Denver Stiffs · Jul 17, 2020
Positionless basketball: the future, or a waystation?
Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty ImagesPositionless basketball has been the modern NBA dream for several years now. The idea is that everyone can pass and score, and the ball is no longer relegated to the hands of one point guard (who despite the title was far more the point of distribution than the scorer of points). Having a lineup of similarly-sized players allows them all to switch onto more potential opponents, instead of being limited by size. Switching Ty Lawson onto a center didn’t work well 10 years ago and it hasn’t become a better plan in the last decade.