swellafelon wrote:
Sister Jean, I've been trying to track down the source for your "Close Game Career Winning Percentage" stat, but the closest I got was a passing reference to a similar metric by Jordan Sperber, an analytics guy who publishes a newsletter, "Hoops Vision". The newsletter is subscription-only.
Is Hoops Vision your source? That would mean you subscribe to it, which suggests you are into analytics. This surprises me as I think of analytics as a young man's game, while your prose style seems more mature.
I wouldn't call myself an analytics guy, but yes, my number did come from a Hoops Vision graphic.
I will say that I wish the team played a more analytically oriented style. We try to score all our points in the paint and we are good at it, but when we play a team like UNI who
accurately chucks up 3s on half of their possessions, it requires that we play a perfect game just to keep up with them on offense because of the math. The defensive principles that we adhere to also seem to want the other team to take 3s. It's an antiquated way to play, but Porter doesn't seem like a coach who buys into analytics based on us never taking 3s and allowing so many on a regular basis.