By now everyone is familiar with the mythos of the Milwaukee Bucks and their player personnel. You could almost hear the hushed tones as NBA fans far and wide discussed Jason Kidd’s famous hyper-aggressive, trapping schemes. These were designed to create turnovers and unleash their multi-armed fast break Kraken headlined by Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Normally, playing this aggressively will be beaten by ball rotation, but the Bucks bet big on their long players protecting the weak side by creating an appendage bramble patch that wouldn’t allow the ball to get there quickly. It would be too dangerous to fire a release pass through the middle of the floor with the big Bucks wings ready to snare it, so teams would have to sky these cross court passes high above their grasp.