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Touch and Cognition: an intersection of traits you shouldn't bet against when projecting pull-up shooting
Happy NBA RS Day! To celebrate, I refurbished 3 of my unreleased pre-draft player profiles and dropped them on my blog, explaining my view on each player entering draft night.
Words on Boozer’s dominance, Hannes’ underrated passing, and Swain’s overvalued creation.
Links 🧵 ⬇️
While Dailyn Swain produced one of the greatest wing-creation seasons in NCAA history, his finishing and turnover issues with the ball, low activity off the ball, and tweener measurements at the combine raise questions about his NBA position/role.
neuralnets.blog/player-profi…
Squeezed one more piece in before today's slate of games and Yaxel Lendeborg's official NBA debut.
Words on the historic pull-up 3PT shooting that made Yaxel my 6th-best prospect on draft night: neuralnets.blog/player-profi…
No tweet has affected my evaluation paradigms as much as this. So I wrote an article about:
1. My definition of cognition
2. Linking “OAS” theory to cognition
3. Why the cognition found in OAS drives outlier development
The debut of my R&D blog, Neural Nets, is live. Link ⬇️
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With college basketball rapidly approaching, here are the top incoming freshmen as projected by my model! The model is trained on AAU, FIBA, and International league production and the target variable is first year BPR @EvanMiya's all-in-one metric!
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On the next episode of 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥
@TheFlarescreen joins @beyondtheRK !
🔘 Why Westbrook is Underrated
🔘 2020 NBA Redraft
🔘 2026 OKC Offseason Outlook
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Lessons from the Draft Cycle, 2026
In this annual column, Editor-in-Chief @DraftPow details how his prospect evaluation and philosophy have evolved over the years.
Read below!⤵️🔗⤵️
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I’m happy to present my long-form Swish Theory debut! I teamed up with the great @AtTheLevel to analyze our two favorite small guard prospects: Tyler Tanner and Chance Mallory. Show some love ⬇️
Small guards are an endangered species in today's NBA. Tyler Tanner and Chance Mallory are here to prove they're not extinct.
New at Swish Theory! A collaboration between @AtTheLevel and @MaxiMonster111.
⬇️ READ BELOW ⬇️
Two excellent writers, one Swish Theory debut, and an elite read. Tap in!
Small guards are an endangered species in today's NBA. Tyler Tanner and Chance Mallory are here to prove they're not extinct.
New at Swish Theory! A collaboration between @AtTheLevel and @MaxiMonster111.
⬇️ READ BELOW ⬇️
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Hello everyone, with a heavy heart I wanted to share that my dad has been dealing with stage 3 pancreatic cancer for the last few months.
As time has gone on, insurance has been unhelpful and as treatment has continued, our financial burden has grown to higher levels as well. Not asking for much as any help would be wonderfully appreciated.
The link to his GoFundMe is below ❤️
gofund.me/999f49283
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Summer League season is HERE. With so many great prospects in the 2026 class, we've put together a watch list of what to look for from each team's top pick.
Swish Theory's '26 Summer League Rookie Watch List:
Tanner would've been 7th for me if he declared this year, FYI xitter.cf/VandyMBB/status/207200…
