These guys should take the most shots and should have a high shooting percentage. They should also be able on the most explosive player on the opposing team. Necessary Skills: Usually the most talented player on the team in terms of skill sets. Should be a bigger body, able to shoot from all over, and have a great inside presence. Honestly, LeBron James is the player everyone wishes their small forward is.
Secondary Skills: Could be large enough to play power forward or be quick enough to run as a guard a la LeBron. This is the ultimate pacifier. The position is not as important as some of the others, but have a great scorer here causes defenses to concentrate on this player also causing mismatches for your guards. Necessary Skills: Should be a great defender. Does not need to be a tremendous scorer, but should have a good inside game. Should be able to rebound well. Secondary skills: Shooting range is nice to have for a forward, but not necessary.
Dirk Nowitzki is the best shooting PF. Passing usually is not a strength as plays do not go through PF's as often. This is your blue collar player.
He makes the tough rebounds and plays inside. Players like KG and Nowitzki play sort of in a free style way. Everyone wants a tough player like KG as their power forward. Generally, you need players that fit YOUR scheme.
This does not mean have a bunch of all stars all over the place. This rarely works. See my number one. A fairly important aspect of the NBA. Experienced basketball players generally perform better in clutch situations.
Shaq was a great clutch player. Kobe is. Ray Allen is probably the most clutch player I have ever seen. This comes with experience. Now, some of your depth can be young, but experience among starters is necessary. To me, the most important aspect of the game. Teams with great chemistry win championships. If you are up for that challenge, check out www. Select your sport and get into camp! If you need more assistance, just give us a call at we would be happy to help!
Call us! Share This. Filter Coach's Corner by Sport Choose a sport View all basketball tips. Four years later, he made the big leagues. No one would ever confuse Muthu for Billy Beane. That was the start of me realizing I was not made to play basketball. At Stanford, he danced Raas and Bhangra, traditional Indian styles, and biked to class.
When he did find time for basketball, about once a week, Muthu played point guard. There was no other choice for a 5-foot-9 guy with a slight build. But he also felt out of position, since ball-handling was not his strength. Even in pickup games, he thought, there was an unrecognized nuance to basketball positions. Muthu began his deep dive into NBA positions one Friday last summer, during his internship with Ayasdi, by picking seven rudimentary statistics on Yahoo!
Sports for every NBA player: points, rebounds, assists, steals, turnovers, fouls, and blocks. Then he adjusted them for playing time. The nodes were the players, the groups were the newfound positions, and the lines linked statistically similar players. This was his groundbreaking similarity network of NBA players.
It looked like a postcard from a molecular biology convention. I can tell you which players in the NBA play which position. And I can tell you who epitomizes the position best. The first thing to know about the thirteen NBA positions—Muthu labeled them offensive ball-handler, defensive ball-handler, combo ball-handler, shooting ball-handler, role-playing ball-handler, 3-point rebounder, scoring rebounder, paint protector, scoring paint protector, role player, NBA first team, NBA second team, and one-of-a-kind—is that the idea of thirteen NBA positions is a misnomer.
Tony Parker is an offensive ball-handler, which separates him from John Wall, considered a combo ball-handler, not based on anything stylistic but solely because of their statistics.
Kevin Love and Blake Griffin are actually scoring paint protectors. Muthu noticed that intrinsic talent alone was not the reason Carmelo Anthony, Dirk Nowitzki, and Chris Bosh clustered together.
It was their statistical profiles that linked them as "scoring rebounders," one of the most valuable player types in all of basketball. And yet Muthu insisted that the comparisons for Ebanks, another scoring rebounder based on his metrics, were not just not dismal. They actually made him one of the most promising prospects in the game. The reaction to this curious insight was similar to the way hardened baseball scouts condescended to early sabermetricians.
Then something astonishing happened. A few weeks later, when Kobe Bryant missed time with an injury and Metta World Peace was out because of a suspension, they were replaced in the starting lineup by none other than Devin Ebanks. Ebanks started every regular-season and postseason game when Bryant or World Peace sat in street clothes, and he reached double figures on four occasions. For six weeks, at least, Ebanks proved him right.
Muthu had been unsure of his original findings, so he had explored the data on his own for about a week.
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