DENVER – One of Elston Turner's first assistant coaching jobs in the NBA was with Portland in the late 1990s, and when he was with the Trail Blazers, his teams preferred to trap or blitz against pick and rolls.
When the current Timberwolves assistant got to Sacramento a few years later, he figured he would bring that blitzing style to the Kings, who had taller players like Vlade Divac and Chris Webber. They quickly told him otherwise.
"They're looking at me like I'm crazy," Turner said. "They're saying, 'You want me to go out there and trap and run all the way back to the rim?