What Rich (Goose) Gossage, Hall of Fame pitcher, said in last week’s tirade about the state of baseball might easily apply to the so-called “analytics” in basketball. “The game is becoming a freaking joke,” he said, “because of the nerds who are running it. I’ll tell you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the fuck they went, and they thought they figured the fucking game out. They don’t know shit.”

I could not have said it any more eloquently myself.