So instead, we’ll judge teams on terms that any sports fan will intuitively understand: good and bad.Ī good team is: talented balanced overpowering.Ī bad team is: flawed inexperienced miscast.Ī little reductive, sure, but generalizing is pretty much the point. Yet when we’re talking about drop coverage and turnaround jumpers, good and evil seems like a bit of a stretch. The first axis we’ll keep.Ī lawful team is: organized predictable system-driven.Ī chaotic team is: versatile free-flowing erratic. Comparing those buckets can tell us a lot about the landscape of the league-from what’s valued and why to what the best and worst teams tend to gravitate toward.Ī classic alignment chart plots its entries on a spectrum from lawful to chaotic, and from good to evil. Assigning a team into a certain category helps us understand what it has in common with every other team in the same bucket. It’s a new take on a classic premise if we can learn something about the universe by finding the alignment of Tool lyrics, KitchenAid stand mixers, and assorted Brad Pitts, why would we stop at NBA teams? There’s a value in taxonomy.
Welcome to the NBA Alignment Chart-your guide to the playing style of every team for the 2022-23 NBA season. And they’re introducing themselves to us right now, as we speak, through the way they play. The arrival of a new NBA season means there are 30 teams to get to know all over again, each with their own evolving identities. It plays out through what schemes a team runs, how its players work together (or don’t), and-maybe most clearly-what happens when shit really hits the fan. It can change with a trade or a big-time signing it can transform with a coaching hire, or even just through a few tough, losing months.
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