I don't think people understand what "positionless" basketball is. It's not taking a guard and playing him at the five. It's taking a position and rotating it interchangeably between guys who can play all five positions.
Unless we're cloning LeBron and Giannis, it's not going to work. You're best hope is to find guys who function at their position in a way that complements the other players on the roster. There is a difference between playing small and playing positionless. Playing small is what Oregon does when they play Brooks at the four and Bell at the five. The only college team I've ever seen in my lifetime capable of playing something resembling positionless basketball is '15 Kentucky.
Its a flawed system and a terrible strategy. Especially at the level we are recruiting at right now. It can work for KY when they have a roster full of long athletic monsters like Fox, Monk, Gabriel, Willis etc.
Its no surprise that our player development has been so lacking. Steve Enoch is never going to be able to rotate interchangeably with a 3. Freshman version of Vance Jackson is incapable of interchanging with the 2.
Each of them had a limited set of skills; they weren't capable of doing a lot of things. How about trying to build off of these limited things first before expanding what you ask of them?
We could sort of run this "positionless" system when we had DD, Niels, and Kromah who all had diverse skill sets and were capable of doing a variety of things.
Coaching is identifying what your players are good at and then putting them in position to succeed. You need to build off what the player is good at first. When they get proficient/reliable at that, then you can give them additional responsibilities. Eventually, maybe you can have "position-less" basketball.
But KO cant design a system that forces the players to do things they're not capable of and then supposedly run them out of town when they unsurprisingly don't do it.
