Game · open run · team practice
Record a game or an open run, and every number tells you where it came from
Training is you and the camera. This is the rest of your basketball: a real game, a Saturday open run, a team practice. Put the laptop where it can see the floor, start a run, and play.
- Start a run. Game, open run or team practice. Name who is on the floor.
- Pick who the camera is scoring. One player, or a few. You assign each body the camera sees, because the app has no idea who anyone is.
- Play, and someone taps the game. A parent on the sideline, a coach, a teammate on the bench. One tap for a make, a rebound, a box out. Or say it out loud.
- End the run and read the card. Movement grades from the camera, the box score from the taps, and the video with both of them running in step.
Measured by the camera
Thirty-three body points, read in your own browser, turned into scores by our code. This is the half nobody has to remember to tap.
- Dribble: how fast, how low, and which hand
- Attacking the rim: first step, plant foot, takeoff
- Defensive stance: feet against shoulders, knee and hip bend, hands up
- Boxing out: hips back, wide base, arms out, and how long it was held
- Balance through a move, from your center of mass over your feet
- Shooting form on every rep, the same three scores as training
- Fatigue drift: how all of the above changed from your first minutes to your last
Logged by a person
One tap, or one word out loud. The app writes it down with the second it happened and who said so, and it never pretends it saw it.
- Makes and misses: two, three and the free throw line
- Rebounds, offensive and defensive
- Assists, steals, blocks, turnovers, fouls
- Box outs, getting back on defense, the hustle play nobody writes down
- Transition offense, transition defense, the fast break
- Whether the game was close, and whether it was late
The camera sees a body. It has no ball, no hoop, no jersey and no face, so it cannot see a shot go in and it never claims it did. Anything about the ball is logged by a person. Every figure on the card carries the word MEASURED or LOGGED beside it, on the screen and in anything you send a coach, so nobody ever has to guess which is which.
Open run · 52 minutesThursday night · five on five · one player tracked
Logged by a person
18Points
52%2pt fg
36%3pt fg
80%Free throw
55%eFG
4 / 7Reb off / def
5Assists
2Steals
1Blocks
3Turnovers
9Box outs
11Back on D
Measured by the camera
81Shot form
74Dribble
69Stance
77Box out form
83Balance
71First step
-6Fatigue drift
FireElement
Fatigue drift is the change from this player's own first reps to their last, not a judgement about their fitness. An uncalibrated movement score is a rough guide until the player runs the short calibration and the app learns their ranges.
Example card. The layout is real, the numbers on it are made up to show it. Nothing here is a player's result.
Watch it back with the feedback in step. Every score and every tap is stamped in milliseconds from the first frame of the recording, so playing the run back replays it as it happened: the form grade lands on the rep it came from, the tap lands on the possession it came from. Nothing is invented on the way back.
One player, or your players. Track yourself, or track the players on your roster who have Hooper Buddy accounts and share with the team. A run only writes to another player's record when they have opened that scope, and a player under 18 is only added by the owner, a coach or a parent of a group they already belong to. Everyone else is a name on the roster and nothing else.
It does not read faces, eyes or body language. A camera across a court cannot resolve an expression, and we are not going to guess at how a kid is feeling from a webcam. When a session needs that, the app asks, one tap, and files the answer as the player's own words.
Under pressure means something you marked. The app cannot feel a moment. What it can do is take the minutes you logged as close, or late, and compare the form it measured in those minutes with the rest of the run. Real, and honest about where the word came from.
It still plays like a card. The run ends on an element, Fire down to Air, the same meter that grades a training rep, and it feeds the points and badges the rest of the app already runs on. The card is the fun. The label under every number is the point.
Game and open run mode is part of Pro and Elite, and of every seat on a Family, Team or League plan. The roster and the coach view are Team and League. Basic does not record, so it does not have this.
