r/ChicagoSky • u/GlacialTwitch • 23h ago
DISCUSSION Hirsh: The All-Stars the Sky could’ve had are coming to Chicago
The All-Stars the Sky could’ve had are coming to Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times
Love this part about Miles. I made a post about the same thing--that the Sky have no idea how to forecast the chances that they will be bad when they trade a pick/swap while thinking they will be good.
“You have to get lucky,” Lynx head of basketball operations Cheryl Reeve admitted when discussing Miles ending up in Minnesota. “Lottery balls have to go your way.”
Beside the aw-shucks modesty from Reeve was also a bit of a flex.
“Obviously, at the 2024 draft, we wanted to take a swing at a lottery pick in 2026,” she said. “That’s what you do when you’re trying to project teams. We have people who get paid to project for us.”
Catch the subtle reminder that the Lynx have invested in number-crunching and forecasting in a way the Sky, and many other teams, have not?
The front office desperately needs to add scouting and analytics departments : r/ChicagoSky
