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#70: Dave DuFour season preview 2021
The Athletic's Dave DuFour returns for our semi-annual preview episode. It's impossible to top last year's extravaganza, but we take a measured appro…
5 years, 4 months ago
#69: What we don't see, we don't measure | What to look for when watching?
What should we look for when we watch games? How does our basketball concepts influence what stats we produce and what we're interested in measuring?…
5 years, 4 months ago
#68: Klay & Golden State, Trade Assessments
I discuss Golden State's future outlook with Klay Thompson's injury and Steph Curry's return, along with the new Bucks roster after trading for Jrue …
5 years, 5 months ago
#67: The Top 10 passers in the NBA
Who are the best passers in the NBA? In this episode I dive in to discuss the game's best passers and the difficulty in balanced a variety of strengt…
5 years, 5 months ago
#66: The End of the First Option
I try to take down the idea of the “first option” and replace it with a new framework for thinking about player hierarchies. Also thoughts on the Lak…
5 years, 6 months ago
#65: Seth Partnow | Value vs. goodness, defensive versatility & 2-way players
Former Bucks Director of Analytics and Athletic writer Seth Partnow joins to discuss his upcoming book, The Finals MVP, defensive versatility in the …
5 years, 6 months ago
#64: Building modern offenses around big men | 5 Archetypes
Has the big man really gone away on offense? Or have they just moved beyond the post up? In this episode, I lay out ways to build strong offenses aro…
5 years, 6 months ago
#63: The Big Bubble lesson? Evaluating small samples...
There are lots of takeaways from the bubble, but is the biggest lesson how much we struggle with evaluating players/teams in small sample seasons? Wi…
5 years, 6 months ago
#62: Nuggets Duo, Heat Zone & history's least scalable player
I talk Nuggets and how they match up with the Lakers, get into the Heat-Celtics clash, but before that look at the All-NBA teams and whether this yea…
5 years, 7 months ago
#61 Backwards Basketball | Giannis, Siakam and our playoff narratives
In a meandering free association exercise, I explore some of the new playoff narratives developing in the social media age – how big are “capital-M” …
5 years, 7 months ago