The NBA, the best basketball league in the world, relies on facial recognition to monitor its players. It is a system that is used in more than half of the teams in this galactic competition and that the company develops Noah Basketball. One of the last to have incorporated this system are the New York Knicks. Among those who already had it, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Toronto Raptors stand out. There are also other formations such as the Washington Mystics, from the women’s league.
The system is very impressive since it offers real-time data on how players shoot and with what results. And all thanks to, very graphically, several cameras distributed around the court that detect the faces of the players. From that moment on, data begins to be provided regarding the arc drawn by the throws; the shots that go to the right or left, the power … All this information, through an app, is instantly downloaded to laptops, tablet or other devices, which allows to rectify or persevere in a certain line of successes.
Mental focus
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It is very attractive to discover the effectiveness of the shots, thanks to these types of tools and how adequate sports performance is obtained through, above all, training. The key lies in the way in which players store a certain line of fire in their minds, and of course in their muscle memory. In the end it is about checking with what power, positioning is thrown and the curve that describes the ball. Among others, these are the aspects that are taken into account to discover the formula for success, that is, how more shots enter the basket.
In the end everything becomes a routine that is in the mind of the player. The algorithms are specified in data and this is transferred to the players by the coaches. Growing up as athletes with this type of technological tools, let’s say it favors the path to excellence. It is no longer about assumptions or intuitions, it is the numbers that finish explaining what is happening, for better or for worse. For this reason, systems like Noah Basketball are also in the lower echelons of basketball. Something similar happens in Spain where a Valencian company promotes NBN23.
Real-time information is very decisive. A player can know how the shots he takes have gone in a specific fraction of the time. Facial recognition allows it in the NBA in a very widespread way compared to other leagues. But it is also very important to accumulate the information produced by the system for a longer term. It is the way to detect the areas for improvement that require more time.
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