NBA Teams Using Missile Tracking Systems to Statistically Analyze Player Productivity
By Taylor Bloom – Email – Articles – Twitter – Sport Techie Facebook Put yourself in the position of an NBA coach. Imagine you can track every movement, play, and decision performed by every one of your players during a game and be able to statistically analyze the efficiency and inefficiency of every on-court action. You could have real time updates of Russell Westbrook’s field goal percentage after he takes five dribbles versus his field goal percentage after he takes two dribbles. Or you could have up to the minute measurements of how many miles Kevin Durant has run and what his average speed was half way through the third quarter. For the Oklahoma City Thunder and nine other NBA teams, this type of analysis and much more...