Here is a good link to some of the plays used in Princeton offence
http://www.coachesclipboard.net/PrincetonOffensePlays.html
Its actually really interesting reading these.
The things i feel about Princeton are that:
- It tries to take advantage of your C's good passing vs your opposition C's lack of OD.
- Your PG shouldn't necessarily be set to play at PG in offense. OR
- you play two PG's in your front court.
So you could image a 'J. Noah' type C playing as your C. a good 'outside shooting' PF. A good driving SF. And two PG's in your front court.
I believe the idea behind your C shooting more 3's, is that he essentially 'starts' the offense and so there would be more times he would need to pop a 3. If your C had say, Respectable JR, you could imagine that the opposing C wouldn't have very good OD, so the opportunity to shoot more 3's would be higher.
So in BB, I would imagine that the game engine is not complex enough to insert things like screen's, so im not entirely sure how it handles these things. Thoughts anyone?
My anecdotal recollections are that the C doesn't shoot as many threes as you'd like to think he would in that type of offense, but I think you're spot on with the passing from that position being important. I would probably have to go through and do some deep analysis on my games but I definitely recall whichever guy I had at C usually ended up using his passing a lot more (approximately a metric ton of passes to other players who missed jumpers/drives) but the PF was the one of the two more likely to shoot from outside.
Of course, my recollections are likely tainted from watching the games live and saying "why isn't the C shooting more, and why is my SG still chucking it up after starting off 2-15?"
