Tag: Kon Knueppel
With the 2025 NBA Draft behind us, it’s officially time to speculate about what these teams may look like in the 2026 season and beyond. Let’s discuss three teams we’re especially excited to track after their draft hauls from day one and two: Phoenix’s young defensive core After the last few seasons of Suns basketball, […]
The 2025 NBA Draft is here and Basketball Insiders will have you covered from start to finish of the first round. This year’s draft class has been highly touted for a couple years now, and their moment in the spotlight has arrived. The workouts are complete, as are the interviews. Now, it’s time to sit back […]
No part of basketball captivates me like beautiful passing does. Possibly reflective of my basketball strengths and weaknesses, I’ve always felt partial to brilliant players with a sixth sense for playmaking. Hours of watching Jason Williams, Steve Nash and Chris Paul passing highlights growing up led me to my most ambitious scouting project to date. […]
Traditional measures of passing struggle to fully capture a player’s level of playmaking. All assists and turnovers aren’t created equally, yet they’re weighed as such in basic stats. I aimed to create hand-tracked, subjective measures of passing quality to better estimate a player’s passing quality. Inspired by Pro Football Focus’s “Big Time Throw” metric, I […]
