[DIME]You Could Be an NBA Scout

lwqbulb · Apr 5, 2009

http://dimemag.com/2008/11/you-could-be-an-nba-scout/

All you’ve got to do is play video games. No, seriously.

Rockets’ GM Daryl Morey, who is widely considered one of the most progressive NBA GM’s, uses NBA Live ‘09 as another tool to evaluate how players would work wearing a Rockets’ uni.

Because the new breed of hoop video games update with real-life scouting information, Morey only needs to take another player, plug him into the Rockets’ system, and see how his game interacts with Yao’s, T-Mac’s, Ron Artest’s, and Rick Adelman’s approach.

No doubt he did this last year when thinking about adding Artest.

“On the game, you can see how adding Artest can change the dynamic of your team. You can program it to run offensive sets with Artest and any combination of your players.”

Morey believes that this type of “scouting” will continue to have a place in the game.

“Simulation is great and will have a bigger and bigger place in the process,” Morey said. “But at the end of the day you can’t simulate a player being out too late the night before or his body language on the bench or how he interacts with teammates. Some things you have to do in person.”

It’s a good thing that this isn’t the only scouting tool - because otherwise those guys who get buckets in the video game, and the video game only, like Brent Barry, Mike Finley, and J.J. Barea would be getting max deals.
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NotInMyHouse · Apr 5, 2009

lwqbulb said:

http://dimemag.com/2008/11/you-could-be-an-nba-scout/
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That's pretty interesting. I wonder if Ron's shot selection was equallyas questionable on 2k9 as it is on the court.

HTown_TMac · Apr 5, 2009

NotInMyHouse said:

That's pretty interesting. I wonder if Ron's shot selection was equallyas questionable on 2k9 as it is on the court.
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Well, if it was Live he wouldn't be ina Rockets uni.

Marcus Bryant · Apr 5, 2009

HTown_TMac said:

Well, if it was Live he wouldn't be ina Rockets uni.
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deprecation of live continues.

Marcus Bryant · Apr 5, 2009

HTown_TMac said:

Well, if it was Live he wouldn't be ina Rockets uni.
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deprecation of live continues. maybe their games will get a little bit better when they also have to beg for a bailout from the house.

RV6 · Apr 5, 2009

he must have plugged in Ron Artest from 2003-04...

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