Let's say in a base offense you can put up respectable in outside and inside scoring. If you go to an inside offense, this brings your outside scoring down to a high mediocre or a low average, but pushes your inside offense up to maybe prominent. The trouble is, less than half your shots will actually be inside shots. The rest of your shots will be modified with your crappy outside scoring rating. Many more will be driving shots for your guards - which is usually not good.
Now, if you go outside instead, let's say you can now put up a proficient outside scoring. The inside scoring rating is no big deal - you only get 20-25% of your shots on the inside. Maybe another 20-25% are 3s, 20-25% long jumpers and 20-25% short jumpers. That means 75-80% of the shots are using your great outside scoring rating.
So, to sum up, when you are talking about teams that can post a respectable or higher outside d rating:
man is the new 2-3 zone
push the ball is the new look inside
patient is the new low post
This is one of the areas where i still dont know how the GE works. If I choose to go outside will I:
1. recive a boost to my players JS, JR and handling in the individual matchup determing the probability of making that shot
2. skew the randomness of the shot (like TIE and CT)
3. only effect the pace and the kind of shots taken
4. recive some other kind of bonus