The kenpom.com blog. By Ken Pomeroy on Thursday, July 24, 2014 This is the third and final part of my series of whether to foul when the game is tied and the shot clock is off.
If you missed part 1 and part 2, don’t worry, you’re joining us just in time. The kenpom.com blog. By Ken Pomeroy on Monday, August 1, 2005 The offensive and defensive summary pages are based on Dean Oliver’s four factors concept.
Kirk Goldsberry introduces a new way to understand the NBA's best scorers. LeBron James is the best player in the world.
That may be obvious to anyone who has watched basketball over the past few years, but for some reason it’s hard to find many statistics to support this claim. Back when Michael Jordan ruled the NBA, he would commonly lead the league in points per game; Chamberlain and Russell put up insane rebounding numbers; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the league’s all-time leading scorer. James recently joined those giants as one of the five NBA players to win four MVP awards. Despite that impressive feat, his dominance is not reflected in conventional basketball stats. Body Language. How Denver's Old Dribble-Drive Offense Could Be the Perfect Fit for the Revamped Pelicans.
This has been an offseason filled with change for the New Orleans Pelicans.
The franchise not only ditched its nickname but also overhauled its personnel through two trades and one surprising free-agent signing. Out with the Hornets moniker were Robin Lopez and Greivis Vasquez — two players responsible for more than 60 combined minutes a night last season. Taking at least some of those minutes will be All-Star guard Jrue Holiday and Tyreke Evans. Behind the scenes with the South Dakota State Jackrabbits, from Selection Sunday to their season-ending loss to Michigan. We knew how this story would end.
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College basketball's scoring problem and West Liberty University coach Jim Crutchfield. People often ask Jim Crutchfield to describe his system, and he has nothing to show them.
He does not possess any notes, he has never put anything on video, and the only time he spoke at a coaching clinic, it was because he was trying to angle for an exhibition against a nearby Division I team (a game that has yet to be scheduled, and may never be scheduled). Everything he knows about basketball is filed and collated between his graying temples.
The SportVU Follow-up: Answering the Most Common Questions and More Ghost Raptors. I have a ton of cool information from the Raptors’ analytics program that didn’t fit in yesterday’s original big-picture piece, so I wanted to share at least some of it here.
A roundup of leftover thoughts on analytics, the evolution of the NBA, and the Raptors: • The two most common responses I got from both league executives and fans were versions of: 1. Holy cow! The Raptors are way ahead of (Insert Team X) in gleaning useful data from the SportVU camera systems. 2. The Toronto Raptors, SportVU cameras, and the NBA's analytical revolution.
New technology and statistics will change the way we understand basketball, even if they also create friction between coaches and front-office personnel trying to integrate new concepts into on-court play.
The most important innovation in the NBA in recent years is a camera-tracking system, known as SportVU, that records every movement on the floor and spits it back at its front-office keepers as a byzantine series of geometric coordinates. Fifteen NBA teams have purchased the cameras, which cost about $100,000 per year, from STATS LLC; turning those X-Y coordinates into useful data is the main challenge those teams face. Some teams are just starting with the cameras, while others that bought them right away are far ahead and asking very interesting questions. Is Rockets GM Daryl Morey's plan finally working in Houston? I t was only eight months ago that the perception of Daryl Morey and the Houston Rockets in some NBA circles had shifted from ahead-of-the-curve trailblazers to borderline laughingstocks who accrued little more than burned-up cell phone minutes.
Dwight Howard had joined Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony on the list of superstars who had eluded the Rockets, despite iPad presentations and a nonstop flurry of gain-an-inch deals that had netted Houston some prime trade assets. By August, the Rockets had parted ways with two starting-caliber point guards, splurged on two unproven free agents in Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik, and on the surface looked like a franchise without a clear path up from mediocrity.
The kenpom.com blog. By Ken Pomeroy on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 I’m a little late to the party on discussing the fouling-up-3 strategy, but for a while I’ve been wanting to interrogate play-by-play data to get a handle on the approach. Not that it matters, but I’ve believed it usually makes sense to foul in these situations and it’s been heartening to see that analysts across the sport have embraced the idea. Contrast that with old-school baseball folks that still struggle accepting that a sacrifice bunt is usually a bad idea despite a large amount of analytical work that backs it up.