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[QUOTE="007, post: 4584228, member: 393"]
I think you and I have had this discussion before. My apologies upfront for belaboring this point. FWIW, I am certain that JB has never played a traditional 1-3-1. Those rotations are entirely different and much easier to attack. The modification you are talking about is when JB stacked the guards at the top of the 2-3 making the configuration 1-1-3. But the rotations were still based on his version of the 2-3. The guard at the top of the 1-1-3 stack followed the first entry pass to the wing, and the guard in the back of the stack stayed in the middle to deny the high post entry. If the second pass stayed on the strong side, the 2nd guard stayed in the high post area. If the ball was reversed, the 2nd guard rotated out to cover that wing, and the other guard rotated into the high post.

I agree that was an effective change up and caused confusion. I'm not sure why we don't see it more often. I suspect that once it was on tape, other teams realized that it was not a 1-3-1 and continued to create the same 2-3 overloads.
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