NBA trades

SportsArena365 original · Analysis · 4 min read

Why spacing, not scoring, decides modern basketball

The three-point line did not simply add points. It rearranged where players are allowed to stand, and everything a modern offence does follows from that.

SportsArena365 original · Feature · 3 min read

The long season problem

A regular season long enough to be fair is also long enough to be ignored. That tension shapes almost every argument about the modern NBA calendar.

SportsArena365 original · Analysis · 3 min read

Playoff defence is a different sport

A seven-game series lets a defence study one opponent until it finds the thing that opponent cannot do. That is why regular-season offence rarely survives contact with spring.

SportsArena365 original · Blog · 3 min read

The load management argument never ends, and both sides are right

Opinion: the person who paid for a ticket and the coach protecting a season are arguing about different things, and neither is being unreasonable.

SportsArena365 original · 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.

SportsArena365 original · 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.