Tag: SLB


  • 20 Things I’ve Learned About the Youth Pathway

    20 Things I’ve Learned About the Youth Pathway

    Every other week this season, I published an article on youth basketball in Britain. I started out knowing very little. What I did have was time, curiosity, and a willingness to knock on doors, talk to people, and do the research. The deeper I got, the clearer it became that this is one of the…

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  • What Does Tomiwa Sulaiman Give Leicester?

    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 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?

    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

    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

    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…

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