Billy Donovan isn't actually installing a whole new offensive system with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

"For me, it's not so much a whole new offensive system as much as it's concepts," Donovan said. "Putting these guys in concepts. Trying to help them move the floor so they can make plays and have space to play in. But I don't think the concepts those guys are playing in are foreign to them, or they've never seen them before. I just think my job as a coach is to try and help them move the floor."

The Thunder finished last in assists per game in 2012, yet they also reached The Finals.

"New system, new coach," Durant said. "Feels like a new era of basketball.

 

"He's running more sets, I think," Durant said of Donovan's offense compared to Brooks'. "He's put in different packages for guys at different positions. Scotty did a great job of moving the floor and allowing his iso players to make plays, and I think Billy is doing that, too, but it's a little bit different. We're moving around a little bit more, moving from side-to-side a little bit more.

"In Scotty's defense, though, as players, we should have done a better job of producing ourselves -- moving the ball, moving our bodies," Durant said. "[Now], we just get more conscious of it every day, and it's preached to us every day."

 

"I think and feel like my job as a coach is to move the floor for those guys in actions and things that we're doing to help and create some space for them to play in," Donovan said. "I've always been a ball-movement, player-movement coach, where we want to extra pass, want to move the basketball. That said, we also have two of the best one-on-one offensive players in the NBA, so there's a balance on getting them the ball where they can play in some isolations, whether that's in post-ups or on the elbow.

"I don't think it's anything where someone's going to watch something and say, 'Geez, this has never been done before in the NBA.' I don't feel that way at all," he said. "All I'm trying to do is trying to create opportunities for those guys to play in space and to be who they are and put them in positions to make some decisions and reads."