One night in Texas in December 2019, as the NBA's analytics era entered full bloom, Rick Carlisle summarized the new order's negative view of a basic basketball play.
Post-ups were once a staple of plodding, inside-out offenses across the league, but by 2019, they'd been declining in frequency for years. Yet that didn't stop the TV commentators that night from wondering why Kristaps Porzingis wasn't playing with his back to the basket more, in the long tradition of elite NBA big men.
In a memorable postgame rant, Carlisle, then Porzingis' coach on the Dallas Mavericks, explained why.