A big man who can pass from the short roll ruins every aggressive coverage
Switching everything works fine until the ball goes up
A flat jump shot works in an empty gym and nowhere else
Shooting off the dribble is a footwork skill wearing a shooting costume
Efficiency numbers flatten shot difficulty into a single dishonest average
The mid range never died, it moved to the end of the shot clock
Nobody grades the second half of a closeout
Draft models cannot see defensive movement yet
Contest rate rewards the wrong kind of defender
Cutting practice reps is why rotations die in spring
Running shooters off the line has stopped working
Closeouts are lost in the last two steps, not the first five
How far you close out is a decision the offense made for you
The contested shot label counts hands that arrived too late to matter
The best rim protectors get penalised for the shots that never happen
Verticality turned the block into a bad way to judge a big man
