Former NBA players and longtime fans complaining about the lack of offensive variety in today’s league has always been a major part of the sport’s discourse, and one that seemingly becomes more pervasive each year. Critics call the NBA a copycat league, where one team figures out an advantageous offensive scheme or action, and the rest of the teams follow suit and start running the same thing.
There certainly is some truth to that — basketball teams have always liberally stolen from each other’s most-effective schemes, as organizations in all sports do. But if you actually look around the league, there’s more variation than there’s ever been. The
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