When the Sixers hired Colangelo to run the team in 2016, one of Colangelo's priorities was to amplify the presence of analytics and sports science. Within a year he had turned a three-man staff into a stable of 10 geniuses. By February, they could tell him how Ilyasova defended every other power forward in the NBA, and they could tell him that Belinelli's sometimes-wild shot selection is, for him, an efficient strategy.