http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/meet-the-personal-stats-analyst-who-helped-kevin-durant-win-the-mvp/

FistOfOakley wrote:very good video on the coach/trainer for durant and thon maker...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/meet-the-personal-stats-analyst-who-helped-kevin-durant-win-the-mvp/

a little help for you.

Splat wrote:If any of you want lessons on how to butter your bread, I can teach you how to do it efficiently and without any extra jab spreads. I don't do nut butters though.

yikes...LOL

all the best offenses in the history of basketball all stressed quick ball decision making which in turn makes quick ball movement... the triangle fails with new and crappy players because they take long times to make decisions which messes up the flow... popovich institutes a drill in practice where anyone who has a ball needs to do something within a second of receiving it whether dribble somewhere, shoot or pass...

this is inherent in most good players... where you can make both effective and quick decisions... and it's important not only because of the shotclock but the ball moves faster than people so if you shoot, dribble or pass quickly you get the defense scrambling the quicker you go... stopping the ball like alot of players who've come through new york recently... let's the defense recover which everyone knows by now... possession times highlight this effect...

FistOfOakley wrote:the whole dirk thing has been known for awhile but maybe not known to your avg streetballer...

all the best offenses in the history of basketball all stressed quick ball decision making which in turn makes quick ball movement... the triangle fails with new and crappy players because they take long times to make decisions which messes up the flow... popovich institutes a drill in practice where anyone who has a ball needs to do something within a second of receiving it whether dribble somewhere, shoot or pass...

this is inherent in most good players... where you can make both effective and quick decisions... and it's important not only because of the shotclock but the ball moves faster than people so if you shoot, dribble or pass quickly you get the defense scrambling the quicker you go... stopping the ball like alot of players who've come through new york recently... let's the defense recover which everyone knows by now... possession times highlight this effect...

and are you also waiting for melo to conform? because that is the main issue with the triangle knicks and melo.

dk7th wrote:

FistOfOakley wrote:the whole dirk thing has been known for awhile but maybe not known to your avg streetballer...

all the best offenses in the history of basketball all stressed quick ball decision making which in turn makes quick ball movement... the triangle fails with new and crappy players because they take long times to make decisions which messes up the flow... popovich institutes a drill in practice where anyone who has a ball needs to do something within a second of receiving it whether dribble somewhere, shoot or pass...

this is inherent in most good players... where you can make both effective and quick decisions... and it's important not only because of the shotclock but the ball moves faster than people so if you shoot, dribble or pass quickly you get the defense scrambling the quicker you go... stopping the ball like alot of players who've come through new york recently... let's the defense recover which everyone knows by now... possession times highlight this effect...

and are you also waiting for melo to conform? because that is the main issue with the triangle knicks and melo.

And that is why Phil is FOS. He should have trashed his triangle talk the second he committed his war chest to Melo. The gall he has had in trying to snowjob the public with this vision of triangles when he is building around the anti-christangle is just too much for a sane person to take.

Phil has been a con artist. I think he conned himself by staring in the mirror and muttering about triangles. He is supposed to be so brilliant, but he is either delusional or a con artist. Or a bit of both. Either way, Phil is FOS.