Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
“Power Companies Get Exactly What They Want”: How Texas Repeatedly Failed to Protect Its Power Grid Against Extreme Weather - “Despite the equipment failures that brought the electric grid to the brink of disaster, the polar vortex was a financial windfall for power-generation companies. In the months that followed the storm, some of the companies stressed to investors the financial benefits of the two days of cold weather and accompanying high energy prices.
[Read More]
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Understanding the Threat of “Surveillance Capitalism” super social safety nets - “It’s a question of what people have trouble paying out of pocket for, and what the role of the state is. They should be part of a reality check when decision-makers set their agendas and draft their policies, and treated with just as much import as public opinion polling on what people THINK they want.
[Read More]
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
-
Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper - “Nextdoor seems to be most effective at amplifying well-off residents’ quality-of-life concerns”
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The Myth of the Lost Art of the Mid-Range
“The analytics say that’s a bad shot” is a phrase you will often hear during NBA broadcasts when a guy like Kevin Durant or Chris Paul pulls up from mid-range, often accompanied by a lament that analytics have resulted in the “death of the mid-range” or the “lost art of the mid-range” (Side note: analytics don’t say anything, people do, and often when that phrase is said by TV analysts it is often not something people who actually do basketball analytics would agree with).
[Read More]
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
All The Books I Read In 2021
Some notes and quotes from the books I have read this year:
Putin’s People - The story of how Putin and a group of KGB men rose to power by going after the oligarchs who came to power after the fall of the Soviet Union and replacing them with their own people. Then they started funneling that money into the western countries to attempt to destabilize the West.
Rapture - Nick Nurse’s journey to becoming an NBA championship winning coach.
[Read More]
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Fred VanVleet's Weakness
If you have watched a lot of Raptors games over the past few seasons it can be a struggle watching them try to score in the half court. One of the reasons for that is they lack a guy who can generate good shots for himself. In particular, this is an area in which Fred VanVleet really struggles. I decided to take a dive into the public tracking stats to see how much he struggles and how he compares to other players.
[Read More]