When we detailed Sacramento Kings coach Keith Smart's obsession with game tape last week , the focus was mainly on the shockingly-poor defensive work turned in by his Kings last season, a season that Smart estimated less than one half of one percent of his team's defensive possessions were fielded with all five players in proper defensive position. A lesser anecdote, in Ailene Voisin's feature on Smart , discussed his recent acquisition of decades' worth of old basketball DVDs, and how he spent the summer endlessly clicking through team after team in order to build up a pretty significant basketball cranium a few decades in the making. For the Kings' newest wrinkle, Smart is looking all the way back to the 1943 Harlem Globetrotters; a team that was running a sound five-man system 21 years before Smart was even born. According to Keith, via the Sacramento Bee , he'll be installing a triangle offense inside the Kings' repertoire based on a clip he found off of one of those DVDs purchased over the summer. From the Bee : "I was looking at a video from 1943," Smart said. "The Harlem Globetrotters were playing over in Europe, and I got a chance to see — when you get beyond all the theatrics the Globetrotters did — they were technically in a situation where they were in a low-post triangle action." Smart won't schedule the Washington Generals or ask any of his players to dump confetti on an official, but that triangle action will be a part of what he adds to the Kings this season.
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