50% of NBA GM's use NBA Live video game as scouting tool

[Plainview1981]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,5602549.story

Teams plug in to video game to evaluate talent in NBA

The EA Sports game is used by about half the franchises to check out what the competition is up to and plan accordingly.

Diane Pucin

November 28, 2008

Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey doesn't play video games for fun or fantasy.

Morey uses the EA Sports NBA game for professional reasons. He uses it to help evaluate talent. Morey says he is a statistical junky, an admirer of Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane and a mathematical nerd. "I've always loved numbers," Morey said. "I don't play EA Sports as a game. I use it as a tool."

"Say if you're thinking about acquiring Ron Artest," Morey said from Hawaii, where he was evaluating talent in person at the Maui Classic college tournament.

"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 said that even this early in the season, there are enough statistics available to evaluate rookies such as Minnesota's Kevin Love (from UCLA) and Memphis' O.J. Mayo (from USC)

"For example, you can tell how often, if Love throws an outlet pass, how often his team scores on the possession," Morey said. "You can tell how often Mayo goes right versus left, how effective the team is with Mayo pulling up and shooting versus when he pulls up and passes instead."

According to the NBA, about half the teams are using the video game as part of personnel evaluation. In the quiet of his office, Morey said he can see how often a player posts up and gets shots on cuts to the basket as well as about defensive and offensive tendencies."

Welp, now we know for sure that NBA GM's are morons.

[mrhonline]

Can't they at least use the better game?

[mattlanta]

I highly doubt anyone would give this much publicity to a game (NBA Live) far more inferior in terms of reality to another game (NBA 2k) without getting paid. In terms of gaming, you can argue that Live is better online, but other than that, the 2k basketball series blows EA's pathetic game out of the water.

When Daryl Morey claims how he sets these video game players up in offensive sets and what not, I hope he also takes into effect how terrible EA has rated most of these players too...

[capstone21]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,5602549.story

Teams plug in to video game to evaluate talent in NBA

The EA Sports game is used by about half the franchises to check out what the competition is up to and plan accordingly.

Diane Pucin

November 28, 2008

Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey doesn't play video games for fun or fantasy.

Morey uses the EA Sports NBA game for professional reasons. He uses it to help evaluate talent. Morey says he is a statistical junky, an admirer of Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane and a mathematical nerd. "I've always loved numbers," Morey said. "I don't play EA Sports as a game. I use it as a tool."

"Say if you're thinking about acquiring Ron Artest," Morey said from Hawaii, where he was evaluating talent in person at the Maui Classic college tournament.

"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 said that even this early in the season, there are enough statistics available to evaluate rookies such as Minnesota's Kevin Love (from UCLA) and Memphis' O.J. Mayo (from USC)

"For example, you can tell how often, if Love throws an outlet pass, how often his team scores on the possession," Morey said. "You can tell how often Mayo goes right versus left, how effective the team is with Mayo pulling up and shooting versus when he pulls up and passes instead."

According to the NBA, about half the teams are using the video game as part of personnel evaluation. In the quiet of his office, Morey said he can see how often a player posts up and gets shots on cuts to the basket as well as about defensive and offensive tendencies."

Welp, now we know for sure that NBA GM's are morons.

That is pretty pathetic

[NJHAWK]

Does this mean Rick Sund can see how effective we will be when Speedy comes back?

[dlpin]

If this was even remotely close to truth, user generated rosters with more realistic figures wouldnt be so popular.

People need to be more skeptical of "endorsements" like these. EA has dumped and continues to dump boatloads of money on endorsement and licensing fees, so of course anyone involved in the nba is going to say how great their products are.

This reminds me of the deal NFL has with canon and photographers. Canon claims to be the top brand for sports photography, and when you look at the sidelines of an NFL game you might even think so. But the thing is that the NFL requires all photographers to use canon jackets, caps and straps even when they themselves shoot other brands. Meanwhile, over half of them shoot nikons.