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So recently, I read this from Adam Silver. He complained about the NBA media not talking enough about tactical aspects of the game:

“I think where we can all do a better job, and again I’m not just pointing to the media here, is talking more about the game. My frustration a bit, I think sometimes the color commentary in our games gets reduced to, ‘this team wanted it more’ or ‘this team tried harder.'”

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Said Silver: “There’s really complex defenses, what is the offense like? Why is this team losing the way they are? Why is this team successful? Explain what the pick and roll is … explain what’s happening on the court.”

Reductive analysis reinforces the idea that basketball is just a game of individuals and athletic feats. Silver believes that in order to raise interest in every team every night, the discussion needs to be more granular and more celebratory.

“There is this sense (in football) where the coaches are viewed as these field generals, going out there with these complex schemes,” Silver told Redick, who works as an NBA analyst at ESPN. “Then in basketball, it’s just about athleticism. That somehow the coach’s job is just to get the guys to play hard. Rather than … these incredibly sophisticated defenses and offenses.”

That leads me to the question: How much is the success in Basketball really about tactics/strategy and how much is it about individual quality? Can coaches in the NFL (or in other sports) on average do more to win their team games primarily on good tactics and good coaching than coaches in NBA? Or are those sports similar in terms of how much influence a coach can have?

Is the NFL more about collective strategy and the NBA more about individual athleticism/skills?

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[–] hunterwolves18@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I totally agree with Silver, NBA media cover so little strategies and actual aspects of the game and are more interested on drama or making rankings or tier lists, and it's a shame cause there's so much strategy on a single basketball game.

Basketball coaches have a lot of impact on trying to figure out the best lineup to counter the opponent and find the right schemes before a single game and then adjust in real time. Sometimes tho, especially in NBA, when you have a team with 3-4 "stars" and mediocre players, coaches have to find a compromise between managing their ego and playing "the right way", and sometimes it's a game of individuals trying to put the ball inside the basketball.

Idk about the NFL, but basketball coaches have way more impact than soccer coaches, mostly because there are more pauses during the game and it's more difficult to manage 11 players in a bigger field in real time and also because basketball games are mostly about two phases (offense and defense) which repeat themselves for like 100 times really similar between each other and it's easier to make adjustments

[–] LostNPC01@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I think sometime it's also because of the fan base. For example I tried to ask in the spurs sub where it was relevant what was the rationale for Sochan PG experience instead of making him play PF. I got downvoted and got answer like "you don't need to know". "Pop won't bother to answer that". Sheez...