BORING

What some of these guys don’t realize is the analytics’ game is boring to watch: slam dunks and corner three’s, side pick and rolls and  high pick and rolls.  It’s a shame, the analytics have begun to takeover what used to be an awfully entertaining game called

By |2015-01-30T19:33:56-07:00November 25th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

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. […]
By |2017-03-17T16:51:02-07:00November 9th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

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. […]

By |2015-01-30T19:33:56-07:00November 9th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

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 […]

By |2015-01-30T19:33:56-07:00October 30th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

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 […]

By |2015-01-30T19:33:56-07:00October 29th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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