Coming from a hockey background I have always thought the number 1 obvious inefficiency in basketball is not using the bench WILDLY MORE and having all the players play like twice as hard.
Maybe the real stars stay in, but the 8th guy on the roster going 100% is almost certainly better than the 4th guy going 80%. There is so much jogging. Constant constant sprinting and when guys get tired swap them immediately, would yield a lot of benefits.
Hell with the advanced tracking these days you could measure the possession someone's top speed starts flagging a bit and yank them.
Honestly line changes are underused in hockey even with all its changes, and you will see late in games stars eating up too much ice time when they are already gassed, but the politics/optics of it are hard in a lot of cases I think.
People will whine "rhythm", but they say the exact same shit about hockey and it mostly is just BS.
What’s the password for the over/under thing? Haven’t listened to the pod yet. I assume you say it there?
Ugh, another not-betting-betting one.....
Coming from a hockey background I have always thought the number 1 obvious inefficiency in basketball is not using the bench WILDLY MORE and having all the players play like twice as hard.
Maybe the real stars stay in, but the 8th guy on the roster going 100% is almost certainly better than the 4th guy going 80%. There is so much jogging. Constant constant sprinting and when guys get tired swap them immediately, would yield a lot of benefits.
Hell with the advanced tracking these days you could measure the possession someone's top speed starts flagging a bit and yank them.
Honestly line changes are underused in hockey even with all its changes, and you will see late in games stars eating up too much ice time when they are already gassed, but the politics/optics of it are hard in a lot of cases I think.
People will whine "rhythm", but they say the exact same shit about hockey and it mostly is just BS.