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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 the amount of made three pointers per game over the 10 last seasons. While you have players like Steph Curry knocking down long 3’s with Read More
When you listen to our football coaching brothers talking about “sudden change”, some of them make it sound like some revolutionary thing happens on the football field, when in reality all that occurs is a turnover and a change of possession. Basketball coaches usually don’t use the term sudden change Read More
In a past article, “Space and Pace: A Modern Perspective”, we promised some further thoughts on the simple notions of time and space in basketball. Before we do, I’d like to remind readers who are old enough to remember and enlighten those who aren’t that there have been some very Read More
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 find our best offensive and defensive lineups. To find our most efficient lineups we need to break down the points allowed, the points scored for Read More
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 coach I was not looking for the five best players to choose as a starting lineup, I was looking for the five players that played Read More
We get a lot of messages at Hoop Coach via email and social media asking what Director of Basketball Operations do and what the job actually entails. Below we copied one of the best Director of Basketball Operations job descriptions we have come across in our daily job posts. Read More