Small ball created sweeping changes throughout the NBA when Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors revolutionized the way professional basketball is played midway through the current decade.
On a much, much smaller scale, Steve Pikiell is using some of those ideas with his Rutgers men’s basketball team. In his second season at the helm in Piscataway, Pikiell invests more minutes in a three-guard, small-ball line-up than he did last season.
Per KenPom, through the final five games of last season, Rutgers used a three-guard line-up of Corey Sanders, Nigel Johnson and Mike Williams in just under nine percent of the Scarlet Knights possessions.