Is this the NBA's next offensive trend?

[watto84]

Hi All,


Latest post is up where I look at the effectiveness of sending the guard to set a "guard to guard on-ball screen", instead of sending the traditional big man. Surprisingly good results and in the new position-less world of NBA lineups we are going to start seeing this more often and defenses aren't ready for it.


check it out at www.zigzaganalytics.com

[Crow]

Have you checked small screens for bigs (certain bigs) or bigs for bigs?

[watto84]

No i didn't get into that detail, would be interesting, but enters a grey area of defining a "big". Would be useful for guys like Lebron, Durant, Melo etc, I doubt we are going to see someone like Andre Drummond getting an on-ball screen on the perimeter well i hope we don't

I came up with the idea for my post from watching Klay set numerous on-ball screens for Steph in the finals against Cleveland which gave them headaches.

Beverley-Harden combo makes sense as the defense is just focused on Harden.

Going through the leagues guard combos there are heaps that you think would give defenses problems, to name a few:

Lillard-McCollum
Wall-Beal
Paul-Reddick

[Nate]

No i didn't get into that detail, would be interesting, but enters a grey area of defining a "big"....

Maybe it would make more sense to look at the direction the pick is coming from, rather than the player that's setting it.