Another New Assistant Sergi Oliva

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complete overhaul. nice to see them adding different skills.

funny to see woj tweet about all our assistants though. seems like these happen around the league and go unnoticed.

the athletic named him among the top 40 under 40 execs to watch: https://theathletic.com/3138225/202...basketball-world-and-the-future/?redirected=1

Oliva spent six seasons with the 76ers, where he was the VP and director of analytics and strategy. Now, he’s in his second on the bench behind Quin Snyder, where he can surely put his Ph.D. in computational complexity to work.

“He has a unique skillset,” Snyder said when Oliva came aboard. “He helped build their analytics program. He’s teaching me as we go.”
 
Hope this works out better than the last Sergei associated with the Blazers. Monia sucked.
 
BlazerBender said:
I really like this. Fresh faces and fresh minds. Can’t build something new without starting from the top down.
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Yeah for me it's killing a huge concern that I had that we were just the same FO we had with Olshey minus Neil. It's clear that is not what Joe wants and so I expect some very un-Olshey moves going forward. I also hope the great purge of February 2022 is the last time we see this front office value salary flexibility over talent.
 
This Cronin guy seems to be on it. I can't remember another off season when we had a legit shot at landing so many legitimate long, athletic, 2 way players.
 
illmatic99 said:
I'm surprised no one commented on his supposed PhD in "computational complexity."

That is a degree offering?

Edit: holy hell, it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity
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It is not a degree offering, it is a specialty in Math with real applications in computer science. I was lucky enough to study under some people that worked with Dijkstra which developed some of the early graph algorithms, as you can imagine, it is super important in Networking (error correcting codes), Machine Learning, cryptography and just basic algorithm design.

If you have ever heard the term "the travelling salesman problem" - this is a classic computational complexity problem you will teach to any computer science students in any institute that teaches it as a science instead of simple a vocation.
 
andalusian said:
If you have ever heard the term "the travelling salesman problem" - this is a classic computational complexity problem....
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it doubles as a spelling problem

I tried but I couldn't resist being an ass
 
andalusian said:
It is not a degree offering, it is a specialty in Math with real applications in computer science. I was lucky enough to study under some people that worked with Dijkstra which developed some of the early graph algorithms, as you can imagine, it is super important in Networking (error correcting codes), Machine Learning, cryptography and just basic algorithm design.

If you have ever heard the term "the travelling salesman problem" - this is a classic computational complexity problem you will teach to any computer science students in any institute that teaches it as a science instead of simple a vocation.
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good insight.

and you can sorta see how this sorta skillset would be useful in an analytics role.

since he joined Utah, they started chucking so many threes. specifically, from the corner.
maybe that's a result of him telling them to do so. obviously, that's oversimplifying the analytic input, but it's a gist.

Also, the last two years, their offense has ranked 3rd and 1st, while defense has ranked 4th and 9th. i'd do whatever they did to replicate that in the regular season.
 
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