Author: Joe Whitehead
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North West Regional Finals
The Manchester Basketball Centre is hosting the North West Regional Finals, the culmination of the North West regional league season. A banner of Trafford-born Georgia Anderson — the all-time leading scorer in the British top flight — looks out over the courts where 16 teams will play for this season’s playoff titles. Tables are being…
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What Does Tomiwa Sulaiman Give Leicester?
Tomiwa Sulaiman’s individual offensive numbers are poor. He uses few possessions and has not scored efficiently when he does. Leicester’s impact data suggests he has still been helping them. That is what makes him worth examining. Not because he has had a good offensive season. He has not. But because the gap between his box-score…
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Bristol’s Scoring Is Shared. The Creation Is Not
Bristol’s offence can look balanced at first glance. The ball moves, different players score, and no one player dominates the shots. But the passing behind those baskets is much less evenly spread. Too Much Rests on Two A lot of Bristol’s offence starts with Joe Anderson. He gets them into actions and creates a bigger…
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What Should an SLB Club Be?
When Bristol Flyers were founded, the ambition was bigger than simply putting a professional team on the floor. Speaking on The Bristol Flyers Podcast last season about the club’s early days, former director of basketball Danny James made clear that the idea was there from the start. We set out a platform for what basketball…
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Kino Lilly Jr’s Burden
No player in the SLB has spent more time on court this season than Kino Lilly Jr. Surrey have leaned on him more than anyone else in the league, not just because of his shooting, but because he can shift between roles as the game changes. That has kept him on the floor all season,…
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Cheshire’s Death Lineup
No five-man lineup in the SLB has been more effective this season than Cheshire Phoenix’s Pat Robinson, LaQuincy Rideau, Michael Diggins, Frankie Policelli and Skyler White. It offers a useful picture of Cheshire’s roster construction at its best, with roles that fit cleanly together and a lineup shape that makes sense. This post uses Prophe(s)y…
