#64: Building modern offenses around big men | 5 Archetypes

Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Has the big man really gone away on offense? Or have they just moved beyond the post up? In this episode, I lay out ways to build strong offenses around five different archetypes of modern big men, including huge playoff stars like Anthony Davis and Nikola Jokic. And what does this mean for drafting big man prospects going forward? Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball. Check out the $1/month offer (through Oct. 9) of the Athletic at http://www.theathletic.com/thinkingbasketball --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.
0:07.0	Welcome back to another episode. I guess technically what will likely be the final
0:15.8	episode of the incredibly long 2020 season. You know, 2020, the calendar year has felt like about nine years with all of the things,
0:26.0	the twists and turns in the world that have gone on.
0:29.2	And basketball, of course, this season kicked off, I think technically last summer, right?
0:35.0	And then of course started and and played pre-season basketball
0:40.0	in the regular season at this point like over a year ago but as of
0:46.1	recording this Lakers ahead of the heat to nothing in the finals Miami struggling
0:50.9	with injuries but today's episode is all about something that I think has been brewing throughout the playoffs has been on my mind and that is the big man and specifically
1:02.0	building modern offenses around the big man.
1:07.0	This is something that used to be all the rage and basketball. You know, it was, you had to have a big guy to win.
1:16.8	That was sort of the thinking for years. Michael Jordan in part was one of the
1:22.2	players who helped break that mold to a certain degree
1:25.8	and now of course everyone thinks you have to play like Jordan to win and that's a whole separate
1:30.1	thing that hopefully we'll get into the history of that a little bit more to a
1:35.3	certain degree in the Greatest Peak series that's coming during the off season.
1:41.5	If you missed it there's a trailer up on the thinking basketball
1:44.5	YouTube channel, quick trailer just teasing this series.
1:48.6	It's going to be a multi-part series
1:50.9	that will run through the off season.
1:53.6	I don't have an exact launch date yet.
1:56.2	That's still to be determined all kinds of things
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