Nov 13 2023 41 mins
Once again, Ray LeBov and Mike Shearer speak with the godfather of modern NBA analytics, Dean Oliver.
Dean talks about the trade-off between offensive rebounding and transition defense, the existence of momentum, what he'd tell armchair analysts today, and his new book, Basketball Beyond Paper, in which he quantifies some of the ways to train and improve players (among many other things).
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