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Yeah I was surprised to hear that too, he was definitely one of the best guests on the Fan.
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Welp... another reason not to listen.
Nault is thin skinned on everything, only further degrading his thoughtless easy broadcasting takes. He's the only one who ever replies on the text line, and only when you say something he doesn't like.
Pinder has become unlistenable.
But listening to the clip of him and Will the other day was like watching two A-hole dogs fight with each other, while you know their owners are recoiling in embarrassment.
Pinder spouts his "fan-statistical" narratives like they ARE an undeniable fact like it's raining outside or not.
Then he cackles... he literally cackles on the radio, at the notion it could be any other way (sometimes directly at the person he's in a conversation with).
Analytics aren't wrong, but they are contextual. He gives no credence, or backhanded credence to the context, and ridicules it constantly.
I remember when Treliving started and he told Pinder that there is no advanced stat that tells you how much one player likes playing with another.
He has zero insight into the nuances of team building and is a blowhard charlatan selling emotionally potent oversimplification.
He hosted a segment at
www.thecoachessite.com between James Mirtle and Justin Bourne of The Athletic.
https://thecoachessite.com/2019/01/0...ure-analytics/
It is really good, and along with the other videos, I would encourage anyone to subscribe. Friedman makes a cameo appearance at the end. The first month is free, then you can unsubscribe.
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Sometimes the best perspective is an unbiased perspective. That’s the basis of The Athletic, a sports-writing company started a couple years ago with a mission of providing in-depth sports content that goes further than the average newspaper. James Mirtle is one of the architects of The Athletic, and one of the driving forces behind their early days is the advent of advanced analytics in today’s game.
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For Mirtle, Bourne, and coaches everywhere, analytics assist in the decision-making process. It exposes players who might not score a lot but possess other numbers that still have value to a team. Numbers that earn ice time because the coach trusts them.
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However... the discussion on stage at times, it becomes the self-deprecating... "HAHAHA... but actually... let me tell you what I know..." Ryan Pinder show.