How Analytics Made Me a Better Basketball Player, with Shane Battier
Two-time NBA champion Shane Battier demonstrates examples of advanced basketball analytics and how they contribute to a team's game plan. Data allows for ...
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Sports are about gaining the competitive advantage and for so long the traditional ways of gaining the advantage is through harder training. You know basketball which I played it was honing your jump shot. It was working harder in the weight room to become faster, jump a little higher. I was lucky to sort of grow up in sort of the golden age of analytics as it pertains to basketball in the age of really the emergence of big data and sports. The way I look at it is it’s just another way like honing your jump shot or honing your jump hook or getting faster or stronger to gain a competitive advantage on the basketball court, this time using numbers and data. Before I really learned analytics I tried to guard a guy, Kobe Bryant, who in my estimation was the toughest competitor that I ever playe...
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Sports are about gaining the competitive advantage and for so long the traditional ways of gaining the advantage is through harder training. You know basketball which I played it was honing your jump shot. It was working harder in the weight room to become faster, jump a little higher. I was lucky to sort of grow up in sort of the golden age of analytics as it pertains to basketball in the age of really the emergence of big data and sports. The way I look at it is it’s just another way like honing your jump shot or honing your jump hook or getting faster or stronger to gain a competitive advantage on the basketball court, this time using numbers and data. Before I really learned analytics I tried to guard a guy, Kobe Bryant, who in my estimation was the toughest competitor that I ever playe...
