Free Ballin’

I like the Rockets’ new point-guard tandem of Aaron Brooks and Kyle Lowry quite a bit, for numerous reasons, most of which you can find at any other basketball site that reported this trade, so I won’t go into all the “what this means to the Rockets” stuff.  I will just comment on Brian Cook, [...]

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Regarding the article I linked to in the previous post.  Michael Lewis doles out lots of really worthwhile information, in this article (and Moneyball) but when he goes off on his own to make statements, he frequently falls flat.  After discussing how tricky it is to properly valuate players, and how Daryl Morey thinks the [...]

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Michael Lewis (yes, of Moneyball fame) wrote a piece today in the Times.  I like that Lewis is interested in analytical ways of understanding sports, and that he talks to smart people and publishes what they say.  It just annoys me when he writes as though the answers to his questions are known, and clear, [...]

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