Statistics have been on my mind. Mitchell’s write-up of Seth Partnow’s book discussed how Brook’s lackluster rebounding totals obscure the fact that his box-outs clear space for others to grab rebounds instead. Adam’s wrap-up last week aimed to determine when the Bucks’ Big Three is “on” by examining whether they exceeded their season averages in points and assists in games they played together. I listened to Timothée Chalamet’s evergreen rap video from his statistics class in high school.
In mulling statistics, I returned to a question that surfaced in comments on my piece last week that tried to analyze Giannis’ revolution on the game of basketball.