There's no reason to expect a team to play lots of one-on-one ball in its first season together or to expect a team that that does to suddenly stop after the passage of time. If anything, succeeding with a style of play makes it harder to commit to and implement changes (Hi Scott Brooks).

It takes time to learn a complex offense. Blatt is known for having a base in the Princeton offense while adapting to his personnel.

• Kyrie Irving: Byron Scott and Mike Brown both ran Princeton variations

• Kevin Love: Rick Adelman ran a Princeton variation

• Lebron James: basketball genius, dissected Eddie Jordan's Princeton offense in the playoffs three years in a row

• Mozgov: one of his selling points was his pre-existing familiarity with Blatt

It wasn't an unfamiliar system to these guys. It wasn't too complex -- the Princeton is most commonly seen in college. It's not that complicated. -- it just didn't work, the guys didn't like it, and Blatt conceded. He's not the first coach it's happened to and he won't be the last.

And the trope that a good basketball offense is so complicated that it requires many years of collaborative study and chemistry to implement is just untrue --

• The Lebron Heat's offensive shift didn't happen between years 1 and 2. It happened in the middle of a second round series when they were scrambling to adjust to injury.

• The Nuggets didn't miss a beat offensively when they traded away two cornerstones in Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony.

• The Celtics came together this year despite lots of personnel turnover and guys who hadn't played together before.

Etc etc etc. If an offense actually did require multiple seasons to install, it would be doomed to fail in a league where the average contract lasts 3 seasons.