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 […]
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Matchup (+/-) An Overlooked, Old-School Advanced Stat
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 […]
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Experimenting with 360 Cameras and Virtual Reality for Basketball
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 […]
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“One-offs”- Plays That Often Fall Through the Cracks
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 […]
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Do You Have a System For Evaluating Your Players on Defense?
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 […]
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Playing Rotation Thoughts for Coaches
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 […]
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