[Former Player X]'s take on analytics, regardless of sport, is great clickbait. Gets the olds and the noobs all riled up.
But seriously, if I were a player who had aspirations to make it in coaching or management, I'd be all in stats and analytics classes. This assumes that the school I play for wants to actually give me a quality, useful education.
When you can't dispute the post, make it about me...
Hilarious and sad...
There has yet to be a great NBA team built on analytics.
ha
Celts, Rockets, Sixers, Spurs all have great analytics depts and also are all pretty well set up to be good for a while
the problem with a hot take like this is that you can't make stats a panacea for your organization; it needs to be good alongside player development, nutrition, in game coaching, etc.
necessary but insufficient to have a good analytics team
Your own post contradicts your position.
The Celtics built a team around high draft picks, a FA and a trade. The Sixers built their team by tanking and not taking threes. The Spurs took the fewest threes in the NBA this year (5th fewest the year before and 8th fewest the year before that).
Additionally, you dishonestly neglected a central point in my post. I said analytics should be A tool.
My bad, this is your MO...
Panacea is a great word and should be used more often.
But seriously, if I were a player who had aspirations to make it in coaching or management, I'd be all in stats and analytics classes. This assumes that the school I play for wants to actually give me a quality, useful education.
Anybody should take a stats class. Learning basic stats and learning how to write in different styles for different audiences are great skills for people to have that they can use across contexts.