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How David Beats Goliath- question about this article!

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About a year ago I was going off on one of my "Sloan is a genius and knows basketball better than you, so I trust Sloan's opinion more than I trust yours" tirades and someone got fed up. They posted the following link and a link to a wikipedia article about some war game. I don't remember who posted the article, but I was trying to remember the war game. Does anyone remember?

I believe it was 2 generals against the US Army and they used tactics that were "unfair" and destroyed the US Army. It cost the US Army millions of dollars because they put a lot of effort into the war game...ring a bell to anyone?

https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell
 
I don't know what game you are looking for, but that was a very interesting article. It seems to me that the NBA recognizes the power of a defense playing the entire length of the court and has made rules to stop that. I know they were also to speed up the game, but every rule change in the past 20 years has been to favor the offensive player and handicap the defense. Obviously for the most part it is spurred by money. Long drawn out defensive games that ended in a 58 to 52 final score would not attract as many fans as high-flying and high-scoring affairs with score in the hundreds. It seems they could get rid of the 8-second rule and let teams play the length of the court, all within the 24-second shot clock. And get rid of back-court violations. That is stupid at best. Let them use the full length of the court, again within the 24-second time frame to maintain a decent pace. It would be interesting to see how the game would change.
 
Yes, I wasn't directly involved but I believe they "sunk" a carrier with their rag-tag insurgent type force. I worked on ship's self defense systems and we took some serious measures to protect against the tactic they used. We got new training and many weapon systems were upgraded as a result.

Their tactics were far from "unfair." It was something that was entirely possible. Maybe their intimate knowledge of our standard tactics and equipment allowed them to exploit the weakness, but the weakness was there and they potentially saved thousands (maybe a lot more in the grand scheme of things, who knows) of lives from an attack like that in the future.
 
do you remember the name of that war game?

@LogGrad- don't you think the new 8 second rule would make a full court press more useful in the nba?
 
I don't, sorry. I've been searching for info on it but haven't found anything yet. It would have had to have been around '03-'05.
 
JFFR said:
do you remember the name of that war game?

@LogGrad- don't you think the new 8 second rule would make a full court press more useful in the nba?
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Really I think the full-court press is not a viable strategy long-term at the NBA level. They are just too good at breaking it. The only reason they really do it now is hoping to force a turnover because it doesn't get used much and hoping to keep them from advancing the ball (either to get an 8-second violation or to cut time off the shot-clock). I was really thinking more of the offense, allowing them, to use the full length of the court without an "over-and-back" rule and just constrain them to the 24-second clock.
 
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