How to make a Perfect Scouting Report in Basketball
Scouting report in basketball is a very important thing if you are trying to run a serious basketball organization. Depending on the information gathered by your scouts, you are going to know the strengths and the weaknesses of the opponents, and you are going to be prepared to exploit those flaws. Professional teams are spending millions of dollars a year in order to have a perfect scouting report for each game. As much as it is overwhelming to hear how some of the teams like to invest in a scouting report, I think that everything you need is a piece of paper and goodwill to be concentrated on the game in terms of details.
Scouting report in basketball should contain the next set of information:
General Information
Team Offense Info
Team Defense Info
Individual Player Scouting Report
Team Offense Patterns
Team Defense Patterns
Transition Offense
1.
General Information
Every scouting report in basketball should start with the General Information. As you can see, this page should have the name of teams that are playing a game and the teams rankings on the leader. I also like to put the current record just because it can tell the urgency for the teams. Then, there must be information about the place, date and time of the game, the league that the teams are playing and the name of the scout. Underneath should be the score by the quarters, good information on how the teams were playing throughout the game. Many coaches neglect this information, but, it is very important to know what is the dynamics of the opposing team. Some teams play better early, some teams play better late. If you have the information that the opponent is playing its best basketball in the third quarter, then you are going to try and play aggressive defense at the start of the second half.
2. Team Offense Info
Scouting report in basketball is highly dependable on analyzing the other team offense. This peace of information is going to make our defensive preparations better and easier.
1. Team offense is run trough patterns or is it more of a free-minded game where players can play what comes in their mind. If there are patterns, you will need to draw them and point out the targeted players or situations. If its a game without patterns, then you will need to write what is the go-to action, is it 1 on 1 with making the defense move or is it a ball on the low post.
2. This question is important to know because it is going to tell you if you are playing against a team that likes to control the tempo and play a bit slower or you are up against run and gun team.
3. If there is continuity on offense then you are going to have to be prepared and focused on every defense because they are going to play pattern after pattern and they are going to be patient with the finishing.
4. I mean, few teams do not like to play pick and roll. Usually, teams without big players play it less than the others.
5. This is very important to know because if a team likes to set a ton of good off-ball weak side screens, your players will have to be on alert all the time.
6. The defense is a bit different if the team likes to shoot threes and if they like to play inside the paint. The difference is in half a step toward the 3 point line or toward the free-throw line.
7. Every team has an offensive identity. Some attack with the drives, some like to move the ball with the passing. We all know that whatever is the case we need to be prepared and adapt to a certain style of basketball.
8. If the guards are strong on the ball, you do not want and try to attack them on the dribbling. What you want to do is to try and contain the ball and put a body between the ball and the rim. If the guards are bad ball handlers, then you want to press the ball.
9. Isolation is only valid in the NBA because of the 3 seconds rule. I personally do not believe in ISO plays because you can always send a help defender to a certain location.
10. Go to Man is not necessarily the best player on the team and you have to identify the difference. Go to players can be passive for long stretches of the games but in key moments they are the ones to take the shots. Know those players and make assignments. There is no other way.
11. You need to know who is the best shooter on the opposing team because you do not want to help off of this player nor you want to let him alone not even for a second. If there is an off-ball screen for the best shooter, you want to switch everything. It is better to fight another player inside than to let a good shooter shoot.
12. You are winning the game if the worst shooter is shooting the most. Yes, the opponents do not want this but if you double the ball off of the worst shooter, and the help defender is covering the good shooter, this player will have to make a decision every time. Those shots are going to be good looks, but eventually, he is going to miss them.
13. We do not want our bad defenders on the opponent's quickest players. We will rather match speed with speed.
14. We do not want to play aggressive defense on the player that has good handles, because that way he is going to exploit his best skills in order to beat the defense. What we really want to do with those players is to contain the ball and to try and be between them and the rim.
15. We want to press players without handles. These situations are the best for making some steals.
16. If the game comes to the last shot, we want to know who of the opposing players is likely to make a mistake under pressure. What we want to do is to cover other players, or even double them, just to put the ball into those player's hands.
17. We have to know if we are dealing with the team that likes to go for the ball every time, or we are playing against the team that likes organized defense. The difference is in one player because aggressive teams use 2 players on the offensive board and passive players send just one. Either way, we want to identify the best rebounder and we want to box out him every time.
18. And in the end, we want to know the DNK of the offense that we are dealing with. Is the anchor of their offense a low or a high post or their world spins round pick and roll, the information in our basketball scouting report is going to make our defensive preparation easier.
3. Team Defense Info
Defensive information in our basketball scouting report is crucial because it is going to reveal our opponents weaknesses. This way we are going to know how to attack them and how to be as efficient as we can be.
1. First thing we want to know is what is the defensive identity of the opposing team. We want to be prepared for any defense that they are going to try and play.
2. On ball defense is telling us how aggressive they are on the ball. If they like to pressure the ball then we are going to pass the ball more.
3. Off ball defense is telling us how good of a help defenders they are. If they are bad then we are going to drive the lane more and use back door cuts.
4. If the team is bad at boxing out then we are going to send more guys to crash the boards. More offensive rebounds more second chance opportunities for us.
5. Pick and roll defense is crucial for almost any team because pick and roll action is one of the most used offensive plays in the game on any level. I mean, if the opponents are defending pick and roll with a drop, being low, we are going to give the ball to a good mid-range shooter who is going to exploit the space given after the screen.
6. We want to attack the slowest player on the perimeter.
7. We want to attack the slowest inside player on the pick and roll as a screener defender.
8. Teams that are not high on the passing lanes are a bit lower in depth and allow more open shots form deep.
9. We want to know who is the most aggressive player on the team so the player who is he guarding can play off the ball.
10. We do not attack the best defender.
11. We box out the best rebounder.
12. We want to know how good is the coverage on the cuts so we can get easy points by simple back door movement on offense.
4. Individual Player Scouting Report
One of the crucial parts of any scouting report in basketball is an individual scouting report. As you can see, if you are scanning a certain player, the first thing that you want to have is his full name, jersey number for easier identification, position, metrics and dominant hand.
Then come the stats. For shooting, what a good report contains is the map of shots. With the X you can mark missed shots, and with the O made ones. This map is going to tell you not just the percentage but it is going to give you insight from where the player is shooting comfortably and which are his struggling points.
After that, you want to take care of assists, rebounds, turnovers, and blocked shots.
And after that, it's the story about the player. Is he a shooter or a penetrator, is he a pass-first or a shoot-first player. Read one by one and rate his abilities on the court, and when you are done, you will have the whole picture and you will know what needs to be done to defend him.
5. Team Offense Patterns
Scouting report in basketball must contain offensive patterns that you were able to see and to write. This way, when you hear a call from a player or a coach...lets say Horns, you are going to be aware what kind of horns are they playing and who is the target.
While I was watching this game, I was able to notify the way of how are they executing horns offense. The screeners are always the best shooter and the center, and in the corners are other two players with the exception that the best athlete is always on the same side with the center. The action starts with the pint guard dribbling the ball toward the shooter where the shooter is setting the screen for the PG. Then, the shooter is running toward the other player in the Horns, who is a Center, and he is going over him while he now receives a screen. The shooter goes wide and the center dives toward the rim. If the screen is good, there is a lob pass toward the shooter for and open three, or if the Center is open he receives the ball. Ideally, after he receives the ball, there is a cut from the weak side corner for a lob pass and a dunk.
In these patterns, you can draw any offensive set play. Here you can put some inbound plays or quick hitters or last-second plays, but you have to identify them properly in the Action Name line.
6. Team Defense Patterns
A good scouting report in basketball must contain some of the info about some specific stuff about the opponent's defensive sets. Whatever you see, you can draw here, but make sure that you write every thought you had because there is so much information that is easily forgotten.
Here we had an easy pick and roll action that was close to the sideline, and the screen was in a way that the ball handler has penetrated the baseline. Help defender from the strong side stayed close to his man while the real help was sent from the weak side corner.
7. Transition Offense
The first thing we want to know is that if we are playing against a fast pace or a slow-paced team. Then, we want to know what do they do if they run. Different teams like to finish the transition differently. Some like to throw touch down passes, some like to wait for the trailer. And In the end, we want to know who are the inbounders, who like to receive the ball and what is the position of the players who receive the first pass. Teams who like to run like to do it every time, not just after the basket. Secondary transition options are really important to identify because this is the moment where your defense will be the least organized and you do not want to let some easy buckets.
Scouting report in basketball is easy to make if you go and use this E-Book that we at Hoopsking made just for you. Keep in mind that the scouting is all about the details and writing down everything you saw. Using this kind of information is going to help you prepare your team in the best way possible in order to win, and it is going to teach your players how to look at the basketball.
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Nov 23, 2019 Viktor Sadikovic
How to Scout College Hoops From Your Couch
The college basketball season starts Friday, which means NBA teams will send their scouts across the country, beginning their nonstop roller coaster of travel, hotel food, and lots and lots of basketball. You need an “all-consuming passion” in order to make scouting your career. “Scouting the draft isn’t as much of an exact science as we try to make it out to be,” a longtime scout tells me.
Every year teams draft lottery busts or hit the jackpot on second-round sleepers. This isn’t a recent phenomenon — George Gervin went 40th in 1974. No matter how many resources franchises invest in the draft, it still feels random. “I’d call it more of an educated guess,” DraftExpress scout Joshua Riddell says. “All an NBA team can do is get all the information they can … Projecting even three years into the future is impossible, much less for an entire career.”
Scouting for the NBA is really hard. People will knock this team or that team for “getting it wrong,” and everyone is an expert in hindsight. The truth is there are so many variables, only some of which an NBA front office can control. No amount of film study or background checks could have predicted that Ben Simmons would step on Shawn Long’s (Shawn Long!) foot during Sixers training camp. Maybe you’d hit on as many draft picks as the replacement-level general manager. Maybe you’d do even better. But the fervor around the draft isn’t really about the picking, it’s about the discovery. And you can discover a lot right from your own home. There’s nothing like being among the first people to recognize a future talent. That’s the driving force behind my love for scouting the draft, and you can experience that, too.
To find out how the pros do it, I spoke with two scouts and one executive who work in the NBA and wish to remain anonymous, so we’ll call them Scout X, Scout Y, and Scout Z; and I interviewed DraftExpress scouts Mike Schmitz and Joshua Riddell on the record. Schmitz is the mastermind behind DX’s scouting videos, and Riddell publishes his own draft newsletter.
Here’s how to train your eye to become a couch scout:
Focus on More Than the Ball
When watching a game, it’s natural to ball-watch. This is a bad habit for defenders, and it’s a bad habit for you. Yes, the ball is the source of action. But when scouting a specific player, you should keep your eyes on him often, even when he doesn’t have the rock. Schmitz calls this “spot shadowing.” When he spot shadows, he’s tracking how a player moves the ball within the flow of the offense and how he positions himself on defense.
How’d the shooter get so open? Julius Randle goes straight into the down screen like a moth fatally attracted to light. He should’ve gone over it to defend the 3. Defensive awareness was a severe flaw for Randle when he entered the 2014 draft (and it’s something he’s improving upon slowly as a Laker). By focusing on an individual player, you’ll notice the pros or cons that don’t end up in the stat sheet.
Randle was one of the college game’s most dominant rebounders, and it was obvious that his skill would translate because of how he gobbled boards. Here, Randle simply manhandles the player he’s boxing out to get into position for the rebound and then snatches it with one hand before drawing the foul.
Avoid Locking Yourself Into an Evaluation
In 2013, SB Nation’s Paul Flannery published a profile of Suns general manager Ryan McDonough, then a member of the Celtics front office. Flannery wrote of McDonough’s scouting method: “His ideal scenario is to watch a prospect play his best, worst and average games. ” McDonough wanted to get an idea of a player’s ceiling and what he offers in a basement performance. This is a handy format for couch scouts since it minimizes the necessary time commitment. “You won’t be able to watch every game,” Riddell says. “But make sure you evaluate a player’s whole season and put the games you saw in context of his entire-season production.”
This logic should extend to what you watch and read, too. I hope you come to The Ringer to read everything we write about the draft, but you should also be hungry for information from other sources to avoid groupthink. Watch Schmitz’s DX videos and follow more draft evaluators on Twitter than just the industry’s big names. “The best thing that happened to my career is working with Danny [Ainge] because he’s so open,” McDonough told Flannery. “He’ll go to interns and say, ‘So what do you think?’” When a basketball lifer asks a subordinate for a second opinion, you should be seeking more guidance, too.
Be Careful of Biases
“We have to fight biases, which come in a lot of ways,” says Scout Y, listing three of the prevalent ones: The Big School, The All-American, and The March Madness Run. “Just because a kid went to Kentucky and was an All-American, it doesn’t mean he will be a great player,” he says.
Scouts Y and Z gave the same example of a prospect boosted by the March Madness Run: Nik Stauskas. “If it weren’t for the [Elite Eight] run, I doubt Stauskas would’ve went top 10,” says Scout Z. Stauskas, drafted eighth by the Kings in 2014, is averaging 6.4 points per game with a 32.4 3-point percentage in his career.
Keep Watching the NBA
Just because you’ll be couch-scouting college basketball doesn’t mean you should brush the NBA aside. It’s important to retain a grasp on how the league is trending. “The trends really change how you look at different players,” Schmitz says. “It’s about understanding the NBA and what works in the NBA. ”
You are already aware of the NBA’s biggest trends. Any player who can shoot 3s well is valued, regardless of his position. Positional versatility is a premium skill on both ends, especially on defense against teams frequently switching on- and off-ball screens. Forwards once considered “tweeners” without true positions are now tailor-made for a league that values forwards who can play both the 3 and 4. More teams are also playing multiple ball handlers instead of using a single traditional, pass-first point guard.
Above all else, keep in mind how much more athletic the pro game is. “You need to recalibrate for the NBA level, where guys are bigger and longer,” says Schmitz. “The transition from college to the NBA is huge. I think you really have to train your eye for that.”
Analyze a Player’s Body Type
Brandon Ingram looked so skinny on draft night that #NBATwitter dubbed him Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas. If a player is built like a toothpick, he’s in trouble unless he has Ingram’s elite talent. “People will say a player can get stronger, but that’s not necessarily the truth if they don’t have the frame to hang meat on,” Scout Y says. “If they have a thin waist, thin legs, narrow shoulders, they’re not going to be able to put on the strength to handle the rigors of the season.”
Almost every draft prospect needs to “get stronger,” because so few enter the league with a fully developed body. Riddell says he studies a player’s size and athleticism before getting to his skill set in order to find out whether a player can compete physically.
For instance, Suns rookie Tyler Ulis measured in at 5-foot-9 and 149 pounds at the NBA draft combine, and Scout Z tells me he doesn’t think Ulis’s body can handle much more weight. “It’s not his height that holds him back as much as his frame,” he says. Small players have succeeded in the NBA, but very few have found success at a playing weight in the 150-to-160-pound range. Isaiah Thomas is the same height as Ulis, but he’s a thick, muscular 185 pounds. Cavaliers rookie Kay Felder is even shorter, but weighs close to 180 pounds. Ulis could have success in the league, but his body is a natural limitation that must be accounted for.
How Does the Player Interact With Teammates?
NBA organizations spend countless hours researching everything there is to know about prospects, on and off the court. You can’t get that off-court information from your couch, but you can watch how players react to certain situations. “If a point guard turns the ball over, does he jog back and not give full effort on defense, or does he immediately get up in the opponent’s grill?” Schmitz asks. Those details may seem incidental, but it can shed light on how a player might deal with adversity.
“The Suns did that study of high fives … It sounds ridiculous but there’s a lot of validity to that,” Schmitz says. “For someone scouting from the couch [who] doesn’t have intel from coaches, you can take away some things in a situation like that. ”
Be Aware of Blind Spots
Sometimes a player is put in a role that doesn’t suit his strengths. “Just because a guy doesn’t shoot it from the perimeter doesn’t mean he can’t shoot it,” says Scout X. North Carolina big man Brice Johnson, selected 25th by the Clippers, is a great example of this phenomenon. “He shot zero 3s in a four-year career, but he can shoot,” notes Scout X. Johnson’s role on the Tar Heels was to rebound, set screens, roll to the rim, and throw down lobs with the force of a Gronk spike. He did all that at a high level, so you can’t fault Roy Williams for not using him as a floor spacer.
But the signs were there. Johnson displayed soft touch inside and on the post, and hit 78.3 percent of his free throws. It wasn’t surprising he was immediately draining deep 2s and attempting 3s in the summer league.
Does the Player Have an Elite Skill?
Stars get all the press, but the majority of the NBA is made up of players who fill specialized roles. “There will be times [with a prospect] where we say he’s not an NBA player, but he has one elite skill,” Scout Y says, citing Danny Green as an example. Green checked the boxes of a 3-and-D role player straight out of North Carolina, but he wasn’t competent in many other parts of his game, like passing and ballhandling. “Being passable in a lot of different areas in addition to [being elite in one] is really important,” Schmitz says. Green enhanced his strengths after the draft and eventually landed in a perfect situation with the Spurs, a team that routinely accentuates the best qualities of its players. A player with just one or two premium skills can carve out a successful career if he falls to the right team.
Avoid Cliché Superstar Comparisons
Top prospects are always labeled as “the next” someone; Ben Simmons is the next LeBron James and Buddy Hield is the next Stephen Curry. Setting such high expectations not only leads to disappointment; it’s also misleading. “Each player is unique and is never going to be exactly the same as someone that comes before them,” Riddell says. “We may never see someone like Draymond Green again, but teams are going to try to find the next big man who can create and defend. So a better comparison is saying that the prospect will try to fill a similar role to Green, not that they will have the same skills or impact.”
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The New Draymonds
Think about it this way: If I tell you I’m going to see the film Arrival this week, and you ask me what it’s about, I might tell you it’s like Interstellar. That’s because it’s a sci-fi movie that inspires a sense of wonder. But the script, the characters, and the soundtrack won’t be the same. There’s a chance Arrival isn’t as entertaining as Interstellar. So when you couch-scout, think about the role a player could fill, not the specific player he’ll be like. As Scout Z told me: “Our front office laughs at some of the comps we hear on TV.”
Focus Instead on a Player’s Situation
A player’s role or situation can mean everything for his success. “Nigel Hayes is a good example of this,” Riddell says. “He could become a stretch 4 if he can catch and shoot, but he’ll probably never be someone who can have the offense run through him, like Wisconsin asked him to do last year.” Hayes is asked to do too much in college, so it makes him look like a worse prospect than he probably is.
A player can also be placed in a situation that makes him look a lot better than he really is. Schmitz says he’s scouted college 4s who look like “dynamic slashers that are really athletic,” but when they’re against “an NBA wing and he has to create on the perimeter” they don’t have the same impact. It can be difficult to spot these situations, but Schmitz suggests focusing on the player at the 4. If he’s a shooter, it’s likely a better harbinger of NBA success.
It might feel like you’re navigating the Westworld maze when scouting the draft, but that’s OK. It’s not easy for anyone. Scout X says he likes to “watch the games as a fan and a talent evaluator, but I never try to be a general manager. ” His point is to minimize distractions like your favorite team since roster turnover happens so quickly. Scouting is about finding the players who impact winning; let the roster-building happen later in the process.
"I know how to play basketball - we'll work with CSKA." Kenneth Farid flew to Russia with five suitcases and played the first match of
World champion, Denver Nuggets star. All this is in the past. No one knows how ready Kenneth Farid is for the level of the Euroleague and the VTB United League. But his name alone makes you look forward to incredible energy and aggression basketball. Despite a short trial contract and a trial period, the forward flew to Moscow with serious luggage: five suitcases, a couple of bags and the hope of staying here for a long time.
Kenneth Farid, nicknamed Manimal (man-animal - “man-animal”) turned out to be very useful in CSKA. Injuries to Nikola Milutinov and Tornike Shengelia left the team powerless under the rim. But the American did not have time to build up: one training session with a new team - and immediately on the plane. The European schedule is as close as possible to the NBA schedule: less practice, more games.
- The training was not difficult. I know how to play basketball and how to plow. It’s not difficult to work in training, it was much more difficult to endure a long flight here - I still haven’t come to my senses, ”Farid said in an interview with View from Above and CSKA-Basket-TV immediately after the first lesson with the team. — I know that CSKA is one of the best clubs in Europe. This applies to everything: the level of the organization, coaches, fans. Happy to be here, happy to play basketball for this team. I will give my 100% like everyone else. So I think we'll work.
Farid's first match took place in Perm, a special city on the Russian basketball map. CSKA beat Parma - 82:60, although in reality it was less calm than the score shows. Manimal spent only 11 minutes on the floor of the legendary Hammer Palace, during which he made one inaccurate field goal and two from the free throw line, made 2 rebounds and 1 interception.
Man-beast on the floor! Kenneth Farid made his debut for CSKA
Kenneth's first points in Russia are still ahead, but for now, CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis is talking about him:
- Congratulations to the team. We had a serious match and showed an unsuccessful game in attack only in one segment. But here it is worth considering that we tried to build Farid into our attacking schemes, and he spent only one training session with the team. We didn't score much in the second quarter, but we played well in defense and managed to stop a rather productive attack from Perm. This is proved by their last matches: they have a lot of snipers and creators, they know how to attack from different points. So I'm happy with our defense, as well as the fact of victory.
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From a hole in the basket to three-point shots. The evolution of basketball rules
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From a hole in the basket to three-point shots. The evolution of basketball rules
From a hole in the basket to three-point shots. Evolution of Basketball Rules
In January 1892, the first rules of basketball were published and the first ever official match was played. Matchtv.ru tells how, when and why the rules of the popular game changed.
The first basketball rules, written by an ordinary physical education teacher James Naismith, included only 13 points. The first basketball basket was an ordinary wooden bucket for collecting fruit, from which even the bottom was not immediately thought to be cut. So after each hit, I had to climb onto the ladder and get the ball. Then they thought of making a small hole in the bottom to push the ball through it with a special stick.
And the first basketball had little resemblance to the modern one.
It took decades for basketball to become more dynamic, spectacular and understandable to the viewer.
Dribbling
You won't believe it, but 124 years ago in basketball it was forbidden to move around the ball with the ball - it could only be passed from one player to another. Just imagine that once basketball was deprived of one of the most spectacular components - dribbling.
In the XIX century, having received the ball, the players, like idols, froze in place and looked for a teammate. Only in 1901 were basketball players allowed to move with the ball, hitting it on the floor. After another 8 years, players got the opportunity to shoot after dribbling.
Three second zone under the ring
The three second rule dates back to the early 1930s. Without him, the secret to success in basketball was too simple: whoever is taller wins. To give a chance to less high, but technical players, a rule was introduced: no one can be near the ring for more than three seconds. The limited area gradually changed its shape and size, and for the fact that it was highlighted in a different color on the site, it received the slang name “paint” (paint). It became easier for short players to get under the basket, and basketball became more spectacular.
The accidental invention of the block shot
Do you think basketball has never had a goaltender? Wrong! Until 1944, ultra-tall players essentially replaced goalkeepers: they took a place under the ring and, in a jump, brushed off everything (or almost everything) that flies in its direction. It is clear that such tactics harmed the entertainment and sports spirit: instead of an exciting game, there were running and high jump competitions.
72 years ago this shop was closed - it was forbidden to touch the ball that had passed the highest point of its trajectory. So, quite by accident, one of its most striking elements appeared in basketball - a block shot. By the way, Timofey Mozgov's bread.
Attack time limit
Another fact that is hard to believe now: the first basketball game ended with a score of 2:1.
It's just that before the teams played their attacks for a long time, trying to bring them to the right one. Especially popular was the tactic of deliberately dragging out time. The players of the team that led the score did not even try to attack someone else's ring, and it was possible to take the ball away from them only by breaking the rules.
In order not to kill the interest of the audience, at 19In 1954, the NBA introduced a 24-second attack time limit. The speed of the game immediately increased, and then the effectiveness. Now not a single basketball game in the world ends with a sad football score.
Three-point arc
The best team in the world right now is the Golden State Warriors. With the 2015 NBA Finals victory over the Clevelands, the Warriors proved once again that basketball isn't just for the big ones. The light and undersized (by basketball standards) five has become the main feature of the Golden State, which is talked about even in Russia. And three-point shots helped the Californians in this. Without them, the Warriors would have had no chance against the huge Timofey Mozgov and his partners.
In the NBA, a three-point arc was drawn on the court in 1979, and in international basketball, immediately after the 1984 Olympics. Short and fast players finally have their trump card against powerful but less mobile centers. Previously, everyone tried to get closer to the ring, but now the ball scored from a long distance has risen in price by one and a half times. If before the appearance of the arc, the main stars in basketball were mainly giants (Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain), then bright snipers came to the fore: Larry Bird, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan.
And, of course, the greatest sniper of our time, Stephen Curry.
Text: Konstantin Kucher
Photo: Getty Images, hoophall.com
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This peace of information is going to make our defensive preparations better and easier. 
We will rather match speed with speed. 
Read one by one and rate his abilities on the court, and when you are done, you will have the whole picture and you will know what needs to be done to defend him.
The shooter goes wide and the center dives toward the rim. 
Keep in mind that the scouting is all about the details and writing down everything you saw. Using this kind of information is going to help you prepare your team in the best way possible in order to win, and it is going to teach your players how to look at the basketball.
No matter how many resources franchises invest in the draft, it still feels random. “I’d call it more of an educated guess,” DraftExpress scout Joshua Riddell says. “All an NBA team can do is get all the information they can … Projecting even three years into the future is impossible, much less for an entire career.”
That’s the driving force behind my love for scouting the draft, and you can experience that, too.
” McDonough wanted to get an idea of a player’s ceiling and what he offers in a basement performance. This is a handy format for couch scouts since it minimizes the necessary time commitment. “You won’t be able to watch every game,” Riddell says. “But make sure you evaluate a player’s whole season and put the games you saw in context of his entire-season production.”
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“People will say a player can get stronger, but that’s not necessarily the truth if they don’t have the frame to hang meat on,” Scout Y says. “If they have a thin waist, thin legs, narrow shoulders, they’re not going to be able to put on the strength to handle the rigors of the season.”
Cavaliers rookie Kay Felder is even shorter, but weighs close to 180 pounds. Ulis could have success in the league, but his body is a natural limitation that must be accounted for.
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“There will be times [with a prospect] where we say he’s not an NBA player, but he has one elite skill,” Scout Y says, citing Danny Green as an example. Green checked the boxes of a 3-and-D role player straight out of North Carolina, but he wasn’t competent in many other parts of his game, like passing and ballhandling. “Being passable in a lot of different areas in addition to [being elite in one] is really important,” Schmitz says. Green enhanced his strengths after the draft and eventually landed in a perfect situation with the Spurs, a team that routinely accentuates the best qualities of its players. A player with just one or two premium skills can carve out a successful career if he falls to the right team.
“We may never see someone like Draymond Green again, but teams are going to try to find the next big man who can create and defend. So a better comparison is saying that the prospect will try to fill a similar role to Green, not that they will have the same skills or impact.”
“Nigel Hayes is a good example of this,” Riddell says. “He could become a stretch 4 if he can catch and shoot, but he’ll probably never be someone who can have the offense run through him, like Wisconsin asked him to do last year.” Hayes is asked to do too much in college, so it makes him look like a worse prospect than he probably is.
” His point is to minimize distractions like your favorite team since roster turnover happens so quickly. Scouting is about finding the players who impact winning; let the roster-building happen later in the process.
CSKA beat Parma - 82:60, although in reality it was less calm than the score shows. Manimal spent only 11 minutes on the floor of the legendary Hammer Palace, during which he made one inaccurate field goal and two from the free throw line, made 2 rebounds and 1 interception. 
So I'm happy with our defense, as well as the fact of victory. 
The evolution of basketball rules 
Just imagine that once basketball was deprived of one of the most spectacular components - dribbling. 
It became easier for short players to get under the basket, and basketball became more spectacular. 
And three-point shots helped the Californians in this. Without them, the Warriors would have had no chance against the huge Timofey Mozgov and his partners. 
