A sneaky good way to further separate oneself from the pack is recognizing, understanding and appreciating the significant number of plays a game fall into […]
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Posting Up or Backing Down: Creating Pockets of Space
Advanced basketball analytics have driven NBA teams to put a premium on three point attempts per game and, in doing so, teams have essentially doubled […]
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LineUp Analysis – Finding Your Best Defensive and Offensive Group
In a past blog post we discussed Advanced Lineup Analysis using Scoring Differential, in this post we are going to go one step further and […]
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Advanced Lineup Analysis with Smaller Lineups
When I was high school head coach and it came to choose starters for our first scrimmage I always gave the same speech. As a […]
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Space and Pace: A Modern Basketball Perspective
Whether or not we as coaches consciously think of basketball in terms of space and time, we would be hard-pressed to argue against the notion […]
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Using Expected Value to Define a “Good Shot”
Undoubtedly over the course of a season you will hear a coach or broadcaster refer to a player taking a shot just inside the three […]
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