Frowning about a Michigan-raised journalist who covers basketball yet doesnât know that Glen Rice is a One N Glen.
https://twitter.com/JLEdwardsIII/status/1710001552608449006
Letâs go!
Iâm just glad they have an option if Cade Cunningham and Jaden Ivey and Monte Morris and Alec Burks and Marcus Sasser and maybe Ausar Thompson canât go
This thread ⌠
Was literally just reading that and about to download the podcast he referenced with JJ and Mazzula.
âŚdefensive fg% is analytics?
Everything he says in the video is wildly disconnected from what analytics should be at that level. Coryâs thread does a great job of outlining why.
The amazing thing here is that what heâs saying is almost precisely what Joe Morgan said about baseball analytics decades ago (and sparked the semi-famous site)
Itâs not that different than ânumbers made up by computersâ
Regarding Coryâs last tweet, this is a front office that has shown both explicit and implicit disregard for âjump shootingâ and just hired a coach who drove Devin Booker and Kevin Durant to absurd long-two shot profiles at the expense of threes
kind of crazy that the guy writing that site ended up being one of the most significant cultural forces in American life in the 21st century. if heâd spent any longer on that site, we might literally not have Michigan sports on peacock!!
Yeah, a good friend of mine was an extremely minor contributor there, he was college friends with them - theyâre all tv writers, another guy from that site was the creator of the Asiz Ansari show Master of None
the volume of screenwriting-adjacent folks on this forum continues to surprise
Lol
There is a one episode character on Parks and Rec (a maintenance guy I think) named for me.
I had an agent in LA shop a feature-length screenplay I wrote. However, nothing came of it. This was more than 10 years ago.
Durant played in Phoenix exactly the way he played in Brooklyn. Iâm not sure thatâs on Monty Williams.
Good thing i didnt limit it to Durant then
I think running a 1994 shot profile in 2023 isnât awesome
Granted itâs what Paul and Durant want to do but maybe also why they arenât the coach
Donât know. Booker is pretty clearly not a huge volume three guy. I donât know whatâs going through Durantâs head but I just know what he does. Whenever Paul was out there with Ayton it was P/R as a first option.
Hey now this is the coolest thing Iâve ever heard
Booker shoots 1.8 fewer threes a game per 36 post Monty than pre
There is definitely a scheme component. About 1.5 less than in college.
Monty did lots right in Phoenix, and I wonât take that away. I think his apathy about long range shooting combined with Weavers occasionally spoken hostility to it (and the presence of 1 to 2 plus shooters for their position on the roster) should be concerning if you care
By the way- Iâll be running my annual Over/Under Contest.
Iâm definitely concerned about shooting. Ausar was a huge risk. But I donât find the clip or the responses to it compelling, even if I do definitely hope that Monty has someone to tell him what the big data say about this kind of shot or that. I thought the trust comment was also interesting.
But ultimately what the coach was saying is not a wholesale rejection of data but rather a very common complaint about numbers and how some people use them, and those guys had no answer for that even though the original post alludes to that trust issue.
I would have found a data-driven response to his comments (rather than an emotion-generated assumption) better. Show your point not by whining on Twitter but by using data to disprove/understand/explain Montyâs assertion about getting your defense back and set more often because you take more efficient twos. The speed at which these particular guys abandoned their tool and just skipped to whining was notably fast.