NBA teams, like those in all professional sports leagues, will always — theoretically, if not in practice — head to where the wins are. If success is found in three-point shooting and positional flexibility, well then every team will gradually drift in that direction. It’s not an exact science, but as we watch more and more teams employ players with specific skill sets, while discarding those without, a pattern emerges.
But then there’s always a team that finds unlikely success going in the other direction.
The last team to effectively do this was the Memphis Grizzlies, circa two to four years ago.