Reggie-ball was the old style, work it around till you found THE shot you wanted. When Hurley came in, and Oates and Whitesell have kept this going, it's the modern idea of: up-tempo, hit them in transition, so you take way more shots than the other team, even if you miss a lot of them, statistically it works out better. And either go for layups (take turns driving to the net) or take 3's. It makes for a lot of ugly basketball at times; it absolutely BURIES opponents when you're shooting well; it's hard to set up rebounders underneath sometimes; when it works it's fast and entertaining. I think they are playing the way the style dictates. But yeah, I hear you, the team has been built around this style for years. I'm not saying go back to what it was before (this year's team plays that higher tempo a LOT better than the past couple years did). I will say that I love a good 2 point jump shot, beat that guy on the perimeter and instead of driving all the way, drain that 2. Then they have to guard you everywhere on the court. Driving to the net and getting fouled works too...provided you're hitting your foul shots.
Foster seems best at going to the net, he hasn't been consistent from outside. Powell is all over the place with his intensity, in the end he has points and steals but there's an element of brute force about his game. I feel like Curtis is the one that can hit from anywhere - three's, jumpers, layups, floaters (he doesn't have the height for a classic Yassin Idbihi hook shot though 🙂 ).
Last night, I think the outside shooting wasn't working, and it made them have to rely on driving to the net. Since they were drawing lots of fouls (THREE guys on the Deadhawks fouled out), this would've worked if they could've made their foul shots.