Julio Enciso’s career at Brighton & Hove Albion has reached a critical moment. Although only involved for half of the match, Enciso had the most shots on target of any Brighton player, and the joint-most for both sides, shared with Palace’s Ismaila Sarr, who scored twice. Hurzeler, asked by The Athletic to discuss Enciso’s tendency to go it alone with …
Welcome to The Athletic’s NBA Reliability Tiers, in which we measure the All-NBA status of the 49 All-Stars during the last three seasons and weigh how much those stars play in the regular season. Boston Celtics PF Tier 1 2 Nikola Jokić Denver Nuggets Average games played last three seasons: 74.0 All-NBA/All-Star last three seasons: 2022 All-NBA First Team, 2022 …
The Celtics aren’t entirely done filling out their roster. I’m not entirely sure the Celtics would have enough ball handling the way I set everything up, but Pritchard doesn’t actually run the offense very often anyway. The Celtics’ size could kill One major factor in my call to keep Pritchard out of the rotation: The acquisition of Porziņģis gives the …
Sports analysis is always evolving, and data plays a key role in that. Even-strength offense accounts for a player’s impact on their teammates’ goal production rates and their shot creation rates, the goals they themselves scored, the assists they produced, among numerous other metrics. For skaters, that’s: Goals: 0.75 Primary Assists: 0.7 Secondary Assists: 0.55 Shots: 0.075 Blocks: 0.05 Penalty …
The ideal Matt Painter vacation involves doing nothing, and an early May excursion to Florida did not disappoint. “A lot of times when you get bigger guys, they can’t run as well,” Painter says of Furst. “He’s going to be a really good player at Purdue,” Painter says. “I don’t know if he really liked that, because he wanted to …
