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The 3-Point Play: Grizzlies, Heat and Hornets
Welcome to The 3-Point Play, a new semi-regular recurring feature here at HoopChalk. Every so often, I’ll take a quick look at sets from three different teams that have something in common. Rather than...
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Should The Heat Use LeBron As A Pick-and-Roll Screener More Often?
Over the last three-plus seasons, LeBron James has shot 42-78 from the field and drawn 17 shooting fouls when finishing plays as a roll man in the pick-and-roll. He’s registered 1.14 points per play...
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Heroball? Miami Uses Movement To Get A Wide Open Three In Ovetime
In overtime against Toronto, the Miami Heat needed a basket to keep them in the game down by four points. They went to a simple yet effective set that used every one of their big four and led to a...
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Building A Template For How Rudy Gay Can Thrive As A Small Ball Power Forward
I wasn’t a fan of the trade that brought Rudy Gay to Toronto when looking at it from Toronto’s perspective. They won’t be able to build through the draft (too good), they won’t be able to build through...
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Rejecting Ball Screens and Beating the “Down”
Today’s NBA is defined by the ball screen-and-roll. Every team runs several variations of it and has nuanced and still-developing ways of defending it, and games are won and lost on that action and...
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Defending Kevin Durant: A Tale of Two Halves and Styles
Kevin Durant is hard to defend. No, that’s putting it lightly; guarding KD is damn-near impossible. There’s a reason – should he maintain his current pace – that Durant will become just the second...
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Heat BLOB and Bradley Misstep Dooms Celtics
The Miami Heat’s 23rd consecutive win – a 105-103 road victory over the rival Boston Celtics – will be remembered for many reasons. LeBron James’ massive slam on Jason Terry, his game-winning pull-up...
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LeBron James Directing Flow Against the Magic
LeBron James often does things on the basketball court that make it seem as though he is not of this world. LeBron’s preposterous athleticism combined with his outrageous shotmaking ability momentarily...
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Playoff Capsule: Miami Heat
When the super friends joined forces in Miami, most expected their offense to be the primary driving force to the team’s success. As it turned out, they soon received league-wide acclaim for their...
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Why Can LeBron James Shoot Three-Pointers All Of A Sudden?
In 2010-2011, LeBron James connected on 33.0% of his three-point attempts. In 2011-2012, that number jumped to 36.2%. This past regular season, it surged to 40.6%. In his recent piece on Grantland,...
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Team Pick-and-Roll Defense: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Since today’s NBA is such a heavy pick-and-roll league, being able to defend this play effectively has become almost equally as important as being able to run it. MySynergySports.com tracks how...
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Early Impressions of Cleveland’s Offense
We drooled over the idea of the Cavs’ offense from the moment that Woj #WojBombed our Twitter timelines with the news that Kevin Love would be joining LeBron James and Kyrie Irving in Cleveland....
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