Mark Cuban explains why Charles Barkley

Mark Cuban explains why Charles Barkley is 'half-right' with his rant against using math to build teams in the NBA Cork Gaines Feb. 13, 2015, 1:11 PM 12,437 5 facebook linkedin coach factory outlet online twitter email coach purse outlet print Charles Barkley has some strong opinions about math. Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images TNT's NBA analyst Charles Barkley created a bit of firestorm on Tuesday and in essence started a war against math when he went on a rant against using advanced stats in the NBA. Barkley's argument was quickly shot down in many circles. However, one prominent NBA owner, Mark Cuban, came to Barkley's defense declaring the former NBA MVP to be "half-right" during an interview for 105.3 the Fan in Dallas. Barkley's rant started as a response to criticism from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey. Best part of being at a TNT game live is it is easy to avoid Charles spewing misinformed biased vitriol disguised as entertainment— Daryl Morey (@dmorey) February 11, 2015 Morey and the Rockets are widely regarded as the most progressive team in the NBA, fully embracing advanced stats and in some respects, reinventing the way the game of basketball is being played at the NBA level. Barkley fired back during TNT's NBA studio show, saying Morey is "one of those idiots who believe in analytics." Barkley went on to say that analytics don't work and that they are "just some crap some people who are really smart made up to try to get in the game because they had no talent." While Barkley has certainly gone too far in his criticism, Cuban explained why Barkley is not as far off as many believe. Cuban's biggest point is that you can learn things through the use of advanced stats, but that there is no longer much of an advantage to it. "When a couple of teams are using [advanced stats], you can get an advantage," Cuban told 105.3 the Fan. "When everybody is using it, your advantage is pretty much gone. That’s where analytics has gotten to now, where pretty much every NBA team uses analytics — at least some degree." This is the same problem the Oakland A's ran into with "Moneyball" in Major League Baseball. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Despite the misunderstandings of many, "Moneyball" at its core is simply looking for market inefficiencies. That is, looking for positive traits in players that other teams are overlooking, and hence are undervaluing, and often advanced stats are used to reach that goal. The problem for the A's, which general manager Billy Beane has acknowledged, is that now the cat is out of the bag and all teams in Major League Baseball are using advanced stats to some degree. So it is not that "Moneyball" didn't work or has coach purse outlet stopped working. Rather, it is that it has become much harder to find something that other teams have missed. Basketball has the added element of being more of a team sport as opposed to baseball which is often a one-on-one battle between a pitcher and a batter. This is something that Cuban also touched on. Cuban points out that the Mavs have signed players who don't grade well under advanced stats, such as Monta coach outlet stores Ellis, because he "knew that [the Mavs] could make him better." The feeling was that he had never played with the same level of coach outlet stores players or coaches. So when Barkley says analytics don't work at all and that successful teams don't use them, he is wrong. But instead of using them for an advantage, now teams have to use them to keep from falling behind. NOW WATCH: Cristiano Ronaldo, wearing a wig and glasses, surprised a young fan on the streets of Madrid coach factory outlet website Loading video... More: NBA Charles Barkley Mark Cuban

Another Victory for U.S.-China Joint IP Enforcement

Another Victory for U.S.-China Joint IP Enforcement Stan Abrams, China Hearsay Nov. 19, 2012, 5:53 AM 1 facebook linkedin twitter coach purse outlet email print Stan Abrams coach purse outlet Stan Abrams is a Beijing-based IP/IT lawyer and law professor. Recent Posts Beijing Smog Could Be Making Its Way Over To California In Defense of China’s Golden Week Airpocalypse Now: I Love the Smell of coach purses outlet Emphysema in the Morning This is becoming a common occurrence, which is a good thing: Chinese police, working with US law enforcers, uncovered a major transnational criminal case of manufacturing and exporting fake international brands and arrested 73 suspects. The police has [sic] confiscated over 20,000 counterfeit bags branded as Louis Vuitton, Hermes or Coach, closed 37 illegal sites for the production and sale of such bags, and found that the suspects have manufactured and sold more than 960,000 such fake bags, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement Sunday. (Xinhua) So these were counterfeits manufactured in Guangdong and exported to the U.S. (among other places). The illegal activity at issue was trademark infringement, and the authorities involved included the PRC Public Security Bureau and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Not only was property seized and individuals arrested, but there was also online activity here that was stopped. This kind of joint task force covers all the bases and is typical of how law enforcement is dealing with international counterfeiting these days. Moreover, this was a fairly large group that had manufactured a large number of infringing bags. This ring was substantial and therefore worth the time and effort of the authorities, both here and in the U.S. As I’ve said before, I wonder if we will see, sometime coach purse outlet in the future, a situation where most of the large-scale infringers out coach outlet stores there are rolled up by the police, leaving only a scattering of de minimis wrongdoers who are simply too small to go after. I definitely see that happening with small websites that offer downloads of copyrighted works but whose traffic is insignificant. We might see the same dynamic with counterfeiters. In the meantime, expect to see more large-scale joint enforcement cases. © Stan for China Hearsay, 2012. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: anti-counterfeiting Read more posts coach factory outlet website on China Hearsay » Read the original article on China Hearsay. Copyright 2012. More from China Hearsay:China to allow online sales of prescription drugs…China’s Anticorruption Campaign Drives Out M.B.A….+1 RT @SirSteven: sit back a moment and imagine ho…