Basketball Intelligence for 10/26/2022
Today's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis
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The Utah Jazz’s Hot Start And Future Plans, with Sarah Todd and Eric Walden
Ray LeBov/Mike Shearer, Basketball Intelligence’s The Unrestricted Area
NBA Front Offices On Mock Drafts, Misinformation, And More With Adam Finkelstein Of 247Sports
Ray LeBov/Mike Shearer, Basketball Intelligence’s The Unrestricted Area
Team-Specific Stories
WAS: How Bradley Beal inspires Wizards defense: ‘If Brad can do it, everybody can do it’
Josh Robbins, The Athletic
Unseld and his assistant coaches spent a large portion of their offseason dreaming up ways to improve a defense that finished last year 25th in points allowed per possession. They simplified some X’s and O’s so their players could play a bit more on instinct. They even decided to create a Defensive Player of the Game belt that would go to a deserving person after each victory.
UTA: The Utah Jazz Are Winning. Whoops.
Mike Shearer, Basketball Poetry
UTA: ‘Our team’s got heart’: How the rebuilding Utah Jazz stunned the NBA with a 3-0 start to the season
Sarah Todd, Deseret News
UTA: Utah Jazz rookie Simone Fontecchio finally gets his shot — and uses it to take nine of them
Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune
TOR: Raptors even record may not impress but the progress is definitely there
Mike Ganter, Canoe.com
TOR: 10 things: Raptors exact revenge in gritty win over Heat
William Lou, Sportsnet
POR: Portland Trail Blazers X's & O's
Gibson Pyper, Half Court Hoops
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