Basketball Analytics, Coaching Tips and Innovative Hacks
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 […] →Read more
My coaching mentor, coach Sky Nelson, was always adamant about lining up for free throws defensively in a particular way. He stressed having a player even with the free throw line, on the shooters left, at the three point line. In his 30 year coaching career, he recounted to me losing some games due to […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more
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 […] →Read more
One of the teams using Hoopsalytics offered to share their insights with us for the first ten games of the basketball season. They have been breaking down which kind of shots their team has been taking, and came to a horrible realization: They were 1 for 36 on jump shots. 1 for 36! And according […] →Read more
Actions speak louder than words, especially when it comes to see who is putting forth the most effort to get better on your team. You can see who is hustling most in practice, but what about off the court? Which players are the most motivated to learn? Hoopsalytics has a way to measure that. From […] →Read more
Piece by piece, set by set, practice by practice, the work is adding up. Getting uniforms on and playing non-conference games has not only been fun and competitive but we are finding out more and more about our team and it’s been interesting seeing the guys bond and grow as a unit. Quick recap: We […] →Read more
One of the basketball newsletters I receive had an interesting post about Pearson’s Law of Accountability. Pearson developed an idea about performance which has proven true for over 100 years: When performance is measured, performance improves. And when performance reported back, the rate of performance accelerates. Claims are that by reporting back performance, the acceleration rate […] →Read more
Without a doubt, basketball scrimmages are essential at the high school level for assessing the quality of your players and team. Playing against outside competition allows the players to see how they stack up and lets coaches tinker with different combinations and recognize what works and doesn’t. In our case, the two pre-season scrimmages were […] →Read more
In order to best evaluate the ability and competitiveness of the players, for the first 30 minutes of each practice we use a training camp shooting workout that achieves evaluation goals as well as creates positive repetitive benefits. Each player is required to work on high release point, footwork, shooting rhythm, and results. We start […] →Read more