Since fully 8% of House of Strauss content is now Jurassic Park quotes, I'll let Ian Malcolm explain what's wrong with "just doing the fun awesome thing in sports and passing every down"
I'll tell you the problem with the analytical power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it.
The Perk thing is really complicated, because he's
A. Not articulate
B. Selling a book
C. Going against Redick who is running the opposite grift
Generally speaking in the black community there is a feeling that we are the true caretakers of basketball. I never once heard anyone I knew complain about Pistons/Spurs. Because ball was ball. The emerging white nerd blogosphere hated the manly aggression of traditionally rugged Eastern Conference Playoff Basketball. So in time, they gentrified my sport.
This tension has bubbled to the surface and fallen on a truly wonderful player in Jokic, who like an Oscar frontrunner was probably gonna lose ground to Giannis by the end of the season. But Perk ran his mouth, and then the Clay Travis' jumped in, and I have no idea how this shakes out. Probably whoever has the most wins at the end of the season takes the crown
I think the big trend is that the awards have, in general, become more objective as analytics plays a greater role.
The NBA is a little behind baseball in this. Barry Bonds won 7 National League MVP awards. Willie Mays won 2. Stan Musial won 3. Hank Aaron won 1. And Bonds was not exactly beloved my sportswriters. But the culture now is that we award MVPs on performance rather than narratives, and Bonds had the most performance. We're not giving MVPs to Kirk Gibson for his "leadership" anymore.
This is why it's possible for Jokic to win 3 straight MVPs, along with that a number of contenders have removed themselves from the running by not playing. There's no such thing as throwing the MVP to Karl Malone in 1997 to mix things up a bit.
The Steph and Jokic analogy is fascinating. The big limitation of analytics is looking at what is rather than what could be. Except for a brief Arenas moment, shooting 30 footers of the dribble was never efficient. Similarly, relying on a big post player that isn't a great defender was also on the way out which is why EVERYONE was down on the Kings trading for Sabonis.
What an incredible business model. It seems so obvious in the way that all the best ideas do in hindsight. Why can't a media company control and monetize the means of production? It seems that the industries that are struggling the most, media obviously included, are the ones that are stuck in the intellectual box of a bygone era. DNVR, like Playback, seem like they approached the business as if they were creating a new industry from scratch instead of retrofitting an old model into a new world. Despite an overall decline, there is still a massive interest in sports, especially at the local level. DNVR appears to intimately understand what these people want and are able to make money at every point along the way. There's a lot of lessons here for all industries struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing landscape.
I like this construct where American blackness is sufficiently restrictive to not include black people in Toronto, a population that speaks the same language, lives in the same time zone and is so integrated into American pop culture that it produces a Drake and the Weekend, while American whiteness is so inclusive that it includes every pale person in Europe.
I think the fact that we collectively know so little about him allows for the sportswriter crowd to use jokic as sort of this mascot for the analytics movement and the european style of basketball which then brings on the backlash from the black american fans who’s views are represented by Perkins in this scenario
As a Nuggets and DNVR fan this is awesome
My 2 favorite podcasters. Never expected this but always wished for it
House of Strauss tshirt phrase: Expository
Since fully 8% of House of Strauss content is now Jurassic Park quotes, I'll let Ian Malcolm explain what's wrong with "just doing the fun awesome thing in sports and passing every down"
I'll tell you the problem with the analytical power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it.
The Perk thing is really complicated, because he's
A. Not articulate
B. Selling a book
C. Going against Redick who is running the opposite grift
Generally speaking in the black community there is a feeling that we are the true caretakers of basketball. I never once heard anyone I knew complain about Pistons/Spurs. Because ball was ball. The emerging white nerd blogosphere hated the manly aggression of traditionally rugged Eastern Conference Playoff Basketball. So in time, they gentrified my sport.
This tension has bubbled to the surface and fallen on a truly wonderful player in Jokic, who like an Oscar frontrunner was probably gonna lose ground to Giannis by the end of the season. But Perk ran his mouth, and then the Clay Travis' jumped in, and I have no idea how this shakes out. Probably whoever has the most wins at the end of the season takes the crown
I think the big trend is that the awards have, in general, become more objective as analytics plays a greater role.
The NBA is a little behind baseball in this. Barry Bonds won 7 National League MVP awards. Willie Mays won 2. Stan Musial won 3. Hank Aaron won 1. And Bonds was not exactly beloved my sportswriters. But the culture now is that we award MVPs on performance rather than narratives, and Bonds had the most performance. We're not giving MVPs to Kirk Gibson for his "leadership" anymore.
This is why it's possible for Jokic to win 3 straight MVPs, along with that a number of contenders have removed themselves from the running by not playing. There's no such thing as throwing the MVP to Karl Malone in 1997 to mix things up a bit.
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The Steph and Jokic analogy is fascinating. The big limitation of analytics is looking at what is rather than what could be. Except for a brief Arenas moment, shooting 30 footers of the dribble was never efficient. Similarly, relying on a big post player that isn't a great defender was also on the way out which is why EVERYONE was down on the Kings trading for Sabonis.
What an incredible business model. It seems so obvious in the way that all the best ideas do in hindsight. Why can't a media company control and monetize the means of production? It seems that the industries that are struggling the most, media obviously included, are the ones that are stuck in the intellectual box of a bygone era. DNVR, like Playback, seem like they approached the business as if they were creating a new industry from scratch instead of retrofitting an old model into a new world. Despite an overall decline, there is still a massive interest in sports, especially at the local level. DNVR appears to intimately understand what these people want and are able to make money at every point along the way. There's a lot of lessons here for all industries struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing landscape.
I like this construct where American blackness is sufficiently restrictive to not include black people in Toronto, a population that speaks the same language, lives in the same time zone and is so integrated into American pop culture that it produces a Drake and the Weekend, while American whiteness is so inclusive that it includes every pale person in Europe.
I think the fact that we collectively know so little about him allows for the sportswriter crowd to use jokic as sort of this mascot for the analytics movement and the european style of basketball which then brings on the backlash from the black american fans who’s views are represented by Perkins in this scenario