What are the best distro's to use for the triangle, I always ran motion, but took over a team with triangle, and I would like some help setting distros.

"What are the best distros to use for the triangle?"

What does that even mean?  It completely depends on your team.  I think you can afford to stratify your distros a little more in the triangle.  Motion is significantly more effective when all the players on the court can score at least a little bit, particularly your starters.  Triangle will let you have 1 guy who doesn't shoot much at all if you want to sneak a defensive specialist or pure PG into the starting lineup.  In other words, there's no pressure to put at least a few points of distro on each of your starters; if you want to give a guy 1 or 2 and put him in the starting lineup even though your 2 studs are both at 20+ go for it.  Shouldn't hurt you unless you face a lot of double-teams, and those tend to backfire anyway.

In your case you probably should really load up on the distros on your guards and SF and not give much to those bigs.  A dominant big can really thrive in the triangle, but you don't have the right guy for it.  Incidentally, I feel like if there is a "best offense" right now it's probably the triangle, but I don't really think it's more than very marginally superior to anything else if at all.

Posted by dahsdebater on 2/7/2011 8:27:00 PM (view original):
In your case you probably should really load up on the distros on your guards and SF and not give much to those bigs.  A dominant big can really thrive in the triangle, but you don't have the right guy for it.  Incidentally, I feel like if there is a "best offense" right now it's probably the triangle, but I don't really think it's more than very marginally superior to anything else if at all.

thanks... thats what i was thinking, but I wanted a second opinion i guess

If you think you are going to run a triangle that leans heavily on two people...you are in for a rude wake up call.

Posted by tampababe67 on 2/8/2011 5:14:00 PM (view original):
If you think you are going to run a triangle that leans heavily on two people...you are in for a rude wake up call.

i don't find this to be the case. sure, 3 guys just as talented as the 2 would be better (like in any offense). but triangle is very effective for situations when you only have 2 primary offense options on the court at a time.

Posted by gillispie on 2/8/2011 11:31:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tampababe67 on 2/8/2011 5:14:00 PM (view original):
If you think you are going to run a triangle that leans heavily on two people...you are in for a rude wake up call.

i don't find this to be the case. sure, 3 guys just as talented as the 2 would be better (like in any offense). but triangle is very effective for situations when you only have 2 primary offense options on the court at a time.

I kind of do this. I have 2 big backcourt scorers and 2 mediocre bigs. I stack the 2 backcourt as #1 and #2 in the SG slot, so they play the whole game at SG. Both guys are avg near 19 ppg with the 2 bigs at 11 ppg. Triangle with inside and out attack is good and doesnt need a deep offensive team like the motion. All my opinion ofc. 

I just don't agree with that at all. The point is to have three go to guys, and two solid guys who you can also count on to score at all times. Playing against a triangle with two obvious guys scoring at all times, is very easy to defend if you have talent close to the team you are playing against. You can look at real life situations where this is clearly seen, all the way up to the Pro level. Will you win games relying on one to two players? Sure, but in my opinion against the top teams, you must have  6-8 guys who you can count to share the scoring to run an elite triangle offense.

Oh, I'm sorry.  I was under the opinion that when he wanted advice on what numerical distribution values to use he was discussing this game.  I'm glad you pointed out he was more interested in what would happen in real life.  Now we're all on the same page!

Posted by tampababe67 on 2/9/2011 12:36:00 AM (view original):
I just don't agree with that at all. The point is to have three go to guys, and two solid guys who you can also count on to score at all times. Playing against a triangle with two obvious guys scoring at all times, is very easy to defend if you have talent close to the team you are playing against. You can look at real life situations where this is clearly seen, all the way up to the Pro level. Will you win games relying on one to two players? Sure, but in my opinion against the top teams, you must have  6-8 guys who you can count to share the scoring to run an elite triangle offense.

you'll have to take that one up with seble. all i can comment on is the reality of the sim engine, which is, you can lean on 2 guys hard per lineup with triangle and still be very successful (including winning championships).

idk if the nba triangle teams have 6-8 guys that can score well. Lakers in the early 2000s were dominant with just shaq and kobe scoring in bunches. Bulls in the 90s were a 2 man show (or one man show) with MJ and Pippen, dialing up 30 and 20 ppg respectively, with toni kukoc doing some 6 man duty. 

Posted by dahsdebater on 2/9/2011 3:15:00 AM (view original):
Oh, I'm sorry.  I was under the opinion that when he wanted advice on what numerical distribution values to use he was discussing this game.  I'm glad you pointed out he was more interested in what would happen in real life.  Now we're all on the same page!

Wow, I must have been really grumpy...

Posted by tampababe67 on 2/9/2011 12:36:00 AM (view original):
I just don't agree with that at all. The point is to have three go to guys, and two solid guys who you can also count on to score at all times. Playing against a triangle with two obvious guys scoring at all times, is very easy to defend if you have talent close to the team you are playing against. You can look at real life situations where this is clearly seen, all the way up to the Pro level. Will you win games relying on one to two players? Sure, but in my opinion against the top teams, you must have  6-8 guys who you can count to share the scoring to run an elite triangle offense.

You're confusing the real-life triangle with the HD triangle.

And really, even in real life it's not particularly true (think Jordan/Pippen on the Bulls w. out a significant third option).