Golden State Warriors: Why the team’s motion offense is better than isolation
Los Angeles Lakers
The Lakers under Phil Jackson ran Tex Winter’s legendary ‘Triangle Offense’. This was a type of motion offense designed to get open looks from all over the floor. They, of course, had a very good isolation player in Kobe Bryant, who they often got the ball to in clutch situations.
The triangle was such an intelligent offensive scheme that teams still use the principles from it in today’s NBA despite going completely out of fashion as a concept.
The main reason given for its disappearance from the current state of basketball is that it is difficult to get three-pointers out of the pure triangle offense.
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However, to show you how the triangle is still happening in the NBA today, click here to see a fantastic video showing its uses today.
Getting back to the Lakers, they relied a lot on the triangle, just like Michael Jordan did with his Chicago Bulls teams. However, when it came to the last couple of rounds of the playoffs, the games got tighter and so the isolation plays were more and more frequent.
Even though Bryant had a lot of isolations at the end of games, he still used the triangle action to get open and receive the ball.
Motion-to-Isolation Spectrum Rating: 35