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Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra is the second longest-tenured NBA head coach, having been head coach of the Heat since the 2008–09 season. Popovich is the only active head coach inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. [1] He is the only current head coach to have been hired by his current team in the 1990s.
Lawrence Dean Oliver [1] [2] [3] (born February 6, 1969) is an American statistician and coach. Oliver is a prominent contributor to the advanced statistical evaluation of basketball . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He is the author of Basketball on Paper , the former producer of the defunct Journal of Basketball Studies. [ 6 ]
Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behavior of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as well as overall physical conditioning. Coaches also have the responsibility to improve their team by ...
Sometime the players statistics are divided by minutes played and multiplied by 48 minutes (had he played the entire game), denoted by * per 48 min. or *48M. A player who makes double digits in a game in any two of the PTS, REB, AST, STL, and BLK statistics is said to make a double double ; in three statistics, a triple double ; in four ...
He coached the Celtics in the 1978–79 season before relinquishing his coaching duty to focus on his playing career. [15] Richie Guerin had coached 372 games as a player-coach, the most among the other player-coaches. He was the player-coach of the St. Louis / Atlanta Hawks for five seasons, from 1964 to 1967 and from 1968 to 1970.
Of course, only two coaches have ever surpassed the 1,000-win mark in NCAA Division I men’s basketball: Jim Boeheim of Syracuse (1,015 wins) and Mike Krzyzewski of Army and Duke (1,202 wins).
This is a list of college men's basketball coaches by number of career wins across all three divisions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the two divisions of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
In professional basketball, the most commonly used statistical benchmark for comparing the overall value of players is called efficiency. It is a composite basketball statistic that is derived from basic individual statistics: points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers, and shot attempts. In theory, efficiency accounts for both a ...