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Among the popular basketball analytics these days is one called usage rate. The concept is really quite simple as it merely means the number of possessions in a game that a player utilizes. The formula is easy to compute and only needs 4 standard hoop stats, FTA’s Assists FG’s Turnovers. Read More
In my playing days, one of my coaches told us that if each of outscored our matchup, we couldn’t lose the game. Of course, I and every one of my teammates wasn’t going to outscore every opponent every game but as a working concept, it seemed valid to me. That Read More
Over the past few years NBA Teams like the Washington Wizards and my Detroit Pistons have been experimenting with use of Virtual Reality to train their players and specifically to improve their Free Throw Shooting. One of the big companies in the market, STRIVR, claims Big improvement after practicing with Read More
One of the challenges we face as coaches is organizing our pre-season practices so that we don’t skip or gloss over any facet of the game. This dilemma is even more pronounced at the HS level where one might have 3 weeks or less to cover everything. It’s not surprising Read More
Earlier this summer in our article on Player Efficiency Rating (PER), we mentioned that it was pretty much accepted that arriving at an accurate defensive PER was problematic because of the nature of Blocks. Then, in our article on Empty Stats, we discussed another stat of dubious nature- the Steal. Read More
In a past article, “The Realities of Playing Rotations”, we shared some thoughts for players who were either totally left out of their playing rotations or believed they deserved expanded roles. We clearly gave coaches the benefit of the doubt. Today, we’ll examine some thoughts for coaches and give players Read More