Mark Cuban Observation

Cuban has a number of observations about the Pistons win last night but this one has a lot of resonance with me:

Will NBA announcers always talk in generalities and stereotypes? Doc Rivers was great, but my goodness, could he be any more politically correct? Could he and Al say possibly say things with less substance? I am so tired of hearing about the same 5 topics and no details, such as this team came out with more energy, that team hit the open man. Compare this to football. There isn’t a football fan who can’t name at least 5 or 6 plays that teams run. Can the casual basketball fan name a single play NBA teams run? Do they even know NBA teams call plays almost every possession?

The fan exposure to strategy in the NBA is almost non-existent. If it doesn't have a catchy name like "Hack-A-Shaq" - it doesn't get mentioned. Compare that to football and baseball where the average fan can tell you the general offensive and defensive schemes of the coaches. When the Celtics and Jim O'Brien were at an impass this year - it was mainly due to O'Brien's (really Dick Harter's) defensive scheme of fronting the post which Danny Ainge thought was being exploited by the opposition and was now a detriment. How many NBA writers mentioned this in their articles on O'Brien leaving Boston?