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Dean Oliver, Sports Analytics Pioneer And Assistant Coach For The Washington Wizards, Joins John Hartofilis On Gen Z Hoops To Discuss Writing The First Great Stats Book In Basketball On Paper, Seeing The Field Of Data Analytics Explode In Recent Years, And The Trends That Have Changed The Way The Game Is Played!!!
(1:20) - Falling In Love With The Game At Cal Tech
(4:05) - Working With Legendary Assistant Coach Bill Bertka
(7:28) - Writing Basketball On Paper Before Stats Were Cool
(11:08) - Trends From The Book That Still Hold True 20 Years Later
(12:54) - Starting Up The Stats Department For The Seattle
(15:40) - Being The First Director Of Qualitative Analytics For The Nuggets
(17:20) - How The Wizards Organization Is At The Forefront Of The Analytics Revolution
(20:14) - Process Behind Making Analytically Based Adjustments
(22:50) - How Teams Collect And Maintain Their Data
(26:05) -The Importance Of Defensive Minded Analytics
(28:50) - Future Analytics Trends To Look Forward To
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