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How Prospects Outflex Their Opponent
April 20, 2024
2024 NBA Draft Articles
I struggled with the title of this piece, the third of three pieces on how I frame prospect analysis. This final installment will discuss a player's athleticism, well, physical athleticism...

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How Prospects Read the Game
February 10, 2024
2024 NBA Draft Articles
Productivity is the first basis of a player's game - how do they make things happen? But just behind that is a player's wiring: how they feel the game, think...

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How Prospects Make Things Happen
February 3, 2024
2024 NBA Draft Articles
How Do Prospects Produce? That's the first question I ask myself as I begin the process for my 2024 NBA draft board. By separating production, feel and athletic premiums, I...

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ROUNDTABLE: Bold Predictions for the 2023-24 NBA Season
October 25, 2023
NBA Articles
Roshan: The Minnesota Timberwolves will be a top 3 seed in the Western Conference. Most NBA fans were down on the Timberwolves to start the year after the team had...

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Seven Ways to Break Out
September 1, 2023
NBA Articles
In the doldrums of summer it can be easy to let the narratives run away with themselves. With no new NBA basketball, imaginations run wild, and there is none more...

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Becoming Primary: Aly Khalifa and Andrew Rohde
August 6, 2023
2024 NBA Draft Articles
From Steph Curry to Damian Lillard to Ja Morant to CJ McCollum to Pascal Siakam to Paul George, there have been countless examples of mid major draft picks who kept...

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Lessons from the Draft Cycle
July 14, 2023
2023 NBA Draft Articles
With the first Swish Theory draft cycle in the books, it’s time to recap the cycle in this follow-up to my final piece with The Stepien. Here I’ll be looking...

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Alyssa Thomas: Carnage and a Bucket
July 6, 2023
WNBA Articles
Precedents “Bodies on the floor, carnage…and a bucket” was the play-by-play description for what could have been any given Alyssa Thomas highlight: Sensing an opportunity, she dove on the floor,...

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Evaluating the 2023 NBA Draft’s “Flawed Freshmen”
June 27, 2023
2023 NBA Draft Articles
The NBA draft is in the books but things are far from determined. That is especially the case for our set of “Flawed Freshmen,” viewed so for lack of consistent...

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The 2023 NBA Draft’s “Everything Everywhere” Prospects
June 6, 2023
2023 NBA Draft Articles
My first piece recapping the 2023 NBA draft cycle focused on dynamic prospects, those whose production declined as competition increased. I called them "whiteboard" prospects given their obvious strengths/weaknesses, seemingly...

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The 2023 NBA Draft’s “Whiteboard” Prospects
May 9, 2023
2023 NBA Draft Articles
Concept The sample for NBA draft prospects is tiny. Even if we have perfect data for a player’s prep and pro careers, the top draft prospects are typically aged 18-22,...

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Outlier Development Series: What Pascal Siakam Can Teach Arthur Kaluma
December 31, 2022
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Why This Series? When a great player becomes great, there is often the narrative of inevitability tied into the fabric. While there may be some truth to that – no...

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