Coach’s Diary
Posted on September 7, 2022
During the course of an amazing summer we have had the opportunity to meet with and talk to an assortment of dedicated basketball coaches from youth leagues to Division 1. The top analytical coaches are interested in being able to track their personalized specifications. For example, how successful is our 4-out-1-in set offense? What group […]
Posted on July 27, 2022
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 […]
Posted on July 9, 2022
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 […]
Posted on July 6, 2022
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 […]
Posted on June 1, 2022
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 […]
Posted on May 14, 2022
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 […]
Posted on March 12, 2022
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 […]
Posted on February 28, 2022
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 […]
Posted on February 10, 2022
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 […]
Posted on January 21, 2022
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 […]