Drives

We track the drives towards the basket from both sides (left or right). Once again, we track all three parameters — successful, attempts and percentage. A drive occurs when a player goes towards the basket with face ahead while dribbling. The idea is to attack the basket. A drive can end in a shot, pass and turnover, but sometimes a player who drives to the rim can decide to keep dribbling without making any of those three actions. Those are types of drives which we do not track. In the parameters tab, we track only drives which finish with a field goal attempt of the player who made the drive.

Drives in this section are not a new pre-shot combination type. Usually, drives might occur after an isolation, catch and drive, screens on and off the ball, even a cut. The idea of the section is to analyze only the drives, whether they are more dangerous on the left, or from the right and how successful they are overall.

We analyze how a player defends the drives of his personal match-ups — from both sides and overall (successful, attempts, percentage).