Which offense most resembles the '02 Kings Princeton offense?

[Chairman7w]

Question for you 2K Vets:

Which offense most resembles the '02 Kings Princeton offense?

[JerzeyReign]

With the Princeton being "unstructured", its hard to replicate in NBA 2K15. Princeton relies a lot on players reading the defense and each other. It starts in a 4-1 - to get guys cutting and moving you'd have to go freelance as your best bet.

Rick Adelman had a corner offense implemented on those early 2000s SAC teams. If you look through the playbook you should see certain plays with CNR near them - they are the Adelman offense influenced plays - most teams in the league run those plays. Kinda resembles the triangle offense. First pass is still made to the wing but instead of the wing dumping it down to the low block he throws it to the big in the pinch post and then sets a down screen for the original ball handler in the corner. The original ball handler comes around the big in the pinch post and either gets the ball (normal action) or the big has the ball on one of the "kill spots" on the court and he can punch in from there. Depending on the defensive look after he comes around the pinch, the offensive player puts serious stress on the defense and with some ball movement all 5 guys touch the ball.

Thats as close as I personally could get to that 02 offense. If you just want an offense with all 5 guys involved, the swing offense is great for that.

Hopefully I helped a little.

[Chairman7w]

Thanks JerzeyReign, that's very helpful. Great post, man.


CNR - will be on the lookout!

[capitolrf]

What I do to replicate the Princeton is use the Swing Motion Freelance Offense with the Utah Jazz playbook. It's not exactly the Princeton, but the principles are the same. The Jazz PB has a lot of Swing & Horns set, along with backdoor/dribble hand-off plays (plays with the word "Give").

It's nice little combination of offenses that should get the results your looking for.