As the NBA regular season marathon reaches the quarter-way mark, we’ve seen enough to start to draw certain conclusions. Statistics begin to normalize as sample sizes grow and hot streaks fade into the background. We can now discuss year-long trends without having to put large caveats. And for the film nerds, we finally have enough material to start to unpack the way the coaching staff is installing schemes on both ends of the floor.
This is important, because there has been an interesting trend developing with the offensive playcalling for this team, and it’s interesting for a couple of reasons.