Grading NBA Teams’ Search for New Identities

November 25th, 2015 by Zach Buckley Leave a reply »
NBA fans, the diehards anyway, don't need uniforms to identify teams. Most have a specific style to them, something that makes them unique in a league where all 30 clubs are pursuing the same goal (though not always on the same schedule).

But those identities are more like fashion trends than permanent traits. Once organizations feel their way is no longer the right one, they can orchestrate wholesale philosophical changes in a single summer.

Several carried that mindset into the 2015 offseason. The Indiana Pacers swapped bully ball for a faster, more dynamic approach. The New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors spent heavily to help their struggling defenses. The Chicago Bulls kept their cast of characters together, but banked on a new coaching mind squeezing more points out of it.

The effects of these modifications could take months or even years to be fully felt. But there's already evidence mounting over how well these new identities are fitting.

We have examined the four situations mentioned above along with three others to see how quickly and effectively they're coming together. Using the stat sheet and the eye test, we're grading c ...

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