Vlade Divac and the Sacramento are “strongly opposed to analytics”. That must be the case since they fired analytics guru, Dean Oliver, right?
Over analyzed by many media outlets, the firing of Dean Oliver, who had a long working relationship with former Kings GM, Pete D’Alessandro, was not the team’s declaration of their dislike of analytics but just another example of a new team President dismissing individuals from the previous regime and hiring his own team. The question remains…was Dean Oliver irreplaceable?
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Vlade Divac proved the answer to that question is definitely no, as evidenced by his hiring of Roland Beech on Saturday afternoon.