management Stories - Denver Stiffs
How Long Should A Team Stick With Average Management?
Beginning with "Darryl Sutter - Decidedly Average" and continuing through "Marginal Playoff Efficiency - Marginal Spending Where The Playoffs Matter", I spent the month of October attempting to measure management efficiency using cap expenditure as a constant. Each new metric came at the behest of...
We Miss You Kevin Lowe
This was originally scheduled to be an article about the penalty kill. I was going to do some additional analysis, show a really funny screen cap of the Vancouver game where Theo Peckham was charging at the point defenseman and two seconds later Vancouver scored. But I'm getting tired of harping...
Minor Site Changes
Hey ya'll. On the eve of Free Agency 2010, Jordan, Tanner, and I have decided that in order to maximize our value on the market, we would change our screen names to our actual names. This doesn't have much effect on jsams or tsteidel, but a more noticeable effect on myself. I'll reference you to a...
No Advance Scout, No Problem
SI's Steve Aschburner writes Friday about how several NBA teams have done away with the position of advance scout, the experienced basketball hand who would take in the next opponent's game, then provide the head coach with a detailed report. The Nets are...
Nets Gate Receipts Drop a League Record 29%
If you're still wondering how bad things are for the Nets financially, wonder no more. An analysis of a confidential NBA report for the 2008-09 season obtained by CBS Sports shows the Nets' gate receipts dropped 29% from 2007-08. That's a loss of $11.4...
As Revenues Fall, Nets' Front Office Shrinks
In addition to the ten staffers laid off two weeks ago, ten other front office positions haven't been filled, reports Sports Business Journal. That brings team staff down to 120, a 15% drop from a high of 140 in late 2007. Team revenue has dropped from $100...
Nets CFO: We'll Be Among NBA's Most Valuable in Brooklyn
Charlie Mierswa, the Nets' Chief Financial Officer, is interviewed in this month's CFO Magazine. Mierswa offers both hope and reality in discussing team finances. He admits little is working in season ticket sales but it was worse last year! Mierswa also says...
Frank: Management "Belief" in Coach Key to Longevity
The longest tenured coach in the East thinks that long term commitment to individual coaches is about "belief". In an AP story about the tentative nature of NBA coaching, Lawrence Frank says, "To me, it's just a choice for management and ownership, if there's...
Nets Promote Polinsky
The Nets announced Wednesday that Gregg Polinsky has been named director of player personnel, a new position. Polinsky has been with the Nets since 1999 and was the team's director of scouting for the past three seasons. Before joining the Nets, he was a...
Meet the Nets' Draft Geek
Ken Catanella is the Nets' Coordinator of Statistical Analysis (who knew?). He has degrees from Amherst and Duke and has earned paychecks playing ball in Germany and valuing companies for possible acquistion. Now, he makes a living breaking down scouting...
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