...the Grizzlies had become something of a science experiment this season, offering glimpses at how several radical offensive concepts from Europe, and spacing principles found in hockey and soccer, would work in the NBA...

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Whatever the merits of the Wheel offence in the Association turn out to be, this is the cross-fertilization that all sports need. North American professional hockey was revolutionized when NHL all-stars competed against and almost lost the Summit Series against the Soviets in 1972. Mike Gottfried experimented with Kentucky basketball's wholesale substitution platoon system in Pitt football in the 1980's. "Celtics" head coach Joe Mazzulla went to Manchester to talk to City's Pep Guardiola about tiki-taka. I give Memphis the highest marks for going to St. Joseph's College, Maine, and to Europe for the Wheel. Sports would benefit from a formal forum where ideas are proposed, exchanged, critiqued and peer-reviewed.