As the old saying goes, there’s nothing quite like an influx of regular season NBA data.
The Nets and Clippers kicked off the truncated 2021 NBA regular season with victories last night. Alas, only so much can be gleamed from a single night of games involving a fraction of the league’s teams. There are other, more effective ways than parsing extremely limited samples to try and predict what’s going to happen the rest of the way. NBA teams themselves likely do some version of this behind closed doors, but fortunately, not all of these efforts have been private.