PlaySight at Hoop City - SmartCourt for Basketball
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My name is Reid Ouse
and I'm the Program Director
here at Hoop City
where we have installed
a PlaySight SmartCourt.
What that means is that
we have five cameras
that are synced together
and are connected to
an on-court touch-screen console.
You know, my first interaction that
I had with PlaySight was really exciting.
The instant replay feature I think
is the best part about PlaySight.
Coaches are constantly talking about
the importance of flow and practice and games,
and so having the ability
to walk over to the board
and push instant replay,
it pops up quickly,
you are able to dissect
what the issue is,
break it down and get
right back onto the floor.
You can be in and out
in 25 to 30 seconds.
Players are coming in here
whether they are in third grade
or they are college
and professional players.
They come in here and the first thing
they are talking about is
are we going to be able
to use the monitor?
Am I going to be able to watch my
work out after we are done?
Can I take it home with me?
And the answer is "yes".
So from camps to workouts and
practices and games, all of that
now the players not only have the ability
what we take notes in a lot of our workouts,
now they can take those notes
and cross reference them
with actual video footage
by the time they get to their car,
leaving the facility, which is pretty cool,
the game still fresh in their mind.
The life streaming feature is great.
I work with a lot of players whose parents
say that: "If we have to work till four",
and there is a game at four,
and they are still at work,
they now have the ability
on their iPhone or their tablet
to pull up a game and
to watch their kids.
So now they are
not missing out on that,
and when they come home
at the dinner table
now they can have a conversation
as if they were at the game.
I've been able to work with various film machine
platforms in my basketball career,
and well, a lot of those are effective,
I think PlaySight is completely different.
The other technologies allow
to pull clips, but it takes a while
as opposed to PlaySight
really being in real time
grab that footage, show it to your player,
so that they can make the adjustments
off of that in real time.
For us to be able to go get
real time video footage
an talk to a player
about their footwork,
being able to sell a drive by maybe
extending one leg
forward two or three inches more
or talking about a balance stance
being able to give a player options.
That ability to go and
dissect that immediately
gives the player that extra benefit
of being able to carry
over their training
and bring it directly into the game.
PlaySight has the ability to connect
players with their training
to their off the floor social
and mobile experience,
which is going to allow them to tap into
the next generation of basketball players.