Statistics are a great part of the basketball. They can tell you all kinds of stories. With traditional stats, we can see who scores a lot of points, gets boards and shoots at a high percentage. With advanced numbers, we can tell tell how much
With the bright lights of an ESPN nationally televised contest against the Los Angeles Lakers drawing eyeballs from the NBA’s general populace on Nov. 8, second-year forward Jaylen Brown was a relative non-factor offensively, scoring nine points on 3-of-11 shooting, including an 0-of-3 showing from
As an avid Detroit Pistons fan, watching Andre Drummond walk to the free-throw line in previous seasons evoked a feeling of fear. It was the same feeling that came from being called on in class when you failed to do the reading. You knew it
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale History is about to be made. No, the Golden State Warriors aren’t going to win 74 games. But you’re knocking on the door of the next best thing: Hardwood Knocks‘ first-ever mailbag! To start things off, we take you around the NBA with
First-year Milwaukee Bucks general manager Jon Horst is lucky. He adopted a team that already conquered the most difficult aspect of roster building. Whether through internal development or via the open market, basketball evaluators will search all ends of the earth to find a world-class
Two weeks ago, the San Antonio Spurs were chugging along in typical Spursian fashion, winners of their first four games despite the absence of Kawhi Leonard. The collective basketball world gushed about their ability to grind out victories. They looked destined for a sixth consecutive
Nothing about Brandon Ingram’s career has been equitable for him. He came into the league with unbelievably high expectations, then finished his rookie season dead last in the entire league in NBA Math’s TPA metric. Rookies tend to be bad, so this isn’t shocking by any
Some lessons are learned the hard way. The Washington Wizards front office knows this well after offering former star Gilbert Arenas a six-year, $111 million contract in 2008 that now ranks as one of the worst contracts in NBA history. “What I did to get