fuckyeanba: I remember hearing about this pass before actually seeing it. Jason said he’d practiced a fake behind-the-back in some interview during NBA Inside Stuff or something, but instead of Rondo’s cup-the-ball feint, Williams uses his opposite elbow to bounce the ball to the side he was initially dribbling from. It wasn’t that effective on this play, and I only saw him do it one other time in his career, but the sheer ingenuity of the fake is dazzling. It’s something you’d have to be a gym rat to invent and a superior ball-handling virtuoso to actually pull off in an NBA game. It wasn’t like his earlier ball fakes and wrap-arounds, but a more nuanced level of deception that escaped the defender’s notice. It was like Jason was too cunning and too fast with the concotion to be effective. Plus, it was a behind-the-back fake, which is really two fakes, and because the ball actually left the hand he’s faking with, there’s no holding on to the ball for a longer period of time, or trying to lay the ball in; it’s a pass, from the moment of its inception. Whether it was at another level or it was superficial to the moment, it always appears more amazing than its efficiency and frequency realized. 
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fuckyeanba:

I remember hearing about this pass before actually seeing it. Jason said he’d practiced a fake behind-the-back in some interview during NBA Inside Stuff or something, but instead of Rondo’s cup-the-ball feint, Williams uses his opposite elbow to bounce the ball to the side he was initially dribbling from.

It wasn’t that effective on this play, and I only saw him do it one other time in his career, but the sheer ingenuity of the fake is dazzling. It’s something you’d have to be a gym rat to invent and a superior ball-handling virtuoso to actually pull off in an NBA game. It wasn’t like his earlier ball fakes and wrap-arounds, but a more nuanced level of deception that escaped the defender’s notice. It was like Jason was too cunning and too fast with the concotion to be effective.

Plus, it was a behind-the-back fake, which is really two fakes, and because the ball actually left the hand he’s faking with, there’s no holding on to the ball for a longer period of time, or trying to lay the ball in; it’s a pass, from the moment of its inception. Whether it was at another level or it was superficial to the moment, it always appears more amazing than its efficiency and frequency realized. 

Redefining NBA Basketball Positions through data analysis via FlowingData: For the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference a few weeks ago, Stanford biomechanical engineering student and Ayasdi analyst Muthu Alagappan presented his work on redefining basketball positions. After studying players like LeBron James and Blake Griffin, many analysts are now suggesting that there are new positions, which are simply hybrids of the one’s we already had. For example, some players are now labeled “point-forwards” or “combo-guards.” But what if we were wrong about our initial five positions. Maybe a “Center” is just a label for people over a certain height, and there are actually three different types of big men in the NBA. An analysis, done with data exploration tool Ayasdi Iris, provided 13 possible positions, as shown above. Nodes and edges are colored by points per minute on a blue (low) to red (high) scale. Go read the rest here.
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Redefining NBA Basketball Positions through data analysis

via FlowingData:

For the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference a few weeks ago, Stanford biomechanical engineering student and Ayasdi analyst Muthu Alagappan presented his work on redefining basketball positions.

After studying players like LeBron James and Blake Griffin, many analysts are now suggesting that there are new positions, which are simply hybrids of the one’s we already had. For example, some players are now labeled “point-forwards” or “combo-guards.” But what if we were wrong about our initial five positions. Maybe a “Center” is just a label for people over a certain height, and there are actually three different types of big men in the NBA.

An analysis, done with data exploration tool Ayasdi Iris, provided 13 possible positions, as shown above. Nodes and edges are colored by points per minute on a blue (low) to red (high) scale.

Go read the rest here.

nbaoffseason: Welcome to the NBA via “Spatial and Visual Analytics” or Court Vision for short. Basically this dude Kirk Goldsberry mapped out every shot in the NBA from the last 5 seasons to see if he could find any trends or surprise stats through black magic science. Essentially, Red means more shots made, and Blue means more shots bricked. Click on over to his site if you want to see what else he found out and how Deron Williams measures up against Rajon Rondo. “In the quest to better understand the “average” NBA shooter I have begun making composite shooting charts for each position in the league. My eventual goal is to establish a spatially informed baseline and to map every shooter in the league against an average shooter. These charts are not good for that task, but they’re interesting nonetheless. Here are composite shooting charts for each of the 5 conventional basketball positions. I combined the shooting data for every player in positional groups. There are some bizarre trends including some fascinating asymmetries.” - Kirk Goldsberry
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nbaoffseason: Welcome to the NBA via “Spatial and Visual Analytics” or Court Vision for short. Basically this dude Kirk Goldsberry mapped out every shot in the NBA from the last 5 seasons to see if he could find any trends or surprise stats through black magic science. Essentially, Red means more shots made, and Blue means more shots bricked. Click on over to his site if you want to see what else he found out and how Deron Williams measures up against Rajon Rondo. “In the quest to better understand the “average” NBA shooter I have begun making composite shooting charts for each position in the league. My eventual goal is to establish a spatially informed baseline and to map every shooter in the league against an average shooter. These charts are not good for that task, but they’re interesting nonetheless. Here are composite shooting charts for each of the 5 conventional basketball positions. I combined the shooting data for every player in positional groups. There are some bizarre trends including some fascinating asymmetries.” - Kirk Goldsberry
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nbaoffseason: Welcome to the NBA via “Spatial and Visual Analytics” or Court Vision for short. Basically this dude Kirk Goldsberry mapped out every shot in the NBA from the last 5 seasons to see if he could find any trends or surprise stats through black magic science. Essentially, Red means more shots made, and Blue means more shots bricked. Click on over to his site if you want to see what else he found out and how Deron Williams measures up against Rajon Rondo. “In the quest to better understand the “average” NBA shooter I have begun making composite shooting charts for each position in the league. My eventual goal is to establish a spatially informed baseline and to map every shooter in the league against an average shooter. These charts are not good for that task, but they’re interesting nonetheless. Here are composite shooting charts for each of the 5 conventional basketball positions. I combined the shooting data for every player in positional groups. There are some bizarre trends including some fascinating asymmetries.” - Kirk Goldsberry
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nbaoffseason: Welcome to the NBA via “Spatial and Visual Analytics” or Court Vision for short. Basically this dude Kirk Goldsberry mapped out every shot in the NBA from the last 5 seasons to see if he could find any trends or surprise stats through black magic science. Essentially, Red means more shots made, and Blue means more shots bricked. Click on over to his site if you want to see what else he found out and how Deron Williams measures up against Rajon Rondo. “In the quest to better understand the “average” NBA shooter I have begun making composite shooting charts for each position in the league. My eventual goal is to establish a spatially informed baseline and to map every shooter in the league against an average shooter. These charts are not good for that task, but they’re interesting nonetheless. Here are composite shooting charts for each of the 5 conventional basketball positions. I combined the shooting data for every player in positional groups. There are some bizarre trends including some fascinating asymmetries.” - Kirk Goldsberry
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nbaoffseason: Welcome to the NBA via “Spatial and Visual Analytics” or Court Vision for short. Basically this dude Kirk Goldsberry mapped out every shot in the NBA from the last 5 seasons to see if he could find any trends or surprise stats through black magic science. Essentially, Red means more shots made, and Blue means more shots bricked. Click on over to his site if you want to see what else he found out and how Deron Williams measures up against Rajon Rondo. “In the quest to better understand the “average” NBA shooter I have begun making composite shooting charts for each position in the league. My eventual goal is to establish a spatially informed baseline and to map every shooter in the league against an average shooter. These charts are not good for that task, but they’re interesting nonetheless. Here are composite shooting charts for each of the 5 conventional basketball positions. I combined the shooting data for every player in positional groups. There are some bizarre trends including some fascinating asymmetries.” - Kirk Goldsberry
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nbaoffseason:

Welcome to the NBA via “Spatial and Visual Analytics” or Court Vision for short. Basically this dude Kirk Goldsberry mapped out every shot in the NBA from the last 5 seasons to see if he could find any trends or surprise stats through black magic science. Essentially, Red means more shots made, and Blue means more shots bricked. Click on over to his site if you want to see what else he found out and how Deron Williams measures up against Rajon Rondo.

“In the quest to better understand the “average” NBA shooter I have begun making composite shooting charts for each position in the league. My eventual goal is to establish a spatially informed baseline and to map every shooter in the league against an average shooter. These charts are not good for that task, but they’re interesting nonetheless.

Here are composite shooting charts for each of the 5 conventional basketball positions. I combined the shooting data for every player in positional groups. There are some bizarre trends including some fascinating asymmetries.”

- Kirk Goldsberry

Jeremy Lin’s line vs the Lakers tonight: 38 PTS 13-23 4 RB 7 AST 6 TO As a Knicks fan, I was holding my breath all week waiting to see what he’d do in tonight’s game vs the Lakers. Fortunately he was phenomenal. Best part, though, was at halftime when ESPN reporter Lisa Salters didn’t believe Lin when he said that he was going to the locker room to study film of the first half to figure out what he could do better. Can’t wait to see that clip online.
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Jeremy Lin’s line vs the Lakers tonight:

38 PTS 13-23 4 RB 7 AST 6 TO

As a Knicks fan, I was holding my breath all week waiting to see what he’d do in tonight’s game vs the Lakers. Fortunately he was phenomenal.

Best part, though, was at halftime when ESPN reporter Lisa Salters didn’t believe Lin when he said that he was going to the locker room to study film of the first half to figure out what he could do better. Can’t wait to see that clip online.

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