telling homeric stories is more fun

1. Nothing wrong — and a lot right — with fun.

2. The flip-side analogue of The Basketball Iliad is the archetype who doesn’t really know much about basketball, but because basketball data happens to be available (it wasn’t always) just churns out some data analysis, often wrong.

Since they’ve eschewed fun for data, writings that misstate or misinterpret data are left with no safety net of appeal, but instead only a residual rump of tedium and pedantry.

Or, put another way: People understood basketball, and varied in their ability to do so, before the era of easily available data.

Not bad, Mr. Keels.

read into that what you will

At Kentucky, KAT played with Willie Cauley-Stein, Trey Lyles, and Devin Booker. So we just gotta get one of those guys.

Let’s trade Yabusele for Booker