Strength Zone

I was going over some John Maxwell notes last night while enjoying the Lakers - Portland NBA game.  John Maxwell is big on staying in your strength zone and continuing to invest in the development of your strengths and its a philosophy that makes sense to me.  Growing up I always heard you've got to work on your weaknesses and turn them into strengths, but now I'm not sold that is the best advice to follow after a certain age.  For example lets say my 3pt shooting skill on a scale of 1-10 is a 7 and my one dribble pull up is a 3.  I would rather put my efforts into taking my 3pt game to a skill level 9 than put in the time it would require to take my pull up game to a 5.  Improving to a skill level 5 doesn't make my pull up jumper a good shot for our team, but taking my 3pt catch and shoot level to a 9 gives our team an elite producer in that phase of the game. 

The media seems to be on Mike Brown for installing a Princeton offense with one of the best pick and roll point guards to ever play the game, but sometimes the media can blow things out of perspective so I went to check out synergy (awesome place for any stat you can think of) and discovered the Lakers offensive possessions have ended with a pick and roll 10% of the time (would have been last in the league last year).  Now I'm not a part of the Lakers program or pretend to know better than Mike Brown what is good for the Lakers, but the situation has made me re-evaluate our offense to make sure I'm putting our players in their strength zone and giving them the best opportunity to be successful.

Does your offense keep players in their strength zone or are you trying to make players fit into your system?