Draymond Green explains what Kenny Atkinson meant by analytically winning a playoff series. Every NBA team now has an analytics department tracking everything from shoe-tying to shot locations, generating expected scores before each game to guide strategy. Analytics aren't buzzwords anymore, they're how the league actually operates.
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What did you make of the pounding Kenny Atkinson took for his comments about analytically winning the series? I don't make much of it because I know what Kenny's talking about when he talk about the expected score. For those of y'all out there that don't know what Kenny's talking about, there's an analytical department that every NBA team has right now and they run all these analytics all year from how many times I tie my shoe during the game to how many jump shots to where the jump shots are, everything down to a T. One thing that they also do is every game the coaches get an expected score of the game based on all these different facts. Think about sports gambling and why people around NBA teams can't bet on sports. All these different things that they take into an account and they come out with an expected score and the coaches get that expected score as a part of all their things before the game. That's what Kenny is talking about. So everyone's like, "Oh, what is he talking about? Analytics this, analytics that." For all of you out there, analytics play a huge role in what you see your NBA team do. Draymond Green.