Anticipating breakout candidates requires assessing opportunity and ability. Those two lanes are merging in Los Angeles with Tobias Harris, the scoring swing forward now playing with the Clippers. Harris was phenomenal for the team after being acquired at the trade deadline in the Blake Griffin
As a college basketball coach, I’ve always found a strange and symbiotic relationship between statistical analysis and informing what actions are taken on the court. Ben Falk over at Cleaning the Glass, as well as many others, has written extensive and eloquent pieces on the
I’m not big on zodiac signs, but I’m pretty sure 2018 is the year of the tank. The bottom third of the league has been scratching and clawing its way to the bottom for the better part of the last month, and there’s no sign
Hard to believe there’s only about one month remaining in the NBA regular season, but here we are. Down the stretch come the horses, and they’re sorted realistically into three different categories: the front-runners for the title (top teams in each conference), those jockeying for
The slate is full this week as we come back for our first post-All-Star Break edition of Coach Spins’ Clipboard. From some key play over the last 15 games to musings on defensive statistics after the Sloan Conference, we dabble in every type of topic
Coaches constantly wrestle with the balance between old and new, integrating the newest trends and discoveries with their deeply ingrained thoughts on how the game of basketball is supposed to be played. Perhaps it’s my relative youth (I’m knocking on the door of 26, so
This inaugural edition of Coach Spin’s Clipboard marks the start of a new weekly post on some of the more intriguing statistical and on-court observations from around the NBA. With a combination of Synergy data analysis and coaching expertise sprinkled in, the purpose is to