PLAYERS TURNED TV ANALYSTS
Ever wonder if, as players, they had done all the things they talk about today on TV, how much better they and their teams might have been?
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ROB MCCLANAGHAN – WORK OUT GURU
Nothing surprises me anymore. Here’s this guy’s resume, at present he is training and teaching NBA players on shooting techniques … 1998-2001, he was a walk-on at Syracuse University … played 28 games, for a total of 48 minutes … was […]
COLLEGE COACHES-MEMO
Edwin A. (Scotty) McDonald, Jr. – the late, great basketball savant whose wisdom has been regularly referred to on this blog – is never far from my thoughts, and especially so these days, what with the 2014 college basketball season beginning. […]
ASSISTANT COACHES
In 1966-1967, my first season as an NBA Coach (Assistant at Chicago) there were ten teams in the league. Today 47 season later there are 30 teams in the NBA.
In 1966-67, a total of 125 players saw action in NBA games. […]
KLAY THOMPSON
Klay Thompson, Golden State Warriors, is an All-Star.
If he doesn’t get selected in the fan voting, the coaches definitely will select him.
What sets him apart from other shooters is […]
START OF THE 2013-2014 SEASON
The NBA begins it’s season this week with 21 General Managers who never played the game professionally. Fourteen of the past fifteen GM hires have been non-players, and most are widely praised for embracing analytics. What is also interesting, soon to be NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, is an advocate […]
SUNS SEASONS
If what the Phoenix Suns hierarchy is saying is true,the Suns can win twenty nine-thirty games if Dragic is healthy.###
MEMO
This is a memo to Sam Hinkie, other analyticals and teams building for the future: According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer and other interviews I’ve encountered, Hinkie hopes to build a team from the ground up aided by […]
WILT’S PLAYOFF FORMULA (” View From Above”)
Let me share with you Wilt’s playoff formula from his book, 1981 “View From Above,” Courtesy of JMK, relentless researcher.
One of the best of Wilt’s notions, […]