Brendan Haywood: NBA teams lost their offensive identity
The former NBA center says college teams still play distinct systems, while pace, spacing and the pick-and-roll have made every NBA offence look the same.
Brendan Haywood says the gap between college and professional basketball in the United States now comes down to one thing: identity on offence.
, pointed to a run of teams that once built their attack around a single, distinct system. The Nets ran the Princeton offence. The Lakers had the triangle. Sacramento worked through Vlade Divac at the elbow. Golden State pushed the pace. In his account, analytics staff have since pulled every franchise toward the same template: pace, spacing, and the pick-and-roll.
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