A lot of people have this vision about how basketball is SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED which is why Shaq wasn't really the best because he just "bullies" in the paint, etc.
There's a strong tendency to turn team sports into a morality play. The Right Way to play football is defense and a power running game, The Right Way to play baseball is pitching, defense, small ball, etc. Granted, Larry Brown always used that phrase and a lot of that stuff was just plain right (don't turn the ball over or make sloppy turnovers on offense, stay focused and remember the gameplan on defense), but there's just a lot of crap from blowhard fans and sportswriters.
Inverting The Pyramid, a book about the evolution of soccer tactics, was pretty interesting for me because it showed over and over for the better part of a century how the sports cultures of different countries have freaked out about changes in the style of play from what they were used to or considered proper. Plus it added this nationalistic dimension of everyone fretting that they were going to lose their unique footballing heritage on one hand, or freaking out that they'd be left behind if they couldn't adopt foreign, modern tactics.
So yeah, you don't need a pass-first PG or an offense that starts by dumping it into the low post. The fact that there are multiple strategies and styles that are viable at the championship level is something that should be enjoyed by fans rather than humbugged.
