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Post by lou on Mar 7, 2017 16:03:05 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Mar 7, 2017 16:24:09 GMT -5
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Post by lou on Mar 7, 2017 16:37:18 GMT -5
NBA teams play the way Carril always believed the game should be played because they have data that proves it works. But that information wasn’t available when Carril was coaching. And others were curious about Princeton’s unusual style. Carill still recalls one clinic when former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson cornered him to ask why Princeton only seemed to shoot high-percentage, highly efficient shots: 3-pointers and layups. “We didn’t have that in-between shot,” Carril said.
They also didn’t have the pace of today’s NBA. That’s the big difference between Princeton and its descendants. NBA teams push the tempo. Princeton squashed it.
But even now, when the league is faster and more athletic than ever, the principles of the Princeton offense are plain to see. They been adapted by the current generation and amplified for the modern game.
After the Princeton bucket [in the ’96 game vs UCLA], the television cameras panned to the shocked UCLA bench, and they found the perfect shot: a player chewing his shirt in disbelief.
Many years later, as the NBA was emerging from its age of isolation offense, that player was hired by a front office. He happened to build a team that shares the ball, stretches the floor, switches positions and shoots an enormous amount of 3-pointers. His name is Bob Myers, and he’s the general manager of the Golden State Warriors.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 7, 2017 18:51:56 GMT -5
Backcourt of that Princeton team is now coaching: Sydney Johnson of Fairfield and Mitch Henderson at Princeton
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