JunkYardDog6ix wrote:
Are we talking about scouting now ? I'm sorry but Kwame Brown is a ridiculous example for the eye test. I love how you are mentioning a high school prospect to prove that the eye test is wrong No one knows how good high school / college prospects will do in the NBA , this has nothing to do with the eye test. The eye test would be watching someone IN the NBA 1 season to the next and being wrong.. which is pretty much impossible unless you are bias .. I would love to hear some examples of how the eye test is wrong for actual NBA players ...
Yes. What do you think (traditional) scouting was, except the eye test applied by experts to incoming (or perhaps on-the-market) players? That's exactly and precisely what it was.
Traditional scouting was pretty much the gold-standard version of the "eye test". Any fan can immediately rattle off draft failures, or even failures involving veterans in things like free agency.
And again, one wonders why billionaires are throwing hundreds of thousands or even >1M dollars on something that is useless and provides no incremental value. I guess literally every single one became stupid overnight.
Or maybe, just maybe...analytics has something to add over and above the eye test. Maybe. Perhaps.