Great video. Thanks for highlighting this strategy it's definitely interesting! I appreciate that you dropped the coming soon portion at the beginning of the video. The coming soon portion doesn't feel needed on youtube and it respects my time more.
I’ve been waiting for a team to let him have so meaningful minutes. Big guard that has pace and makes the appropriate plays. He always did well at rico hines runs.
Interesting he is almost exactly opposite of Payton Pritchard. Coaches can save plays for the 4th but saving players for the 4th? Let's think about that 'closer role' for a minute. Baseball has had it a while and that position has evolved to a very large crowd saying put the closer in during the high leverage situation in the 7th, not the lower leverage situation in the 9th, zero on, zero out, three run lead. The philosophy of putting an NBA 'closer' in the 4th is also questionable. Why not put him in during a higher leverage situation earlier the game? I'm not saying I'm sold on putting him in earlier, but it's a possibility. One issue is this contemporary problem of teams getting 25 points down in the first half only to make some crazy comeback in the 4th and win. It happens regularly. That's what needs fixed to most. It's like there is an old saying about if you're down 20 early, just keep playing hard and the other team will let you back in the game. Some teams get that label of not being able to hold a lead. But it's nearly every team in the NBA these days it seems. We see players starting games, playing 5 minutes and not coming back in the game. That is strategy. Some teams have young perimeter 'feet happy' players who bite on everything early in a game. That center that can be at the rim protector for those defensive mistakes. So why not a guy 5 minutes at the end of games? But I think one issue is whether the 4th is where you need a closer or some other time period during the game. The volatility in scoring (25 up, then 25 down, same game) makes addressing the volatility a priority and whether that should wait until the 4th.
1998-99 is a great NBA season for statistical study, especially with tired legs being real. That was a lockout season that ended up being a 50 game regular season schedule. The problem was that the 50 game schedule was jammed into too short of a time period. The result was a drop across the board in stats. This had been present prior to the 50 game schedule. So it was expected by some. Others never figured it out. The question becomes are tired legs as real as they used to be? Is it relative to today's NBA where it can be exploited?
I don’t have the data but i imagine it could possibly be exploited if you have enough “fresh talent”. The problem is talent normally wins and talent normally uses the bulk of the minutes. So the thought is “saving” talent just for the 4th is kinda crazy. However I think this would be a perfect situation for a Mike James type of player where you can just let the leash off for a stretch of time. Legs definitely have to be tired with the pace and amount of possessions these days compared to back in the day in my opinion
Great video. Thanks for highlighting this strategy it's definitely interesting! I appreciate that you dropped the coming soon portion at the beginning of the video. The coming soon portion doesn't feel needed on youtube and it respects my time more.
I’ve been waiting for a team to let him have so meaningful minutes. Big guard that has pace and makes the appropriate plays. He always did well at rico hines runs.
He got crazy talent. I think he they let the leash off bro he could be elite. Somebody just gotta trust in him
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Interesting he is almost exactly opposite of Payton Pritchard. Coaches can save plays for the 4th but saving players for the 4th? Let's think about that 'closer role' for a minute. Baseball has had it a while and that position has evolved to a very large crowd saying put the closer in during the high leverage situation in the 7th, not the lower leverage situation in the 9th, zero on, zero out, three run lead. The philosophy of putting an NBA 'closer' in the 4th is also questionable. Why not put him in during a higher leverage situation earlier the game? I'm not saying I'm sold on putting him in earlier, but it's a possibility.
One issue is this contemporary problem of teams getting 25 points down in the first half only to make some crazy comeback in the 4th and win. It happens regularly. That's what needs fixed to most. It's like there is an old saying about if you're down 20 early, just keep playing hard and the other team will let you back in the game. Some teams get that label of not being able to hold a lead. But it's nearly every team in the NBA these days it seems.
We see players starting games, playing 5 minutes and not coming back in the game. That is strategy. Some teams have young perimeter 'feet happy' players who bite on everything early in a game. That center that can be at the rim protector for those defensive mistakes. So why not a guy 5 minutes at the end of games? But I think one issue is whether the 4th is where you need a closer or some other time period during the game. The volatility in scoring (25 up, then 25 down, same game) makes addressing the volatility a priority and whether that should wait until the 4th.
1998-99 is a great NBA season for statistical study, especially with tired legs being real. That was a lockout season that ended up being a 50 game regular season schedule. The problem was that the 50 game schedule was jammed into too short of a time period. The result was a drop across the board in stats. This had been present prior to the 50 game schedule. So it was expected by some. Others never figured it out. The question becomes are tired legs as real as they used to be? Is it relative to today's NBA where it can be exploited?
I don’t have the data but i imagine it could possibly be exploited if you have enough “fresh talent”. The problem is talent normally wins and talent normally uses the bulk of the minutes. So the thought is “saving” talent just for the 4th is kinda crazy. However I think this would be a perfect situation for a Mike James type of player where you can just let the leash off for a stretch of time. Legs definitely have to be tired with the pace and amount of possessions these days compared to back in the day in my opinion