Quick spoiler: it's about basketball, not photography.
Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
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Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#32How was he able to make shots from behind the basket?
Jump shots are taken at peak height. He probably jumped in the out-of-bounds direction for those and released the ball past the boundary line.
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#33It will be interesting to compare this shot chart, of the greatest scorer of his generation, to what Steph Curry's, who may be the greatest scorer of his generation, career shot chart ends up being. Where Curry's game is extremely efficient, with most points coming from behind the line or near the basket, Kobe was shooting all over the place. Kobe's game was also much more reliant on getting to the foul line. They we…
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#34For anyone interested in the raw dataset: https://www.putdat.com/hnJwrwM
Anyone know how the data is collected? Is it computer generated by some software watching the game or is there someone faithfully capturing this into some database? Does the data exist for other players.
I'm a bit amazed that this kind of data is captured and wonder how accurate it is.
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#35For anyone interested in the raw dataset: https://www.putdat.com/hnJwrwM
Anyone know how the data is collected? Is it computer generated by some software watching the game or is there someone faithfully capturing this into some database? Does the data exist for other players. I'm a bit amazed that this kind of data is captured and wonder how accurate it is.
ha! I guess I asked too soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_tracking_(National_Bask...
I wonder what the proprietary software is. Anyone know? Based on opencv perhaps? Amazing!
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#36A random thought, but you could use this data to play an extremely long game of HORSE with Kobe Bryant.
I'm sure someone is already setting up a Tumblr blog to document their attempt :)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but a jump shot is more difficult after a step backwards. Perhaps it isn't if you're Kobe Bryant? :)
> But the situation isn't really any better if you take a single step forwards. Not following your logic...
A step forward doesn't take you that much closer to make the shot significantly easier. Of course, you're a little closer but not that much.
A step backwards moves your balance and you have momentum backwards so getting an immediate upright jump shot without losing power/accuracy is more difficult.
Two different things at play here. At least this is my experience as a former competitive basketball player...
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#38This visualization is cool, but did anyone else get stuck in it and have to force reload to scroll on mobile?
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#39This visualization is cool, but did anyone else get stuck in it and have to force reload to scroll on mobile?
Scroll on the extreme edges of the page. But yes bad UX
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#40Quick spoiler: it's about basketball, not photography.
For the downvoters: submission title didn't specify so I genuinely expected photography. Seems like valid clarification to me!