Are you interested in the intricacies of the Triangle? (updated)

Wilt · LG Contributor Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 3170

About five years ago, I wrote an article for lakerstalk about the Triangle Offense. I used my old computer today and I noticed that file just sitting there. So I thought I might as well share it again and to help people understand it.

It's a pdf file. 67 pages with 131 diagrams. I can say with confidence that no one else has ever written about the triangle in so much detail, not even Tex Winter in his books. So what you will read describes pretty much every option in the system.

Here's the link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/bm7rtw (you will first see some ad, but you can skip it)

UPDATED LINK with page numbers.

spflakers · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject:

Wilt, impressive. Can we assume you put this thorough package together at a time in your life when you were single?

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Wilt · LG Contributor Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 3170

You'd be right.

I used to spend a lot of time analyzing games. I watched games over and over again, even preseason games. I have a huge library of VHS tapes from the three-peat years.

I am a lot more relaxed today.

ecksor · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject:

wow. thanks! i'd been thinking about getting Tex Winter's book on the triangle to go a little deeper into the subject.

this is awesome
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Pow Gasol · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

very cool, i'll have to download this later when i'm at home. maybe you will be the next coach of the lakers!!

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Wino · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject:

That is pretty cool!! Nice download to have.

Thanks kindly!
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Impressive, thanks.

LakerSanity · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject:

Definitely deserves a sticky.

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Alpha · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

yup, wilt is nutzo

j/p, thanks for sharing wilt

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I'll give it a browse and if it catches my interest, I'll take a further look.
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Alpha · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject:

thisiscrazy · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject:

Thank you Wilt,

That is quite the exhaustive and definitive document on the Triangle.

I started reading it at work and each diagram sparked a video clip in my head of that diagram being ran.

needless to say I had to stop and get back to work.

thanks

LakerSanity · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject:

kaoss128 · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks Wilt!
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abciximab · Starting Rotation Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 288

wow. thanks. i've always been meaning to read up on the triangle, just never got around to it.

koolmo23 · Star Player Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 3955

thanks Wilt

LarryCoon · Site Staff Joined: 11 Aug 2002 Posts: 6598

Nice work. If only Kwame Brown had something like that, he may still be a Laker....

angrypuppy · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 14898

Great work, Wilt.

You've been holding out on us!

lakerdynasty5.0 · Star Player Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 2452

wow wilt, many thanks.. i learnt a lot from the exposition on the triangle.

Hope to hear more from you as the lakers 3peat again!

Mr. EiGhTy-OnE · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject:

lakersfreak · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject:

67 pages?

What pages are Morrison and Brown on?