Ordinarily, I don't like quibbling with—or maybe picking on—Dave Berri. The author of the illustrious Wages of Win, which sold poorly, angered many people and yet somehow helped bring advanced basketball statistics to a wider audience, has no common sense.
As far as I can tell, he only cares about numbers, doesn't watch basketball and refuses to exercise any common sense he may have. This is, of course, the opposite of all the good stats folks who know how to tell a patently absurd conclusion from an eye-opening one. Berri, he just follows the numbers and tunes out all else.
However, the off-season is slow, and Berri's just unleashed one of those monstrously stupid slabs of WoW-aganda that practically demands a response. Even if that's exactly what he's trying to provoke, since his theories are designed as much to incite as they are to help us better understand and judge basketball.
Thus, without further waiting, here are my very pithy feeling...
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