Category: Coach’s Diary
As the daily morning open gym run continues through July, the feeling that the season is coming soon abounds. That is mostly due to looking at the varsity team starting lineup and players and spots available combined with the style of the head coach to determine who will take the two available starting jobs, and […]
High school summer basketball practice and tournament game play in California is in full-steam-ahead mode as seniors graduate and the underclassmen assume the responsibility of the vacancy above. No doubt there is a pecking order – unofficial, of course – among the players over playing time which hopefully leads to spirited competition. As a former […]
As I was researching articles and examples for our new Assist Map feature, I came across a completely stunning basketball hack I never considered: Modifying the inflated PSI pressure of the basketball to suit your team’s strengths. The New England Patriots in 2015 were caught doing this in a “cheating” sort of a way in […]
Coach Bill and I just returned from being a sponsor at the Memorial Day Weekend AAU Tournament in Reno hosted by JamOnIt. We met so many people passionate about basketball that it reaffirmed our commitment to bringing high quality analytics to players and coaches of all ages. At our sponsor booth, we demonstrated our Hooplalytics […]
As a relatively new (10 year) basketball coach, and a life-long entrepreneur, I’m starting to see parallels between running a successful business, and being a successful basketball coach. Most recently, I attended an offsite for a company I started eight years ago, and was intrigued as one of the board members recounted some of his […]
One of the observations I saw with my team this year is that we were streaky. We had some strong finishes to close a large hole we got ourselves into early in the game. With a relatively thin roster and some injuries, it made time management even more important. Hoopsalytics recently introduced a Game Flow […]
There are close to 4,000 high schools in the great state of California, the largest amount in America. Of those 3,892 schools, 3,162 are public and 730 are private. Out of that group of those schools, 170 high schools qualify for the California State High School Boys Basketball Tournament. Statistically, that is less than one […]
The playoffs have started and there is no other best way to gauge the success of your competitiveness this season than how far you go in the post-season. Our Boy’s Varsity team has been in the gym since September, playing together and against each other so much that the payoff has to happen. And now is […]
We are almost through our first cycle of league opponents and so far, so good. We’re 3-1 in conference play (10-2 overall), with one more to go: a big game tonight against the perennial biggest and baddest team in the league, if not the city. As an assistant on this team last year, we were […]
Watching your team win games never gets old. Live, video, it’s all good. But when you as a coach and your players perform a stinker of a game, as we did this past Saturday, watching that replay, it’s not easy. However! There’s much to be learned in defeat and despite knowing the film session wouldn’t […]