It started, excuse me, earlier in my career and I thought in Europe when I was coaching in Europe, that’s the best way to play and was working. Obviously then you come to the NBA, you have better players to do what I always thought that needed to be done. But again, a big driving force was Shaquille O’Neal was the center in Los Angeles, which is in our division. And we always said among ourselves, you can’t out Shaq Shaq. You can’t just trot somebody out there and think you’re gonna get the best of Shaq. So we had to figure out a way to beat him. And that was to speed the game up, take more 3s and spread them out, and then they give us a chance to win. CHAKRABARTI: That’s so interesting. I had no idea that Shaq was that influential in shaping the way other teams played. D’ANTONI: Yeah. He is actually the cause of the 3-point shot.Source: WBUR
