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Nerder Summer Mailbag

The Athletic NBA Daily

CHAPTER

The Impact of Technology on Basketball

A person was reading some soccer player profiles with an analytics band and came across percentage of ground and aerial duels one. Would that be good information to have when you're trying to compare the effectiveness of perimeter defenders and basketball? I'd say yes, players absolutely would hate it. But I think it would give us at least a glimpse into the difficulties in looking at individual defense in basketball because it is a team sport. So giving up a drive. Like again, Rudy go bear, right? Rudy go bear played had played with some awful guards in Utah defensively was getting hammered like at the rim. And he's constantly having to defend at the basket in drop and it makes him look bad sometimes

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