So I don't care about "small forward" and traditional position codes as much, even outside the newish trend of positionless ball if in 1997 we called both Kobe and KG small forwards how much could that possibly tell us about what they do? But I absolutely agree with your thesis that talent is crazy-high across the role board as I see it:
So I don't care about "small forward" and traditional position codes as much, even outside the newish trend of positionless ball if in 1997 we called both Kobe and KG small forwards how much could that possibly tell us about what they do? But I absolutely agree with your thesis that talent is crazy-high across the role board as I see it:
Primary creators
Scoring guards
Wings
Small bigs
Big bigs
Assigning players to one category or another are all based on whatever possibly-meaningless distinctions are bouncing around in my head, but as a rough heuristic I think it works pretty well. You also avoid having to worry about a weak small forward class, because for me PG, Kawhi, and *mayyyyyyyyybe* even Durant and LeBron are still wings.
I don't hate that classification system. I always get bogged down in the exceptions when I try to come up with a new taxonomy. I need to think about this more, might be a fun post one day. Needs to be some sort of size x role matrix, I think, which you pretty much get at.
So I don't care about "small forward" and traditional position codes as much, even outside the newish trend of positionless ball if in 1997 we called both Kobe and KG small forwards how much could that possibly tell us about what they do? But I absolutely agree with your thesis that talent is crazy-high across the role board as I see it:
Primary creators
Scoring guards
Wings
Small bigs
Big bigs
Assigning players to one category or another are all based on whatever possibly-meaningless distinctions are bouncing around in my head, but as a rough heuristic I think it works pretty well. You also avoid having to worry about a weak small forward class, because for me PG, Kawhi, and *mayyyyyyyyybe* even Durant and LeBron are still wings.
I don't hate that classification system. I always get bogged down in the exceptions when I try to come up with a new taxonomy. I need to think about this more, might be a fun post one day. Needs to be some sort of size x role matrix, I think, which you pretty much get at.