u/Beneficial_Carry_530

I think we as a community are starting to notice the NBA trending away from spacing at all costs and three-point shooting, toward a higher emphasis on size, athleticism, and physicality.

Three-and-D is no longer the premium position it was before. Can you defend multiple positions at an above-average to elite level? Can you contribute to possessions with stocks and defensive rebounds? Can you contribute to the overall mucking of passing lanes and space in the interior? These are the forwards that will be sought after at all costs.

The Timberwolves, with their wings (McDaniels, Randall, and Reed), are one of the most versatile and well-rounded teams in the league. They are big, mobile, and skilled enough to handle the ball in ancillary, secondary, or even primary roles. OKC might be their only "bad" matchup.

Caleb Wilson, a 6'9" hyper athlete who has shown a good amount of playmaking skills in a shortened season, has to be looked at by NBA front offices as a blue-chip prospect.

"one of the most interesting things about Caleb Wilson: a lack of proper backcourt infrastructure really forced his hand as a creator, yet he handled it pretty well and was one of the leaders in the nation in terms of unassisted points and unassisted scoring from 2"
Credit: SheedATL on X

I would be extremely interested in taking Caleb Wilson over Cam Boozer for this reason: I want my 6'9" and up forwards to be hyper-athletes who can move around rather than needing to be hidden. Instead of having another undersized, below-the-rim scorer or finisher, like Senun

hopefully one of y'all can explain the switch in the NBA from three-point shooting at all costs (though it's extremely important still) to more emphasis on size and athleticism. I just woke up wanting to get this thought down before I forgot and couldn't quite articulate it.

TLDR:
started a personal project to create a platform that preserves our opinions as a personal journal for NBA discourse where everything is time-stamped and saved to your profile like an append-only ledger. Right now it is a draft site where our community(100+) makes boards and player evals) want to expand it into a place where projects, articles, and ideas can have a home, a GitHub for basketball. looking for people interested in helping shape it

One of my biggest gripes is that a lot of this discourse has been fractured by the platforms that serve it. Everywhere we currently talk is run by algorithms that prioritize engagement and divisiveness for profit over actual discussion.

Detailed write-ups or projetcs disappears from the timeline within a couple of minutes or hours. are scoffed at by the algorithm and favored for punchy one to seven word quips.

About three or four months ago I started a personal project and wrote a couple of papers about the idea of trying to crack the code and creating a platform that preserves our opinions and is a place where true NBA discourse can thrive.

It’s been going pretty good. It’s a small growing community, right now it’s used as a personal journal for NBA draft prospects. You can say your opinion about a player and it’s saved forever on your profile. You can never delete it; you can only append, like an append-only ledger. Everything is time-stamped and saved to your profile.

I had a new vision to expand it a little bit, to make it a place where all of these amazing projects I’m seeing in this Reddit community, what I see on Twitter, and the articles I see people writing can have a home.

a website dedicated to basketball, the celebration of basketball analysis.

For every project you make, whether it’s, “This is why guards under 6'4 NEED a 6'10+ wingspan” and you go into a deep dive about the statistical reasons, it’s served to users on a plate where they can engage and collaborate.

If you make a new formula that’s somehow better than RAPM and you want to share it, or if you try to quantify defensive gravity in your own way instead of just putting it on GitHub where it gets lost, or tweeting about it where it disappears in two hours, you have a place.

You have a website that’s dedicated entirely to that type of creation and discourse.

I wrote out spme features called Projects and Articles. A lot of the current user base is more interested in creating draft boards.

seeing if anyone is interested in making this a reality and being one of the first people to use it like that.

I would add you to a group chat and work closely with you to design it, including:

• the feature
• how it looks
• how it works (since there is no social component)

There is no liking, no following, and no algorithm. It is literally just a personal journal rn. I would want to move very softly, never trying to be social media per se, but create some sort of discovery mechanic for these projects. I know this was long. If you are interested, please let me know.