Small Ball, Big Ball, Pinnacle of the Forbidden City!

After Lambis joined the Lakers, Harris showed him plenty of respect and gave him considerable authority.

Then, what happened turned out to be quite different from what everyone, including Sun Hao, had imagined.

Originally, the Lakers had wanted Lambis to help fill in the details of the Triangle Offense.

In theory, Harris had already mastered most of it, and Sun Hao and Yao Ming executed it well enough. It was just that some finer points still needed work.

Those details were things only people who had studied the system for a long time or actually used the Triangle Offense would know.

Lambis was exactly the man they had been looking for.

But once he got to work, Lambis did not do that. Instead, he reduced Yao Ming and Sun Hao's share of the Triangle Offense, gave the role players more offensive responsibility, and increased their involvement!

That left many people confused.

It felt a little too much like egalitarianism.

But trying to spread things evenly on a team with Sun Hao and Yao Ming—wasn't that like throwing away watermelons to pick up sesame seeds?

Still, Lambis offered his own explanation.

After his failed attempt at implementing the Triangle Offense with the Timberwolves, he discovered that the system's strengths and weaknesses were both obvious.

Its strength was that it could maximize the abilities of superstars.

Its weakness was that it depended too heavily on superstars.

So when unexpected situations arose—injuries, fouls, fatigue, and other factors—if the superstar could not play in crunch time, the team could easily lose.

Based on that realization, he wanted to increase the role players' involvement so those situations could be avoided.

The explanation sounded reasonable, especially since it fit the Lakers' current situation.

Yao Ming had only recently returned from injury. Letting him play a little