I remember hearing Gonzaga coaches reference efficiency numbers heading into

May 29, 2019
11:07:12pm

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halftime and end of game interviews with sideline reporters. Crazy how fast some of the data becomes available. I sat in statistics classes at BYU laboring to work out answers by hand and it was so SLOOOOOOWWWWWWWW

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Spent a bunch of time with Burgess and Pope last week in Provo. Wowzer.

macdizzle

5/29/19 2:58pm

Very cool. So question for you about the camp

RockyBalboa

5/29/19 3:01pm

It sucks don't go. No need to try to get in 🙂

macdizzle

5/29/19 3:03pm

It opens up for pre registration in Jan for about a week

Stocktonblues

5/29/19 3:04pm

K thanks!

RockyBalboa

5/29/19 3:08pm

Great post. Thanks

PortlandBlue

5/29/19 3:10pm

This kind of talk is starting to make me a basketball fan.

ditch

5/29/19 3:01pm

spot on. Continuing reports keep getting better.

roseyscenario

5/29/19 3:03pm

MIRL

carlstud

5/29/19 3:04pm

Just win baby....

TeeKaa

5/29/19 3:07pm

Always the bottom line..analytical approach for BYU worked

Heinz57

5/29/19 3:24pm

The analytical approach of the staff is the most positive news, IMO.

kudzucoug

5/29/19 3:12pm

Agree...smart way to address ongoing issues

Heinz57

5/29/19 3:23pm

did they mention who else was top 3 in using data?

byuprof

5/29/19 3:13pm

Yeah, LOL. If they are making up stats like they

stoils

5/29/19 3:18pm

It was an offhand comment, but it wouldn't surprise me if they

macdizzle

5/29/19 3:24pm

would be interesting to see stats.results of other programs

byuprof

5/29/19 3:35pm

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Buffalo

5/29/19 3:14pm

We found one in Toolson

Dangerous

5/29/19 3:58pm

So how do you establish the baseline for those numbers?

kotacoug

5/29/19 3:35pm

Why would using last year be useless?

flavordave

5/29/19 3:37pm

Countless ways.... he’ll defense doe example.... donto the scheme or

kotacoug

5/29/19 3:41pm

How is any useful data collected then? It's not like those random variables are

flavordave

5/29/19 3:44pm

As players ola more in Pope’s system then they can gradually collect data.

kotacoug

5/29/19 4:02pm

A lot of that data is already collected

LCcoug

5/29/19 9:59pm

This is correct.

macdizzle

5/30/19 1:03pm

Last year. I don't think it's useless. It's the best you can do anyway.

macdizzle

5/29/19 3:37pm

Ha, this is funny. He gave a great example of how previous

messi

5/29/19 7:32pm

That is very exciting news. Data absolutely matters because humans can only

chazen

5/29/19 3:46pm

buried in the middle of all that: "I saw Yoeli". That's potentially as importa

Incentivize

5/29/19 3:49pm

I did in fact see him in the basketball practice facility. He wasn't even

macdizzle

5/29/19 3:57pm

OK, so any chance Yoeli comes back or has that ship sailed?

WJCougar

5/29/19 4:36pm

No clue

macdizzle

5/29/19 4:52pm

I think there is a chance.

brj8

5/29/19 7:46pm

Lol...just saw the announcement.

WJCougar

5/29/19 8:36pm

Thanks for giving away all the coaches new secrets and strategies.

idcougarfan

5/29/19 4:03pm

That is how Gonzaga beats BYU every year....they research CB.

WJCougar

5/29/19 4:36pm

That is actually how they lost at home those times.

Florwood

5/29/19 7:08pm

Only layups? No dunking. Great, 1950, here we come. ..

jaredm

5/29/19 4:36pm

RE: Only layups? No dunking. Great, 1950, here we come. ..

WJCougar

5/29/19 4:38pm

Do they seem confident in getting us back to the NIT?

Y4LYFE

5/29/19 4:45pm

Really encouraging to hear.

raines31

5/29/19 5:17pm

Yeah yeah. We’ve heard it all before. In fact, if you do a search history

Gerald-DeGroot

5/29/19 5:50pm

Boom. Yoeli back.

macdizzle

5/29/19 7:59pm

Sounds a little like Bronco's philosophy, in a good way.

Seasider

5/29/19 8:39pm

I remember hearing Gonzaga coaches reference efficiency numbers heading into

M0053

5/29/19 11:07pm

Gonzaga coaches are all about data. It's how there built the program from

Schultz is back

5/29/19 11:38pm

I LOVE analytics, but I hope the coaches understand the concept of small sample

DetmerForever

5/30/19 9:40am

If they don't, we have bigger problems to worry about.

kudzucoug

5/30/19 1:56pm

Sounds like my dream staff. I love the advanced analytics stuff.

jkccoug

5/30/19 1:49pm

Hearing this gets me excited, especially knowing that our ENTIRE coaching...

icecougar

5/30/19 2:03pm

Did you have similar interactions with the previous staff so uou

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