thoughts on the celtics-sixers

[Kim Malo]

At 07:24 PM 4/1/2007, Noah Evans wrote:
>A quick note on passing to perkins at the top of the 3 point line:
>
>Teams with offensively challenged centers do that a lot. Rather than
>having a defensive center clog the lane and get in the way of drivers
>and more competent post players the center initiates the offense
>giving the other players more time to operate. It could also provide
>advantages for a slower center getting back in case of turnovers and
>crashing the boards, but I'm not familiar with the NBA theory. Greg
>Ostertag and Georghe Muresan were used a lot in this way.

Just to fine tune your point about offensively challenged - Perk also 
happens to be a much better passer than he is shooter (and a better 
passer per se than I expected him to be), making it make even better 
sense to have him out where he will be passing rather than shooting. 
Especially since he's also one of the very few players on our team 
who isn't going to think shoot at that spot, thus further encouraging 
ball movement - a major issue with this team. My only issue with it 
is that it can leave him too often out of position for offensive boards.

Kim