frend30 from a statistical breakdown it is very helpful. Almost every team players stats ,box scores team predictions or power rankings etc team history , game by game ,conf stats ,home court,etc,etc But I don't know what there record is in predicting. Over 55% or under
Basketball sometimes gets to analytical and sometimes with only 5 players on the court and foul trouble involved it throws many of those stats out the window.
My philosophy is sometimes in a Walt Whitman poem .. the poem is from his " Leaves of Grass " book
. The poem is called " the Learned Astronomer" .. maybe you can paste it here. Its a short poem . when you read poetry its hard to understand what the poet is saying . If I don't know before hand what the poem and meaning is I'm lost. Emily Dickinson wrote so many poems and I couldn't figure out what she was trying to say . I knew "love " was her theme Walt was a different type of poet . But the Learned Astronomer hits home especially coaching basketball.. for 30 years .. Read the poem. Its about Walt listening in the audience to a world renown astronomer at a lecture . He gets bored and at some point leaves the lecture room and walks out on a balcony and looks up into the " mystical " beautiful sky full of stars. Forget all the charts and diagrams that the lecturer described .
I was coaching against a big time school that was 18-1 . Their coach who is in the NY State Hall of fame ran a 1-3-1 zone defense . The best possible zone . That's all he ran similar to Cuses Boehem's 2-3 zone. We knew he played it but still couldn't beat it. I'm down 1 point with the ball at mid court and use my last time out. I design a play " with charts and diagrams " like Whitman heard.. And then just before we break from the huddle my star player who was going to be a decoy on the last play said in the huddle. Coach get me the ball on the wing. I will beat my man at the wing,can get by their center and since I have such a height advantage over their 1 baseline defender. As we are breaking our huddle I give in and scratch the play and yell " get to ball to Scottie and let him go by himself. I yell to Scottie "no offensive foul " Well we inbound the ball,Scottie wind shield wipes the wing,drives by the center and glass swishes a layup at the buzzer. We win.. thank to Walt Whitman . Sometimes we over coach. I had the best 6'6 gd,fd center in the state of NY He avg almost 30 points a a game and I'm using him as a decoy.
Sometimes we use the ken poms and many other places reading into so many stats ,history and figures . and sometimes the game of basketball is like Poetry in motion . Think Ken pom and many others help in capping. But sometimes the charts and diagrams are like what Whitman heard that night at the lecture.
good luck this year. think this post probably made no sense my bad
