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

May 29, 2019
11:38:39pm

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nothing 20 years ago to the power of the West today. They use it in recruiting, player development, everything. If Pope is serious about it, that's the kind of future we could be looking at. It won't happen overnight though.

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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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