Mike Brown chalks out a new offensive strategy for the Los Angeles Lakers – NBA Update
The league might be at a standstill due to the ongoing labour dispute, but this has not stopped Mike Brown from going about his business.
The new Los Angeles Lakers head coach has revealed that he is all ready to implement a new offensive strategy next season, whenever that may be. Brown has been working hard with his assistants, John Kuester, Chuck Person and Quin
Snyder, over the course of summer in order to devise a new plan and the hard work seems to have borne fruit.
"We've been able to go through from Point A to Point Z what we want to do offensively," Brown told the Los Angeles Times. "We've put our offensive book together so that we're always on the same page. We're about two-thirds the
way done with our defensive book."
The former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach was given the main job at Los Angeles after Phil Jackson retired. Jackson was a legendary coach, perhaps the best the game has ever seen, so filling his shoes is never going to be an easy
task.
Brown though does have some experience and he has taken the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals. He also possessed many attributes that the Lakers front office was looking for to revive a team that showed signs of decline last season.
Once installed, Brown went straight to work and now believes he is getting to a point where he can guide the team with ease and authority.
Jackson was famed for his triangle offense, which brought the Los Angeles Lakers great success over the years. It also allowed super star shooting guard Kobe Bryant to do pretty much whatever he liked, out on the court. That system
will change under the new coach though, Mike confirmed.
"At the start of the shot clock, it will be 'four out, one in,' meaning that if we get the ball down the floor quick enough, we'll have four guys along the perimeter and one of our bigs in the low post," he said. "If the ball does
go in at an early point in the shot clock, hopefully that big will have a chance to go to work without the double team."
Brown’s offensive strategy is clearly designed to get the best out of the two talented big guys at the Lakers disposal, Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol. He was with the San Antonio Spurs as an assistant in their “Two Towers” era of
Tim Duncan and David Robinson, and will be looking to draw on that experience in order to mould his team’s offense.
However what isn’t so far clear is where Kobe falls in this equation. The super star is known to do his own thing on the court, but it isn’t clear if he would be afforded the freedom to do so in the new setup.
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