man to man, some diamond and one and some full court press and even more trapping. I remember seeing this on Sports Center a long time ago and they showed how the Bulls were spot on defense every time down the floor. They killed opposing teams with their pressing trapping active defenses.

Offense

The Triangle Offense. It was made for players like Kobe and Jordan. That offense used a lot of pick and rolls with motion similar to what Adelman is running. It overloaded one side of the floor and allowed a player like Jordan to take advantage of it. The pick and roll came sideways from either side of the court. Most pick and rolls are run from the key or near the foul line and vertically. I would say that the pick and roll of the triangle with it's motion is very similar to Adelman's.

Would it be hard to play the Van Gundy defense with the triangle offensive set? I think it would because Van Gundy's defensive sets were all predicated on offensive court spacing where players would be able to run back to cover their area defensively as a unit. With the triangle offense, the players would also be not be in the same place every time down the floor which is why I think Jackson put in that full court pressing defense emphasizing the traps. But Phil Jackson went further than that, he kept switching up the defensive looks which kept other teams from ever getting into an offensive rhythm. Very nice tactics when you think about it.
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I'd hold the word *genius* for Phil...but he was great coach. Jimmy Rodgers was there defensive maestro, Triangle was intiated by Tex Winters.

The Bulls *specialized* in the defense, even more so than the Pistons of 80s, I thought Pistons where more of a kinda black and blue defense sorta like the Old Raiders (the rough and bloody type game).....while Bulls where more of a modern day Patriots-Belichick type defense on steroids. Sorta like if you gave Belichick ....Reggie White, Ray Lewis, Deion Sanders, Warren Sapp, Aeneas Williams, Derrick Brooks, and Ronnie Lot all on the same team (defense).

You've got the most talented players in league and who also happened to best defensively along with a guru defensive assistant who also was coach.

that's killer....even in this day of age....I think they could shut down most teams offenses, even the better teams like Mavs and Suns.

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