RE: The Evolution of Basketball
So, I think there is more to the data. I believe that the reason that post up efficiency is low is because there are very few good post players, and in the one and done age, they are all going to go to a few schools. I think if you were to track efficiency of true, talented, post players on teams that are committed to running the ball through the post philosophically, and remove the stats for post ups by guys who should not be posting (which is probably 80%+ of them at this point, you would find that the lack of efficiency has more to do with a lack of good traditional bigs, and systems that utilize them than it has to do with posting not being an effective way to attack the basket.
To me, so many of these advanced metrics have as much to do with confirmation bias as they do with actual information. If everyone thinks doing things a certain way is better, then everyone starts doing that, and starts recruiting and coaching players to do it that way. Next thing you know, all the metrics are confirmed because everyone is molding their system to the metrics. Its just a big cycle of confirmation. And to be clear, I am talking about college basketball. The NBA is a completely different game, and different rules apply, imo.
All that said, I think there is more than one way to skin a cat, and I prefer a 4 that can handle shoot and go coast to coast after getting a rebound, those guys are not a dime a dozen at our level, though. I also see 2s and 3s as interchangable.
Perfect world, I would like a pg with old school pg skills and a dead on 3 point shot when left open, 2/3s that can shoot and can slash a little, a 4 that can shoot and slash, and a 5 that you can dump the ball into.
To me, the 2015 Duke team was the perfect team. Three shooters around the perimeter, Ultra Versatile and smallish Winslow at the 4, and a true center in Okafor at the 5
(This post was last modified: 10-30-2017 12:26 PM by Monarchblue.)
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