In his many decades in the game, Kazuo Nakamura tinkered with an up-tempo style of basketball he wanted his teams to play. And in recent years, it often involved several of his players taking quick 3-point shots as often as possible.
Nakamura's run-and-gun style produced consecutive bj-league championships in 2009-10 and 2010-11, when the inimitable bench boss led the Hamamatsu Higashishimikawa Phoenix. He then took his system to his hometown Akita Northern Happinets for the 2011-12 campaign.
This season, Nakamura's Happinets employed a lethal offensive combination of power and finesse: high-scoring options on the perimeter and in the paint.