Excerpts from John Hollinger's Per Diem.

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    Hollinger is a geek, a nerd, a numbers cruncher.

    He has no ability to calculate/incorporate players' feelings, personalities, or even skillsets into his bone-dry conclusions.
     
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    He does, in fact, incorporate "skill sets" into his opinions.

    Personalities? Feelings? When you are making a 7 or 8 figure salary, you aren't entitled to those things. I don't care if Miller is boffing Roy's mother - on the basketball court, they are paid to get along. Period. No F'n excuses.
     
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    Additionally, none of those things have much of anything to do with an analysis of production. In terms of PROJECTING production, those intangibles can certainly increase or decrease future efficacy, but the fact that Oden might have been in a bad mood all season last year had precious little relevance when comparing him to other NBA centers.

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