Well...this looks good! I prefer the feels and the music of basketball, the rhythm and the surprises over the mathematics and the predictions. Basketball Beyond Paper focus on applying the science to real people in real time in service of better basketball is a good thing. The NBA has become too much like casino blackjack: you count the cards (threes, contracts, future draft picks) instead of back room poker (playing the hand and the man, having a strategy but knowing when and how to switch tactics.) Statistics and facts are good - for understanding the facts. But applying that data, making adjustments, that jazzy spark of intuition and improvisation... that's basketball.
Well...this looks good! I prefer the feels and the music of basketball, the rhythm and the surprises over the mathematics and the predictions. Basketball Beyond Paper focus on applying the science to real people in real time in service of better basketball is a good thing. The NBA has become too much like casino blackjack: you count the cards (threes, contracts, future draft picks) instead of back room poker (playing the hand and the man, having a strategy but knowing when and how to switch tactics.) Statistics and facts are good - for understanding the facts. But applying that data, making adjustments, that jazzy spark of intuition and improvisation... that's basketball.