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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Top NBA Stories: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... alysis-20/

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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Best NBA Stories: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... alysis-21/

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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Top NBA Stories: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... alysis-22/

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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Best NBA Coverage: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... alysis-23/

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Today's Top NBA stories and analysis: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... alysis-24/

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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Top NBA Reporting and Analysis: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... nalysis-7/

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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Top NBA Reporting and Analysis: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... alysis-25/

MENTAL HEALTH WARNING/DISCLAIMER: Today's BI contains an interview re analytics with Stephen Shea for which BI offers no comment. It is presented for its own merits and everyone is invited to have/share an opinion about it or not as they see fit. For those who are horrified/traumatized/offended/confused when they see a link to a story for which no editorial comment is offered, please note the warning and proceed at your own risk. BI assumes no liability for potential psychological or emotional trauma potentially resulting from reading a story regarding basketball anlaytics proffered without comment.

[Crow]

Shea article wouldn't load on my phone but I'll try to look at it at a later time.

Hope my long past suggestion about curator comments on articles didn't provoke or even contribute to the disclaimer. It was only a suggested option and your service is fine and helpful as is.

[rlee]

Not at all, Crow. Your comments were helpful and were in response to a strange post that bizarrely characterized links to relevant stories without also attaching editorial comment as "spamming" and as somehow a dire threat to the preservation of the sanctity of the discussion board.

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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Best NBA Reporting and Analysis: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/ ... alysis-26/

[Crow]

Read the Shea article. Mention of the importance of context makes me wonder if somebody could / should analyze "context" directly, putting individual players aside as much as possible. I am thinking four factors, both now and over coach's career, lineup tendencies, overall team shot pattern, pace, defensive scheme, etc.

BI is way way ahead of hoopshype with regard to links to anything resembling analytics. Hoopshype is some news mixed in to piles of trivia and gossip. BI is a routine now for me.

[rlee]

Thanks for the kind words, Crow. We aim for rigor in application of our criteria (i.e. stories must be intelligent, insightful, informative and interesting) for analytics pieces as well as all others that we link to.

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Basketball Intelligence: Today's Top NBA News and Analysis: http://basketballintelligence.net/2015/01/14/10002/

[steveshea]

Read the Shea article. Mention of the importance of context makes me wonder if somebody could / should analyze "context" directly, putting individual players aside as much as possible. I am thinking four factors, both now and over coach's career, lineup tendencies, overall team shot pattern, pace, defensive scheme, etc.

BI is way way ahead of hoopshype with regard to links to anything resembling analytics. Hoopshype is some news mixed in to piles of trivia and gossip. BI is a routine now for me.

Thanks BI for mentioning my interview. Thanks Crow for reading it. Amid all of my rambling, there is maybe a coherent idea or two in there. Crow, I like the suggestion to look at context only. I'd like to see some very specific studies in this respect (as opposed to trying to smash a number of things into one number). For example, what percentage of San Antonio drives occur when there is an above average 3-point shooter in the corner (or two in both corners). How does that compare to other teams? If you have read my most recent book, this is related to my suggestion of measuring the degree to which the defense is stretched on player drives. I suspect that teams with better perimeter shooters have more space in the lane to drive, and that more space in the lane when driving will improve driving efficiency. It's possible that certain players have poor driving efficiency in part because the context they plan in is far from optimal for driving.

[Crow]

Yes context should be many point and shot clock aware.

Drives both stretch and collapse D. Defensive teams probably vary on degree of movement, recovery and speed of recovery. And offense vary on response to collapse, exploit of stretch, exploit of recovery, etc. Vibrating strings in a cage match.