I recently moved from my longtime high school gig to a volunteer position working for my old college coach. While I certainly miss running my own program I am really enjoying the ability to delve into Advanced Analytics utilizing Synergy data and the freedom to experiment with technology like 360 Cameras Read More
(This article continues the thinking described in the recent “Is the Whole Truly Better than the Sum of the Parts?” article.) This past season we spent considerable time and several Hoop Coach articles trying to arrive at a method for coaches to obtain an accurate number to ascribe to an Read More
The cute, little aphorism of the “whole being greater than the sum of the parts” as it applies to basketball teams is usually meant to describe over-achieving teams whose personnel is generally regarded as not as strong as a number of its opponents. The saying is meant to be a Read More
On the heels of our last article, NBA Hustle Stats, we’d like to offer some additional stats to consider tracking for your program-if you already don’t use some or all. Of course, not all coaches are stat oriented but for those who are, any stats have value that can be Read More
Picking up where we left off on a past Hoop Coach post entitled, “Passes Per Possession-an Eye-Opening Metric”, we’re going to examine another aspect of that very topic. Choose a game at random from last season and chart every catch your players make. Then decide and chart whether the catch’s subsequent Read More
Previous posts have dealt with grading one’s players’ intangible qualities as an add-on to any advanced stats evaluations one does. Certainly, putting a number on a character or personality trait is a fairly subjective exercise. It is definitely not founded in science or math. However, it might be surprising to Read More
