Previously VP of Basketball Strategy with the 76ers & Analytics Manager with the Blazers. Currently @cleantheglass.
Joined October 2011
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🚀 It’s finally here! 🚀
47 lessons with 250+ detailed videos to help you learn NBA Xs and Os from the ground up.
Find out more at learn-basketball.com (with a special launch discount). #LearnBasketball
Or keep reading for more on why we made this course...👇
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Our GITG101 NBA Draft Course launches on May 21. Come learn from NBA personnel, work on your own draft projects, and join a mini-front office from the class for simulated weekly drafts. Sign up now at getinthegame101.com 🏀
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GITG 101's NBA Training Camp Course starts Oct 4th!
If you want to work in the NBA or simply love hoops, we believe you will love this course. If for some reason you don't, just let us know and we'll send you $100 back.
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Sumerian was easily the most useful thing I studied in school (not a joke).
This influenced a lot about how I think about hard problems.
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In my favorite panel at the Women in Sports Data symposium, each of the panelists described how she took an unusual path to sports. But after surveying the resumes of 200 current or former (W)NBA analytics staffers, I'm convinced there is really no such thing as the ~usual~ path.
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We are looking to add a data scientist to the Utah Jazz Front Office. Come help us with decision making!
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GET IN THE GAME 101's NBA DRAFT Course starts May 17th! Find all the details here 🏀🔥
“GITG101 is changing the game!” “The learning is real and the hosts genuinely want to see you succeed! It was an experience I will never forget!”
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Sources tell me this course is going to have some A+ level guests -- current and former NBA employees from all across the spectrum of basketball operations.
Should be a really cool peek behind the curtain...
GET IN THE GAME 101's Trade Deadline Course starts tonight!
What really happens at the Trade Deadline? What are franchises thinking? What are players thinking? What are Coaches and Front Office Staff thinking?
Come join us and find out!! 🏀
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Recently found this thought from @Nick_Sciria saved in my notes from years ago. I remember being immediately challenged when I read it. Hopefully it can serve as a good reminder for those currently leading teams!
The work Dave is doing here to attempt to quantify the *process* of shooting is fascinating. We still have so much to learn about one of the most fundamental skills in basketball.
Who would be interested in a Cleaning the Glass coding challenge?
The idea: we'd detail a small project, each submission would be shared with current/former NBA staffers and get some constructive feedback from them. No prizes, but a great way to learn and get noticed by a team.
52%Yes, I'd love to do that
25%If I have the time...
23%Not me, but I'd recommend
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I love that stuff. Coaching and teaching is fun. Deliver the information, empower and believe in your players. As a player, take the information and get right back after it. It comes together.
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A few plays later the Suns run pick and roll again. Davis is the low man again. Look at where his early help is. Right there in position, ends up taking a charge. Daps all around.
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Mike Brown immediately calls timeout and he lets Davis know where he should have been. But instead of a total back and forth *shows* him where he needed to be on the court. Stick with me.
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Little things for the Kings defense, just have to build their help early. Davis is the low man his job is to help on the roll. In early but he sinks with the drive which opens the roll for Ayton. Stick with me.
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We are looking to add software engineers to the Utah Jazz Front Office. Come help us with decision making! shorturl.at/eiJLR
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2/ Football simulations feel obscure and niche-y but they are really just another symptom of some bigger issues - uncertainty, overconfidence, and the mixed blessing of models.
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Philadelphia 76ers Training Camp Breakdown - Notes/Playcalls/Film.
-4 Around 1
-Drag/Double Drag
-Miami
-Color
-Exchange
-21
-Attacking Switches
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John Ross did a version of this course for the draft back in June and it was fantastic — great speakers, great students, great activities. This one looks just as good if not better.
Our Training Camp (w/ Season Option) Course starts September 28! We hope to see you there! 🏀
“Most basketball courses are too caught up in talking about “advice” & GITG instead put a premium on in depth analysis on the people & roles within a team.” - @JohnHartofilis @genzhoops
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The DARKO team is excited to announce that we are opening up a couple spots for a 6-12 months non-traditional internship and mentoring program (bit.ly/darko_intern). I'll thread some details about the role here.