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Larry Brown says Cal has it.



http://zagsblog.com/articles/larry-brown-says-john-calipari-has-the-best-job-in-basketball/

HA, sounds like Larry is not a big fan of analytics

Larry is right. Analytics just tell us what we're supposed to be seeing w/our own two eyes. It's a game of feel

i love this debate - old school vs. analytics. I've always been a stats dork, and you can definitely get a competitive advantage through analytics but I believe making decisions based purely on analytics is flawed. The eye test and feel are equally important. There's a happy medium. Unfortunately, kind of like with politics, many people go one way or the other instead of meeting in the middle.

I go with what Pop says.

ponyboy wrote:I go with what Pop says.

lol, that's a good one to go by. Seems to work out quite well. Or Brad Stevens for that matter.

It's not one way or the other w/me. It's more a matter of if you can't see what the analytics will eventually tell you, you're in the wrong industry anyway. Larry is saying that just because you can analyze stats after the fact, doesn't speak to your ability to teach and make players better. The league does have too many analytics guys and not enough teachers right now, not sure how that's debatable.

Analytics was the major reason the Miami Marlins recently fired their manager and replaced him with their GM who believed that analytics is all you need to manage. GM has never managed before so we will see how this experiment works.

PoconoPony wrote:Analytics was the major reason the Miami Marlins recently fired their manager and replaced him with their GM who believed that analytics is all you need to manage. GM has never managed before so we will see how this experiment works.

It did work for the Red Sox