However, let's say your team is SLIGHTLY better than your opponent and they play a neutral defense... you would still play Patient over Push The Ball to gain the scoring advantage? PTB seems like the better tactic in my opinion, based on the quote above.
In this situation I would probably not play patient, although there are a lot of factors involved. Home or away? His team's OD rating vs. my offensive flow. If I think that my offensive flow is good enough to combat his OD and I am at home, I might play patient. If his team has a great OD, patient is going to result in increased turnovers and a lot of shots at the end of the shot clock. In a game where I am slightly better I usually try to exploit my offensive advantage. So, if I have a better inside scoring game than his inside defense I would go for an inside tactic and try to play a SF with strong inside skills. If the reverse is true and I have a better outside attack than his OD, I will play motion or Princeton and put a shooter at SF. If I don't see a clear advantage, then PTB is a good way to go.
Especially for newer teams, I think it is important to realize that focused tactics penalize you
more than they help you. By this I mean that, for example, if you play RNG, your outside shooting gets a bump in effectiveness but your inside shooting is weakened by more than your outside game is improved.
Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.