How cool is it to have a #basketball strategy based on triangles? 

Let’s look at how championship-winning basketball teams used triangles in our story #45.

#Triangle Offense: 

The triangle offense is an offensive strategy used in basketball. Its basic ideas were initially established by Hall of Fame coach Sam Barry and was further developed by Tex Winter. 

Winter later served as an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls in the 1980s-90s and for the LA Lakers in the 2000s, mostly under head coach Phil Jackson.

As seen from the image, the triangle offense strategy places all five players in a complex arrangement design, allowing them an array of scoring opportunities. 

 

Three players form the core of the triangle offense by creating the sideline triangle on the strong side of the basketball court, or the side of the floor where the ball is in play. The other two players position themselves on the weak side of the court, where the ball is not in play, to form the two-person game.

 

The players’ positions on the floor create three triangles which, with proper spacing, allow the offense to move freely across the basketball court and control ball movement while exercising multiple scoring opportunities from every angle.

 

Well, math does win you something in sports as well, right?!

Sources:

<1> Basketball Offense - The Triangle Offense from the Coach’s Clipboard.

<2> Triangle Offense in Basketball: How the Triangle Offense Works by Masterclass.

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