NBA's Portland Trail Blazers use Apple's iPad in-game to make real-time adjustments
In their 102-91 victory over the New York Knicks on Monday, the Portland Trail Blazers were seen using iPads on the bench to study in-game footage, which players say helped carry the team to its eleventh consecutive win.
According to a report from Blazer's Edge, multiple players on the team are spending their time on the bench reviewing game tape on Apple's iPad as they look to get a leg up on opponents.
The publication notes Damian Lillard, Wesley Matthews, Nicolas Batum and LaMarcus Aldridge all use iPads during games to study film and make quick adjustments.
"It does [help] because you get to see it [again], and in the game everything happens so fast," Matthews said. "You ask yourself, 'Did I rush it? I felt like I rushed it.' [The video can tell me] when I'm in that same situation -- off a flare screen, when Nic [Batum] passes over the top -- [if] I have more time to get the shot off or [if] I have to shoot it at that speed again. Or, could I have driven it?"
Matthews went on to say that the iPad allows him to study both aspects of his game. On offense, the shooting guard looks at his form and whether there were options he didn't see on court. On defense, he studies his stance, positioning on opponents and how players get in scores.
It is unclear what app the Blazers are using to review footage, but the system is apparently near real-time. Starting players can watch clips from their first rotation by the time they hit the bench, shaving minutes off adjustments normally made during halftime.
Players are also using Apple's tablet to review footage post-game, where a more thorough analysis can be rendered, to be put into action at the next game.
According to a report from Blazer's Edge, multiple players on the team are spending their time on the bench reviewing game tape on Apple's iPad as they look to get a leg up on opponents.
The publication notes Damian Lillard, Wesley Matthews, Nicolas Batum and LaMarcus Aldridge all use iPads during games to study film and make quick adjustments.
"It does [help] because you get to see it [again], and in the game everything happens so fast," Matthews said. "You ask yourself, 'Did I rush it? I felt like I rushed it.' [The video can tell me] when I'm in that same situation -- off a flare screen, when Nic [Batum] passes over the top -- [if] I have more time to get the shot off or [if] I have to shoot it at that speed again. Or, could I have driven it?"
Matthews went on to say that the iPad allows him to study both aspects of his game. On offense, the shooting guard looks at his form and whether there were options he didn't see on court. On defense, he studies his stance, positioning on opponents and how players get in scores.
It is unclear what app the Blazers are using to review footage, but the system is apparently near real-time. Starting players can watch clips from their first rotation by the time they hit the bench, shaving minutes off adjustments normally made during halftime.
Players are also using Apple's tablet to review footage post-game, where a more thorough analysis can be rendered, to be put into action at the next game.
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Yes, enterprises (e.g. businesses and government organizations) can set up their own Enterprise App Stores for distributing their own apps to their employees.
Yes, enterprises (e.g. businesses and government organizations) can set up their own Enterprise App Stores for distributing their own apps to their employees.
Yes, there's two ways to do it. The in-house app program lets an organization write and distribute their apps to their own devices. It is almost identical to developer phones, Apple provides a provisioning profile on to your company's phones and you can load apps signed by that profile. Apple doesn't approve or ever sees the app.
The second way is the B2B program. Here the app goes through Apple and is approved, but can only be sold or distributed to specific companies. The companies you select buy the app through the volume purchase program.
https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
I'm starting to think that you just might be a analog guy in a digital world.
No worries, I asked the same question last year
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https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
I'm starting to think that you just might be a analog guy in a digital world.
Is that a Joe Walsh reference? Man I wished that song didn't make him seem 90.
This is cool. How long before another Team cries foul?! Isn't Samsung sponsoring some sort of tablet usage with the NBA?
Yes it is. Good catch.
There’s a third way, which doesn’t involve setting up formal distribution or programs. Just drag and drop an app to iTunes, then synch your iOS device (make sure the new app is selected for installing onto the device).
I learned this while working on contract for a smaller company (15 people in-house) who develops music software, and they were building a free iOS app to interact with it. I did product testing for them, and the common way to distribute the iOS app betas to the beta testers was the app itself attached to email. Just drag and drop from email to iTunes, and voila. It was updated next time you synched.
Of course, this didn’t involve an IT department, or have other Enterprise-level controls (desirable in larger organizations), but it IS a third way!