The\u00a0triangle offense<\/b>\u00a0is an offensive strategy used in\u00a0basketball. Its basic ideas were initially established by\u00a0Hall of Fame\u00a0coach\u00a0Sam Barry\u00a0at the\u00a0University of Southern California. His system was further developed by former\u00a0Houston Rockets\u00a0and\u00a0Kansas State University\u00a0basketball head coach\u00a0Tex Winter, who played for Barry in the late 1940s. Winter later served as assistant coach for the\u00a0Chicago Bulls\u00a0in the 1980s and 1990s and for the\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u00a0in the 2000s, mostly under head coach\u00a0Phil Jackson.<\/p>\n
The system’s most important feature is the sideline triangle created by the\u00a0center, who stands at the\u00a0low post, the\u00a0forward\u00a0at the wing, and the\u00a0guard\u00a0at the\u00a0corner. The team’s other guard stands at the top of the\u00a0key\u00a0and the weak-side forward is on the weak-side\u00a0high post\u2014together forming the “two-man game”. The goal of the offense is to fill those five spots, which creates good spacing between players and allows each one to pass to four teammates. Every pass and cut has a purpose and everything is dictated by the defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The\u00a0triangle offense\u00a0is an offensive strategy used in\u00a0basketball. Its basic ideas were initially established by\u00a0Hall of Fame\u00a0coach\u00a0Sam Barry\u00a0at the\u00a0University of Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[749],"tags":[177,664],"yoast_head":"\n