A few games are not enough for players to familiarize themselves with a system.
If it's a complex system, it might even take an entire season to mesh successfully.
Like the 1989-1990 Chicago Bulls, they spent most of the season adapting to the triangle offense.
By the end of the season, the Bulls couldn't say they had fully mastered the triangle offense.
And within the Bulls, there was always a faction opposed to the triangle offense: that person was Michael Jordan.
The conflicts between Jordan and role players, the differences between Jordan and the coaching philosophy, and the role players' execution of the triangle offense, all made it not so easy for the Bulls to fully implement this system.
The Trail Blazers didn't have the first two problems, as Ah Gan appreciated the Princeton System, and philosophically, he and Bobby Beelman were very well aligned—they had been collaborating for ten years and understood each other very well.
