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Blog · 3 min read

Judge players by their role, not by their counting stats

Opinion: totals tell you what a player was asked to do as much as how well they did it, and most arguments about who is better are really arguments about job descriptions.

Analysis · 3 min read

The modern head coach is a manager of attention, not a play-caller

Most possessions are not decided by a diagrammed set. They are decided by where a coach has trained ten eyes to look, and that is a harder job to see from the stands.

Analysis · 3 min read

Rebounding is a positioning problem long before it is a jumping problem

The highlight is always the leap. The rebound was usually decided two seconds earlier, by a body that got where it needed to be first.

Analysis · 3 min read

Transition offense starts on the defensive end, not the fast break

The fastest points in basketball are earned before the ball changes hands, in the decisions a team makes about the shot it is about to give up.

Analysis · 3 min read

What referees are actually optimizing for, and why fans misread it

A whistle is not a verdict on justice. It is a judgment, made in real time, about which mistake is more costly to let stand — and that framing explains most complaints about consistency.