Twitter is a very weird corner of the internet, full of a countless number of lanes.
For example, you have Black Twitter. You also have Pineapple on Pizza Twitter. We can keep going. There’s Football Twitter, ForEx Twitter, Academic Twitter, Tech Twitter, Weird Twitter.
And then you have Basketball Twitter, which feels like some sort of twisted amalgamation of all the Twitters put together. It’s also where you can find some of the most interesting characters on the app.
With that being the case, though, I’m not sure anybody would’ve put money on the person running the Velveeta Cheese Twitter account being a member of Basketball Twitter.
We have no idea who runs this account, but it’s definitely somebody from basketball Twitter. And not just a member, but an esteemed member.
Who else would drop a scorching hot take like this on VORP?
VORP IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE BC THE FORMULA FOR REPLACEMENT PLAYER FEELS ARBITRARY AND ULTIMATELY UNSATISFYING- LIKE COMPARING A KNOWN AGAINST AN HYPOTHETICAL, WIN SHARES ARE HELPFUL BUT DISREGARDS A PLAYER'S CONTEXT WHICH IS TOO IMPORTANT TO DISMISS – U?
— Velveeta (@EatLiquidGold) November 2, 2020
Only a basketball nerd would drop a scathing critique of raw plus-minus while calling Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf the most underrated player in NBA history. By the way, this is a take I can get behind!
2020, the year that processed cheese companies turned against the analytics movement pic.twitter.com/RiTl3VyAGX
— Steve Helwick (@s_helwick) November 2, 2020
They even have takes on Rudy Gobert’s true value as a defender in today’s NBA, where threes are more valuable than anything else.
WE ARE BULLISH ON RUDY BUT WE LOVE RIM PROTECTION- PEOPLE THINK THE 3 IS THE QUEEN RIGHT NOW BUT ITS 3'S AND SHOTS ON THE RIM. A SOLID RIM PROTECTOR WHO ISN'T A TURNOVER/FT LIABILITY HELPS WINS GAMES
— Velveeta (@EatLiquidGold) November 2, 2020
And I’m not even sure what this Collin Sexton take is, but I do know it’s the correct take.
THERE'S TOO MUCH PARITY RIGHT NOW- LIKE DOES COLLIN SEXTON'S UNADJUSTED ON-OFF TELL YOU SOMETHING COMPARED TO GARY TRENT'S? IT'S ALMOST LIKE COMPARING ERAS? WHAT U THINK
— Velveeta (@EatLiquidGold) November 2, 2020
They also had a solid take on basketball analytics and reliance on advanced metrics as a whole.
OVERALL I THINK WE FORGET ANALYTICS IS GREAT FOR FINDING SMALL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PLAYERS BUT USING IT SOLELY FOR PLAYER EVALUATION IS AGAINST ITS INTENDED USE- PIPM RELIES TOO MUCH ON BOX SCORE AND WE HAVEN'T WEIGHTED BOX SCORES CORRECTLY IN TERMS OF IMPACT ON A GAME
— Velveeta (@EatLiquidGold) November 2, 2020
Yes, this is definitely a Basketball Twitter veteran. Can’t tell me otherwise. Of course, Basketball Twitter actually loved this.
How is Velveeta providing more nuanced discussions about analytics and its usage than the majority of NBA analysis in media https://t.co/kwteKx7rnH
— Mohamed (@MoeSquare) November 2, 2020
Velveeta out here doubling as an NBA twitter burner. https://t.co/h3yMsPcO8i
— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) November 2, 2020
you're my new favorite NBA twitter follow, Velveeta
— Alex Regla (@AlexmRegla) November 2, 2020
Ahhh, yes, a classic “what would an analytics guru tweet to alert their followers they’re being held captive by Velveeta” tweets https://t.co/VICBlIlFHe
— Caitlin Cooper (@C2_Cooper) November 2, 2020
the person running the velveeta twitter account is probably more qualified to work in an nba analytics department than 90% of draft tweeter https://t.co/VZlnmY7dtY
— sam (@skt775) November 2, 2020
Yeah, we need to figure out who this is ASAP.
