Is It Numbers or Talent? Sorting Fact, Fiction in NBA Stats Wave-Bleacher Report

s.b713 · Feb 26, 2015

Interesting read, has few quotes from our GM in there as well.

This column is not about Charles Barkley, who recently said, "I've always believed analytics was crap."

It's not about Larry Brown, who recently opined, "To say that these analytics guys have the answer is crazy."

It's not about the purported clash of new-age analysis and old-school thinking. It's not about scouts vs. "stat guys" or some tortured debate over "gut" vs. data.

Every day, all across the NBA, reasonable people are having reasonable discussions that involve some combination of observation, judgment and statistical data. These discussions have been going on since the invention of the box score, long before "advanced stats" entered the lexicon, long before "analytics" became a movement.
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...talent-sorting-fact-fiction-in-nba-stats-wave

kevC · Feb 26, 2015

I love this quote from Oliver:

A good scout, a good analyst, they go and they watch the game. Your eyes see the game much better than the numbers. But the numbers see all the games. And that's a big deal....They see all the detail and they really get you a lot of the story....Watching on video and going to games, those add different components to what the numbers can give you....And then there are other things that you have to talk to people about. You have to talk to the coaches.
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Numbers don't see the games as well as eyes, but they do see ALL of the games. I will trust what the numbers say more than me happening to watch three games of some player who performed a certain way in that stretch.

Invisible Fan · Feb 27, 2015

Howard Beck on the Bleacher Report confuses me...

Morey: Charles is right, it is all about getting high-end talents. It's about recognizing them, which not any idiot can recognize....
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Morey the wordsmith...

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