Dean Smith and the rise of basketball analytics
Posted Mar 18, 2016
I blame it all on Dean Smith. This new-wave obsession with statistics in college basketball carries a link to the late legendary coach. He was a mathematics major at Kansas, you know. Yet Smith also was the master of suppressing the analytical part of the game, thus indirectly leading to a deeper examination of the game’s numbers.
(Charlotte Observer)
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