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If you were to ask me what any coach with any kind of talent can realistically set as goals to increase his team’s competitive edge, I would immediately spit out “don’t foul and don’t turn the ball over.” Many would argue that statistically these are the worst two plays in basketball. To large degrees, most…
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 and Virtual Reality to teach…
(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 individual player for his performance…
Whether we like it or not, we all inherently understand that turnovers are a part of the game. In general, most of us have a number or a percentage of possessions in our minds that is tolerable. For the old-school, it might be a raw number like 12 or 15; for others, it might be…
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 compliment and is usually taken…
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 used as teaching tools, motivators…