Saturday, February 27, 2010

Nike Adopts the Cross Over Elite Development League

In 2006, I published Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development because of the problems that I perceived with the manner in which we develop youth basketball players in the United States. While the media criticized the development programs, nobody offered a solution. People like Sonny Vaccaro got lots of publicity for saying that they had plans to revolutionize the game, but nobody

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Stat Geeks and All-Star Teams

Usually, when the stat geeks go to the stats and choose best players or all-star teams based strictly on statistical analysis, there are some anomalies or controversial selections. However, after looking at Wayne Winston's selections (via True Hoop), it was tough to find the controversial pick, once you ignore popular opinion:Western ConferenceCenters: Marc Gasol and Chris KamanForwards: Kevin