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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3948758, member: 833"] The corner 3 creates a few problems for the offense in a dynamic analysis. First, the corner 3 is easier to defend than a 3 at the wing or the top because baseline is easy to cut off. Second, anyone in the corner is out of the play for a rebound. Third, anyone in the corner is as far away from defending their own hoop as a person can be and still be on the court. Spoelstra looked like a genius when he threw the stretch 2-3 at Milwaukee and Boston in the playoffs last year. Now you can see middle school AAU coaches do it in local tournaments all over the country. A stretch 2-3 turns the corner 3 into a contested shot every time, and speeds up the defense to offense transition, leaving the corner shooters in the dust. A stretch 2-3 does allow for open mid-range shots, and isolates the middle of the zone 1-on-1 if the offense wants it, but analytics don't allow for those shots so the offense plays right into what the defense wants it to do. Hurley's man-to-man defense plays a lot like those stretch 2-3's. He sells out to defend the perimeter and protects the hoop, but the middle is wide open against our defense. How many teams really took advantage of it? A dynamic analysis would argue that if the opposing defense is selling out to stop the 3 then the 3 is not such a great shot against that defense, but you almost never see that. Most teams just take more contested 3's. [/QUOTE]