The 2021 NBA All-Mean-Stars
The All-Star Game is three days away. I guess it's happening(?). I didn’t vote, but if I had, and had my vote, in some alternate dimension, mattered, I would have profoundly skewed the results. I [...]
Thaddeus Young, Renaissance Man
What makes a Renaissance? Does one possess some knowledge of what the future beholds or is one simply at the right place at the right time? Did being a computer genius mean Bill Gates was [...]
Can Brooklyn Get to the Title by Playing Historic Offense?
When watching basketball, you always know when something special is happening on the court. For me, an indicator of this is goosebumps, showing me that I am witnessing something that is historic, like Kobe's last [...]
The Timothy John McConnell Experience
More and more the NBA’s popularity is driven by highlights and superstars. Blame NBA marketing. Blame social media. Blame our dying attention spans. Whatever. I am not here to judge. The point is, that the [...]
The All-Interesting-Analytics Team
Maybe the wonders of analytics feel overblown. Maybe it's because Moneyball references get shoved down sports fans’ throats by every General Manager justifying their lackluster free agent offseason. Or maybe it's because we can’t bear [...]
Keeping Stats in Practice: Good or Bad?
A basketball team can only be good in games if the players are good in practice. Like for everything in life, preparation for players and coaches is key to building a successful team. People usually [...]
Keeping Stats by Paper? Time to Add Technology!
Taking stats is the unglorified part of the basketball world. People usually focus on what is happening on the court, but the true heroes that improved the game we love so much, are the men [...]
Art of Coaching I: Pedagogy
Coaching is a multi-dimensional job that requires a person to be good in multiple skills. Great coaches try to improve and never stop expanding their expertise in order to be better in their profession. In [...]
Intuition vs. Statistics->When to Make a Change
One of the main dilemmas coaches face every day is when to put their fist down and make a decision. This is a particularly tricky thing to do as adjustments are usually made during the [...]
Saving Coaches’ Time
Coaching is a stressful job. There is a lot of areas of information that coaches need to balance inside their head, analyze them, and make the right decision. They need to be on top of [...]