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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
A Shot Made from Under the Hoop ~ Rule & Statistics

"... A player takes a shot from under the hoop, he throws the ball up and it passes the hoop from below, then falls back down and passes the hoop from above, like in an ordinary shot.

Is this shot legal and its score is calculated normally?

What is the correct rule and, specially, the statistical register if this shot is not legal ? ..."

It is a violation: the ball must enter the basket ONLY from above.

"..... Travel, kick or fist - no player shall travel ( run with ball ), kick it, strike it with the fist, or cause it to enter and pass through the basket from below..."

Photograph: The Star

Penalty:
The ball becomes dead or remains dead when the violation occurs. Ball is awarded to a nearby opponent for a throw-in at the out-of-bounds spot nearest the violation.

eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:
FGA for the "shooter" and 'Team Rebound' for the defensive team.

See in our forum the 'field goals attempts' topics and the exposition "Basketball Field Goals Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.

All the terms in this answer are explained widely at The Global Basketball Encyclopedia and in eBA ONLINE.

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Taking Shots: Tall Tales, Bizarre Battles, and the Incredible Truth About the NBA By: Keith Glass The NBA is in trouble. And as NBA agent Keith Glass describes it–he's part of the problem! If team owners are willing to throw millions of dollars his way for marginal players, why should he be the only one with the self–restraint to say "no?" In his insightful, funny, and often mind–numbingly bizarre tales of life in the NBA, Keith Glass lets it fly from half–court.

He'll tell you how we got to the present state–where an agent who makes millions off the game can't sit through one...

He'll also tell you why our NBA stars couldn't capture Olympic gold; why one of the greatest high school players he ever saw ended up in Attica prison instead of the NBA; why selfishness has attached itself to the league; and why the game he loves is in dire need of help.

With informative chapters such as "How to Feed Your Family on Only $14 Million a Year," "Eighty–one Feet of White Centers," and "From 6'11" to the 7–Eleven," Keith Glass shatters the myth of NBA marketing: that everything about the game is great, that tickets are worth over $100 apiece, and that as long as the fans in the luxury boxes are happy and weighed down with jerseys and merchandise, all is well.

But have no fear! Keith Glass will not preach about the evils of highlight film slam–dunks and gangsta rap tattoos–he'll just have you falling down laughing as he flagrantly fouls the league that was once the home of Michael Jordan, Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, and Larry Bird–not to mention Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and all the greats in between.

Keith Glass has coached basketball at the high school and college levels (he was an assistant coach at UCLA), and has been a longtime agent for NBA players. He lives in Rumson, New Jersey, with his wife, Aylin Guney Glass, who played professional basketball in Turkey. He is the father of five children—Sami, Tyler, Alex, Maggie, and Lucas.

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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Does Basketball Defense Win Championships ?

Is defense more consistent than offense ?

Does defense win championships ?

Has the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System actually tried to confirm that?

The data from the eBA System Archives proves that there's no fairly large benefit resulting from being offensive oriented or defensive oriented.

Effective teams, specially at the European championship level teams, from where our Archives are operated, have a tendency to be effective at both ends.

Photograph: from Streeter Lecka at Raleigh-Durham

You can hear that defense is more consistent than offense is really not a proper alignment.

It is possible that there is some little evidence that defense may be more significant than offense for winning a championship but in general, however, great champs are very effective at both ends of the floor.

When we analyzed the losing contestant team is where we found they were very effective at one end of the floor and deficient at the other.

In those cases, the losing contestant team was inclined to be a defensive oriented team.

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eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' ZigTech Slash ! ' with John Wall

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Friday Press Clippings:
Placing Kobe Bryant's Career in Historical Context

From 20 Second Timeout
By David Friedman
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"... The following examples are not intended to dispute or diminish the greatness of Jordan, Johnson and Bird, three players who--by any reasonable standard--must be ranked among the 10 best basketball players of all-time; the point is that they have gradually become viewed as flawless icons instead of human beings who accomplished a lot but also made mistakes, had bad games and were far from perfect.

Keeping that in mind, here are some things that Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird "would never do"--except for the fact that they actually did ! ..."

"... It is interesting that although most "stat gurus" and many media members insist that Bryant should not even be compared with Jordan many of the players and coaches who competed against both players think that Jordan and Bryant are very similar and some have asserted that Bryant is actually greater than Jordan. ..."

"... It is obvious to any objective observer that Bryant is the closest thing to Jordan since Jordan retired; they have similar body types, for most of their careers they played the same position in the same offensive system for the same coach and they both were the dominant winners in their sport during their respective careers. ... "

"... I have consistently said that I consider Jordan to be greater than Bryant both in terms of accomplishments and overall skill set. Bryant is gaining ground in the first category and is not real far behind in the second department but even after Bryant's "Jordanesque" playoff runs from 2008-10 I would still take Jordan over Bryant in both regards. ..."

"... If I did not understand statistics and/or had some kind of agenda, I would be tempted to say that the above numbers--particularly regarding assists--"prove" that the Lakers are better off when Bryant passes less frequently; of course, such a comment would ignore the perils of making broad conclusions based on a small sample size, it would disregard the very real possibility that Bryant's assist numbers may not be accurate (I have repeatedly documented numerous occasions involving other players when NBA scorekeepers handed out assists that do not meet the rulebook requirements) and--most significantly--it would reflect a simple-minded view of the game by suggesting that the complex interactions of 10 players can be understood by looking at one player's production in one statistical category. ..."

"... Kobe Bryant will be remembered as the best player and most consistent champion of the immediate "post Michael Jordan era"--and I am very proud of the extensive, in depth and objective coverage that I have provided about Bryant. ..."

"... No player has ever singlehandedly won a championship in a team sport but most championship teams have one player who sets the tone with a combination of talent, work ethic, determination, leadership and clutch play. ..."

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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Basic Basketball Turnovers Statistics Breakdown

We have at the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System a basic breakdown of turnovers related to the following two percentages:

1) Opponent turnovers that result in our team steals

2) Opponent turnovers forced that weren't recorded as our team steals

Now, what percentage of all turnovers are steals, and what percentage are non-steal turnovers ?

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From the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System archives:

51.4 % of Total Team Turnovers are finally recorded as a steal for the other team: Forced Turnovers.

Therefore 48.6 % of all turnovers are of the non-steal classification: Unforced Turnovers.

Total Team Turnovers are (on average) more than two times the number of opponent steals.

There is some different versions about how many of these Team TO are registered over a season.

But basically you have 3 classes of TO: steals (Forced by the Opponent) ; non-steals attributed to individuals (Unforced); and 'other' team TO (as shot-clock violations).

Each one of these TO cases and the eBA Statistical Registration are described and analyzed in the exposition "Basketball Turnovers Analysis" at the eBA Clinics.

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Correctable Referee's Error Rule & Statistics

"... Game under FIBA rules: Team A is on team fouls and the marker is up at the control table showing it. Player A1 commits the 5th. A team foul but instead of awarding the free throws to Team B, one of the officials gave possession to Team B who scored a basket.

The referees on the table buzzed and points out the error of the missed free throws. May the officials give the basket as good and award the "forgotten" free-throws, because it is a "correctable official error" ?

What is the correct rule and, specially, the statistical register of this play ? ..."

Photograph: CSD Eagles

In the year 2000 FIBA modified the Correctable Error rule, so that in this situation if a basket was scored, you can't award also the free throws: it would be penalizing the offending team twice.

Till the 1999 FIBA basketball season the official would have been correct in giving the basket as good and award the "forgotten" free-throws ( and actually also at the NCAA as they has not yet adopted this amendment ).

But after the modification, meanwhile the error of the official is still within the correctable error time structure, the new rule (58.3.3) means that the missed free throws should have been ignored and the ball should have been awarded to Team B on the baseline ( with the possibility of running the baseline as after any successful basket )

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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: Scatter Plot

A scatter plot is a useful summary of a set of bi variate data (two variables), usually drawn before working out a linear correlation coefficient or fitting a regression line.

It gives a good visual picture of the relationship between the two variables, and aids the interpretation of the correlation coefficient or regression model.

Each unit contributes one point to the scatter plot, on which points are plotted but not joined. The resulting pattern indicates the type and strength of the relationship between the two variables.

lllustrations

1. The more the points tend to cluster around a straight line, the stronger the linear relationship between the two variables (the higher the correlation).
2. If the line around which the points tends to cluster runs from lower left to upper right, the relationship between the two variables is positive (direct).
3. If the line around which the points tends to cluster runs from upper left to lower right, the relationship between the two variables is negative (inverse).
4. If there exists a random scatter of points, there is no relationship between the two variables (very low or zero correlation).
5. Very low or zero correlation could result from a non-linear relationship between the variables. If the relationship is in fact non-linear (points clustering around a curve, not a straight line), the correlation coefficient will not be a good measure of the strength.

A scatter plot will also show up a non-linear relationship between the two variables and whether or not there exist any outliers in the data.

More information can be added to a two-dimensional scatter plot - for example, we might label points with a code to indicate the level of a third variable.

If we are dealing with many variables in a data set, a way of presenting all possible scatter plots of two variables at a time is in a scatter plot matrix.

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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
About the Efficiency in Different Possession Start Cases

In the eBA System there is a study on the average offensive efficiency in different possession start cases. Is was made by the Prof. Roberto Azar using data from play-by-plays of 1000 games of the Euroleague from 1988.

The research is presented in the eBA Basketball Statistics Clinics, and give us, among a lot of other analysis elements, the order of the starting of the possessions ordered from highest to lowest offensive efficiency:

01 - Steal,
02 - Offensive Rebound after 2p FG missed,
03 - Offensive Rebound after 3p FG missed,
04 - Defensive Rebound after 2p FG missed,
05 - Opponent non-steal turnover,

Photograph: from William C. Greene at Basketball 180

06 - Defensive Rebound after 3p FG missed,
07 - FT made,
08 - 2p FG made,
09 - 3p FG made,
10 - Start of quarter,
11 - Defensive Rebound after FT missed.

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Friday Press Clippings:
Are NBA rebounds consistent because of talent or opportunities ?

From Sabermetric Research
By Phil Birnbaum
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"... When we look at consistency, ... we see that 90% of the variation in a player's per-minute rebounds is explained by a player's per-minute rebounds the previous season. There appear to be no statistics in baseball or football that are as consistent as rebounds in basketball. ..."

"... When the authors say "there are no statistics in baseball as consistent as rebounds" ... well, they didn't include saves. I don't know for sure if saves have a higher r-squared or not, but I'd certainly be willing to bet they do. ..."

"... Well, it's probably true that NBA players have spent more time in games than NFL players, but I'm not sure why that's important. Why does playing fewer games (but still a lot of games -- a regular lot, rather than a huge lot) make you less consistent? ... "

"... In that case, you might see a QB go from 20% to 25% in some measure more often than a basketball player goes from 20% to 25% in a similar measure. But if that were true, wouldn't the QB be improving throughout his entire career, given that he plays only 16 games a season? ..."

"... See? It's just opportunities. Those other explanations, about teammates an inexperience, might be factors too. But they're minor factors at best, and, without evidence, they're just speculation. ..."

"... The "opportunities" for rebounds aren't playing time opportunities, but rebounding opportunities. The idea is that every player has a different chance of being in position to handle the rebound. ..."

"... Another way to say this is that "a good metric must properly take account of differences in opportunities" (which is really your argument).

We can't evaluate a running back based on yards gained if we don't know how many carries he had. We can't evaluate a QB's passing yards without knowing his attempts.

And we can't properly evaluate a rebounder without understanding how many effective rebound opportunities his team gave him (a statistic which isn't recorded). ..."

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TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
John Wooden: Coaching for people, not points

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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
Tall Players and the Winning Percentage Statistics

There is at the eBA Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System a research about the influence of the tall players in the winning percentage and the game statistics evolution of the outside and inside players in this game dominated by giants...

Some data to go on with this question and the discussion: in fact, there is in the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System a research about the influence of the tall players in the winning percentage and the game statistics evolution of the outside and inside players.

And some data about... only three teams won the NBA ring without a 2.13 m player in their opening quintet in the last 25 years:

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... the Detroit Pistons in 2003-04 ( with Rasheed Wallace, 2.11, as the tall man of the opening team ), newly the Pistons in 1988-89 ( with Laimbeer, 2.11, as the tall man ) and the Sixers of 1982-83 ( with Moses Malone, 2.08, as the tall of the opening quintet ). And, speaking about the Euroleague, only one team: the Panathinaikos of 2001-02, with Alvertis, 2.06, as the tall man of the team.

And to close this the first section of the answer, with all that was said we reach to the 'Seven Feet Theory', which is supported by recognized NBA scouters: to win actually a championship you must have a 7 feet ( 2,13 m ) player in the middle of the paint area.

Read also these related posts:
Center as a Full-time Basketball Position
Basketball Starting Centers Merit More Minutes

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
A Traveling Turnover & a 8/10 seconds backcourt violation

"... A1 jumps and shoots, but B1 taps the ball and is still in A1 ones hand. A1 returns with ball that never left his hand. Is this jump ball, traveling, or a block shoot? B1 just barely tap the ball in the shooters hand. And what the stats men rule ? ..."

eBA Basketball Statistical Registration=
As you related this play we have a Traveling Turnover against A1 and a Steal from B1, the player deflecting, or team player, depending upon the situation.

Photograph: zimbio.com

"... The 8 / 10 seconds time limit rule violation is a PERSONAL or TEAM turnover ? FORCED or UNFORCED ?
By the way, all the basketball leagues have this rule ? Any difference ? ..."

eBA Basketball Statistical Registration=
The 8/10 seconds backcourt violation is generally a TEAM TURNOVER, being FORCED or UNFORCED depending upon the opponent's action: if it is as result of an all or half court press defense (FORCED) or a defender's error (UNFORCED).

The NCAA Women's rules are the only ones without backcourt count.

See in our forum the 'blocked shots' & 'backcourt violation' topics and the exposition "Basketball Turnovers Statistical Analysis" at eBA ONLINE.

All the terms in this answer are explained widely at The Global Basketball Encyclopedia and in eBA ONLINE.

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eBA Encyclopedia Statistics Terminology: Bias

Bias is a term which refers to how far the average statistic lies from the parameter it is estimating, that is, the error which arises when estimating a quantity.

Errors from chance will cancel each other out in the long run, those from bias will not.

The following illustrates bias and precision, where the target value is the bulls eye:

	Precise	Imprecise
Biased
Unbiased

Example
The police decide to estimate the average speed of drivers using the fast lane of the motorway and consider how it can be done. One method suggested is to tail cars using police patrol cars and record their speeds as being the same as that of the police car.

This is likely to produce a biased result as any driver exceeding the speed limit will slow down on seeing a police car behind them. The police then decide to use an unmarked car for their investigation using a speed gun operated by a constable.

This is an unbiased method of measuring speed, but is imprecise compared to using a calibrated speedometer to take the measurement.

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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
About the Game Pace and the Turnovers

According to a research of the eBA Basketball Statistics System about the influence of the 'game pace' on the 'turnover ratios' of individual players:

...there is a connected increase in the number of TO due to pace: as pace increases, players/teams get more TO/Min and TO/G.

Therefore we may suppose the sooner your team shoots the ball, the less probably you have a chance for a TO. Or that time of possession is what's mutually related to TO.

But, while the presumption is that a faster pace means more errors and more turnovers, if you shoot the ball before you pass it, you turn the ball over less.

So, generally, turnover rates do not become larger with quicker pace.
In this case, you wouldn't expect players' turnover rates to vary too much.

Photograph: The Dream Shake

Many other factors could have an effect upon TO rates/possession used or touch year to year:

 • different players in the same organization

 • modifications to an organization that does not suit a particular player's style

 • injuries (players depending on first step with knee/ankle injuries, and injured wrist, etc.) ...

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eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' We Have Already Witnessed ! ' with Michael Jordan

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Friday Press Clippings:
Statistical Tests for the Hot-Hand in Basketball in a Controlled Setting

From University of Wisconsin
By Robert L. Wardrop
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"... When I watch basketball on television, it is a common occurrence to have an announcer state that some player has the hot-hand. This raises the question: Are Bernoulli trials an adequate model for the
outcomes of successive shots in basketball? ..."

"... In this paper I consider a statistical analysis of basketball shooting in a controlled (practice) setting, with special interest in the hot-hand. ..."

"... Throughout the two papers the researchers refer to the alternative as being “the hot-hand.” For the two test statistics considered, the runs test and the test of fit, the hot-hand alternative, whether it means autocorrelation or nonstationarity, is naturally a one-sided alternative and should therefore, in my opinion, have a one-sided test. ... "

"... Each player attempted 100 shots from a location at which he or she was believed to be about a 50 percent shooter. Before each shot a player would bet high or low and was advised to bet high if and only if he or she felt confident about the pending attempt. A success on a high bet would earn the shooter five cents, while a miss would cost four cents; for a low bet the values were two and one cents, respectively. The data analysis strategy and conclusions are presented in the following passage, ..."

"... In summary, there are several reasons to believe that Katie’s shooting is more complex than Bernoulli trials. The frequency and size of the hot-hand may or may not match the expectations of many persons, but it is too simplistic, I believe, to assume that Bernoulli trials are always appropriate.

The reader is encouraged to collect data and use the ideas of this paper to analyze them. ..."

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Basketball Statistician's Digest:
May 2010 eBA sketball Statistics Case Study Conclusion

Different Situations in a Basketball FT... Case Study

"... A1 shoots a free throw and fails to hit the rim.


 • case a) A1’s failure to hit the rim is caused by B5, who jumps into the lane and bats A1’s throw away, or
 • case b) A1’s shot misses without any responsibility on the part of Team B, or
 • case c) A1’s shot misses and A1 steps into the lane too early, or
 • case d) A1’s shot misses and A3 steps into the lane too early, or
 • case e) A1’s shot misses but B5 steps into the lane too early.

What is the statistical registration according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System in each one of the given situations, including the type of the registration ( close, long, disputed or undisputed rebound, etc...) ... ?"

Conclusion:
eBA System Statistics Fundamentals:
A player should not be charged for a shot from the field influenced by the illegal actions of himself or herself, or any teammates or opponents unless the shot results in a FGM.

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eBA Basketball Statistical Registration:

• In (a) do not charge A1 with a FTA, B5 will be charged with a Class B technical and Team A will receive two free throws. Charge B5 with an Unforced Turnover in the TF category and Team A with an Unforced Steal;

• in (b) the violation will be the only one penalized. Therefore, charge A1 with a FTA and credit Team B with a dead-ball rebound;

• in (c) do not charge A1 with a FTA, charge A1 with an Unforced Turnover unless Team A retains the ball. The violation for stepping into the lane caused the ball to become dead before the shot missed the rim;

• in (d) do not charge A1 with a FTA, charge A1 with an Unforced Turnover unless Team A retains the ball. The violation for stepping into the lane caused the ball to become dead before the shot missed the rim;

• in (e) this will be ruled a double violation and the possession will be determined by the alternating-possession rule. Charge A1 with an Unforced Turnover unless Team A retains the ball.

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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
When a Shooting Foul is called ? - Statistics Registration

The concept that the player must make a throwing motion in order for it to be a shooting foul seems to convey no meaning. The player must intend to do so, but if contact prevents the completion of the shot, it can still be a shooting foul.

An example about this concept: A1 is a few feet away from the basket, facing the side of the backboard. When A1 starts what appears to be a try for a goal, he is in front of the backboard and well positioned to score. B1 illegally bumps A1 while A1 is airborne, moving A1 to a position where he is now behind the backboard. A1 (still airborne) now realises that a shot is impossible from behind the backboard, so he passes the ball to A2, who is standing near the free throw line.

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The referee must call a foul on B1 and award two shots to A1, as he was in the act of shooting when the contact happened, on the contrary it would penalise the shooter because he was smart enough to try and continue playing. The fact that he eventually passed the ball is really of no consequence.

Every time the official judges that the player is making a continuous attempt for goal, they get shots, no matter how early in the drive the contact occurs, no matter in the drive is completed or no.

The eBA statistics registration is simple: a made foul and a received foul and the result of the free throws, simply. If there was a pass before the action, it would be considered an assist with foul. See in the Stats Forums the posts about basketball assists.

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NBA Games Highlights from this Week 34 ~ Playoffs !

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Is it Possible to Register a Double Foul ?

"... A player goes to the basket with the ball, two defenders go to stop him and make contact:

1) Is it possible to call a personal foul on both defenders if they make contact with the offensive player ?

2) What is, in this case, the stats rule ? If the answer to 1) is positive, both defenders receive a "Foul Made" ?

3) If so, the total of teams fouls made will not be real....

Which is the rule of this situation and, specially the statistician rule according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System ? ..."

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This case is no so frequent, but possible. The call is about the first foul ignoring the subsequent. Only if the second contact is unsportsmanlike it is called.

No case that the stats-men rules both players a foul given: only to the first foul made in accordance with the referee's call.

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Same Knight, Different Channel By: Jack Isenhour Basketball legend Bob Knight is fond of saying that he has never gotten over West Point. In Same Knight, Different Channel, Jack Isenhour takes him at his word. A player on Knight’s first West Point team, Isenhour shows how the controversial coach has changed little from his early days at the academy, temper tantrums and all. Knight made up his mind there to "win-gotta win" and follows that philosophy to this day. Knight’s sentiment was in step with the core value of "there is no substitute for victory" at West Point, where soldiers were being trained to fight and win the next war.

So it came as little surprise following Knight’s 18-8 record in his inaugural 1965-66 season-a season in which the twenty-five-year-old hot-headed coach berated officials, totaled chairs, and got into his first shouting match with an athletic director-that West Point chose to keep the young Coach Bob Knight on.
What’s a tantrum or two in the name of winning? With that, "Bobby T" was born. Knight’s bad-boy persona-the hair-trigger temper, the acting out, and the defiance-was codified as at least tolerable, if not acceptable, behavior.

Relying on firsthand experiences and interviews with teammates, administrators, and Knight himself, Isenhour traces the pattern of misbehavior established during Knight’s inaugural year at West Point, during his last days at Indiana, and to his reemergence at Texas Tech.

The result is the most even-handed portrait of Knight to date. In a narrative both lively and irreverent, Same Knight, Different Channel demonstrates who Knight is today and shows how he was shaped by his experiences at West Point, ending with a thought-provoking discussion of just what it takes to play, coach, and win in the high-pressure world of college basketball...."

Jack Isenhour an award-winning television journalist, was a seldom-used guard on Bob Knight's first Army basketball (1965-66). His premise is that the Knight we know today--controversial, temperamental, successful--was forged by his tenure at West Point when he became the Cadets' head coach at the ridiculously young age of 25. The raw material was there: a fierce competitor in high school and college, Knight was the kid skidding around the court diving after loose balls.

When Army coach Tates Locke resigned to take another position, he recommended that his young assistant succeed him. Knight's inherent competitiveness flourished at West Point during the Vietnam era.
He developed a style--stifling defense, patient offense--that maximized the skills of players who were not big and not heavily recruited.

Filled with great anecdotes from former players and Isenhour's self-deprecating replays of his time--yesterday and today--with Knight, this is a compelling look at the early career of a man who will soon become the winningest college coach in history.

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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Center as a Full-time Basketball Position

Let us now have a closer look to the first two changes proposed here by Dennis Hans. He thinks that we’ll not only reduce the threat of foul trouble, we’ll remake center into a full-time basketball position, where quickness, creativity and skill, rather than brute strength or a gift for flopping, are paramount.

"... 1) Make non-brutal illegal screens a loss-of-possession violation, like traveling. Only dirty picks – sticking out an elbow, forearm or bony knee – will be a foul.

Probably 90 percent of illegal screens fall into the non-dirty category.

2) Quit treating intentional fouls as if they were non-intentional. Current penalties for the latter are fine; for the former, they are so weak that they function as rewards.

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Most intentional fouls – grabs by beaten or outmanned defenders to abort fast breaks or halfcourt drives; hugs and muggings to prevent layups and dunks – are based on the premise that the opposing team is less likely to score two points if they have to restart their offense by inbounding the ball or step to the line for a pair of free throws than if the fast break, drive or power move had continued. ...

If we make the penalty an actual penalty – two points for the fouled player, and his team retains possession of the ball – refs will never have to invoke the rule because no one would be so stupid as to intentionally foul.

We’ll have fewer stoppages of play, more fast breaks, less roughhousing, and fewer fouls, particularly by centers. ..."

And how we adapt these proposals to the basketball statistics registration?

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Basketball Coaches Digest:
GOODBYE, MAESTRO ! Legendary John Wooden dies at 99

John Wooden, college basketball's gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, has died. He was 99.

The university said Wooden died Friday night of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he had been since May 26.

Wooden remained beloved by many of his former players, several of whom visited him in recent days to say their goodbyes.

Among them was Bill Walton, whose voice caught as he spoke of the man he hailed as a teacher first and a coach second.

"He's the greatest," Walton said the night before Wooden's death. "We love him."

Jamaal Wilkes said he recognized what he called "that little glint" in Wooden's pale blue eyes.

During his second visit Wednesday night, Wilkes asked Wooden if he recognized him.

"His glasses fogged up, and he had to clean his glasses," Wilkes said. "He looked at me and said, 'I remember you, now go sit down.'"

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Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre and current UCLA coach Ben Howland were among Wooden's final visitors.

"I just enjoyed him and the twinkle in his eye," Howland said, noting Wooden told a few jokes from his hospital bed. "I'm just the steward of this program. It's always going to be his program."

Jim Harrick is the only coach in the post-Wooden era at UCLA to win a national championship. When the Bruins reached the 1995 Final Four in Seattle, Harrick repeatedly urged Wooden to attend. He had stopped going after his wife died 10 years earlier.
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"You don't know how stubborn he was," Harrick said by phone from Orange County, Calif. "Finally, he did come, and it was a tremendous thrill."

With his signature rolled-up game program in hand, Wooden led the Bruins to 10 NCAA championships, including an unmatched streak of seven in a row from 1967 to 1973.

Over 27 years, he won 620 games, including 88 straight during one historic stretch, and coached many of the game's greatest players such as Walton and Lew Alcindor - later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

"It's kind of hard to talk about Coach Wooden simply, because he was a complex man. But he taught in a very simple way. He just used sports as a means to teach us how to apply ourselves to any situation," Abdul-Jabbar said in a statement released through UCLA.

"He set quite an example. He was more like a parent than a coach. He really was a very selfless and giving human being, but he was a disciplinarian. We learned all about those aspects of life that most kids want to skip over. He wouldn't let us do that."

Wooden is the only person to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

The eBA Stats Group Pay Tribute to John Wooden ! GOODBYE, MAESTRO !... and Thanks for All You Have Done !

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eBA 2010 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' Team Elite ! '

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Friday Press Clippings:
Defining the Value of a Superstar

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"... How exactly should a player’s value be defined? One way to answer this question is to look at the player’s impact on his own team.

At 82Games.com, Roland Beech compiles several statistics that, taken together, give an indication of which players are most important to the performance of their teams.

"On court" and "off court," as the names suggest, reflect a team’s net points per 100 possessions when a given player is on the court and off the court respectively. ... "

"... A player’s on court and off court numbers are of course affected by the performances of his teammates so it is difficult to project whether a player would do better or worse on a different team.

A player whose numbers are boosted by being surrounded by talented players may not be able to be that productive on a weaker team; conversely, a superstar who is surrounded by a weak supporting cast may have his numbers dragged down by his teammates’ miscues. ..."

"... These statistics alone do not definitively answer the question of who was the NBA’s Most Valuable Player but they lend some context to the discussion. ..."

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Basketball Statistics Analysis Referred Concepts:
The PPR - Assist/Turnover Rating

The PPR - Assist/Turnover Rating is an assist to turnover ratio which is much better than the simple assists divided by turnovers ratio which is often used by the media.

Turnovers were not kept as an official stat by the NBA prior to the 1977-78 season so PPR is only displayed or accurate after this that season.

This formula was used by John Hollinger in his book Pro Basketball Forecast: 2005-06 (Pro Basketball Prospectus).

PPR - Assist / Turnover Rating = (((ASTS*.66)-TO)*100) / Minutes

We modify, apply and discuss this method in the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis Clinics: from the 2nd. Exposition "Basketball Statistical Formulas Revision".

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Basketball Registering Stats Referred Questions:
Loose Ball and pushed by own teammate

"... Loose ball and Team B player gets the ball and turns very quickly to shoot at the basket, but when he goes up for the shot he is pushed by another Team B player in the loose ball struggle yet.

The official blew the whistle and then realized that it was his own teammate that had contact with him.

Which is the rule of this situation and, specially the statistician rule according to the eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System ? ..."

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In an inadvertent whistle situation like this, the official must determine where the ball was at the time of the whistle:

1) the ball is still in the shooter's hands: ball becomes dead immediately, no goal can be scored, and team B gets the ball back. No statistical register, out of the play-by-play story.

2) the ball was in the air: the goal counts if it goes, and the games goes with a jump ball or the Alternating Possession arrow, its depends by the league.

3) if the ball had been secured on a rebound already: that team receives the ball for a throw-in.

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June Cover ~ Basketball Beautiful Faces:
...from the Kansas State College Group of Dancers !

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Our Basketball Beautiful Faces of June 2010 Cover

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