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34. The trend of shooting moving farther and farther beyond the three-point the line will come to an end soon. There is a strongly super-linear growth in required precision with distance.
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35. I don't really see much point to getting basketball players to think about math/statistics. But I think they could benefit from understanding the concepts of energy (potential and kinetic) and momentum.
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36. Playing NBA-level basketball has become much more difficult since the 90s. Less so physically than mentally. Elite basketball requires much more (and much more intricate) thinking than it used to.
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39. Goaltending calls are wrong all the time because referees interpret "the top of the ball's trajectory" as "the point in time when I can visually see the ball coming down", rather than as "the midpoint between visibly going up and visibly coming down"
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40. After all the "advanced stats" revolution, points per game is still the strongest correlate of player salary. I will believe more in the effectiveness of the revolution when this has changed.
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