Michigan basketball uses tech to track exertion
Interesting piece on how the coaches can monitor how much the players are exerting themselves. Derrick Walton's second-half surge last year could be explained by a midseason discovery by the staff about how hard he was working in practice.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2018/01/a_tiny_wearable_devic…
January 18th, 2018 at 1:15 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 1:17 PM ^
It's rare an Mlive article gets more than a skim from me but this one was pretty interesting. Curious what those numbers looked like from the msu to Maryland short rest.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
Completely agree. MLive is usually 4 days late and irrelevant, but this was a decent piece of work from them.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:18 PM ^
I dont know how widely used this is in college basketball, although I suspect it is, but its pretty much standard in professional sports these days..especially soccer becuse they play so many games and run a ton. In fact, many soccer players wear it in games. They can track everything from exertion, to speed, ground covered, etc etc etc.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:19 PM ^
We have come a long way from the story about Tommy Amaker having to buy his own VCR because the team didn't have one to watch game tape.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:25 PM ^
Eff. Wow. That's...It's...Just...an entirely other world.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:25 PM ^
This is really cool. If we're one of the only programs to have this it'd be an awesome recruiting pitch as well. It's amazing the technology beig infused in sports to make and shape athletes to get them to their peak performaces.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
It's called a manzier.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:17 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
The dude knows his stuff, I picked his brain when I showed up early enough to a couple games as a Maize Rage member. We're lucky to have our guys being looked after by one of the premier strength coaches in college basketball.