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[mavsluvr]

This would help. But even then I think the coaches need to help the players understand better what to do. I can't imagine that "do what you want" would eventually, naturally, just evolve into effective offense. Even the flow offense has principles and actions to follow, rather than just "do what you want". 

So have the coaches designed a poor offense, are they really saying "do what you want", are they doing a poor job of teaching their system, or is this a reasonable amount of time for a team to take for udnerstanding a new offense?

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LOL!!!! Second time in five minutes that if I had read your post I could have just liked your post rather than posting. :-)

Well, then we wouldn't have had the great pleasure of hearing from you, fif. 

I was listening to some comments about this from Iztok Franko, who I think is a great x's-and-o's observer and who has some familiarity with European basketball, as well as American. 

He puts aside for the moment the issue that the players don't know what to do, since that might be only temporary. Then says he doesn't disagree with the decision to diversify the offense, and understands why they are doing it, but thinks they just don't have the players who are capable of making the new offense sing. 

As an example, he uses DFS. When the Mavs decided they needed another offensive focus and ball handler, trying to make DFS into that was a poor choice, from Iztok's point of view. They would be better off acquiring someone who is well-suited to do the job required. 

Not really a revelation, but another suggestion that you can't just show up at a company of fishermen, announce that they're now going to be accountants, and expect anything good to happen. If you want to have an accounting business, hire some accountants.