Author
Chris Alibaruho
Founder of Hoopr and BodyMetrix AI, LLC
Chris Alibaruho is the founder of Hoopr and BodyMetrix AI, LLC. He created Hoopr to help parents, players, and coaches better understand basketball performance through game stat tracking, player development insights, game analysis, and shooting workouts. His work on Hoopr is informed by real-world youth basketball use cases and the challenges families and teams face when trying to turn game data into useful development insights.
Articles are reviewed by Hoopr Coaching Advisors.
Articles by Chris Alibaruho
- Player Development
How to Tell If a Basketball Player Is Improving: What Parents Should Actually Look For
Why improvement shows up as repeated patterns in decisions, efficiency, role, and consistency, not one stat or one big night.
- For Parents
AAU Basketball Stats: What Parents Should Track During Tournaments
A manageable tournament stat set for parents, and how to read patterns across a weekend instead of judging each game on its own.
- Player Development
How to Get Better at Basketball: Turn Game Performance Into a Development Plan
How to turn game stats into a focused development loop: find the patterns that repeat, choose one or two priorities, practice them, and recheck.
- Player Development
How to Improve Shot Selection in Basketball
What better shot selection actually looks like, and how to use shot location, game context, and repeated patterns to improve it.
- Player Development
Basketball Shooting Slump: What the Stats Can Tell You
How to tell whether a player is really in a shooting slump, what part of the shooting pattern changed, and what to review before trying to fix it.
- Player Development
Why Basketball Stats Can Look Worse When a Player Is Improving
Why a player's box-score numbers can dip when role, minutes, competition, or shot profile change — and how to tell context from regression.
- For Parents
Basketball Statistics Explained: A Parent's Complete Guide
What every major box-score stat means in plain English, what it can and cannot tell you, and why trends across games matter more than any single stat line.
- Basketball Stats
What Is a Good Field Goal Percentage in Basketball?
What field goal percentage measures, why one number can mislead, and what parents should consider before calling a percentage good.
- Guides
Basketball Shot Charts Explained: What They Actually Tell You
How to read a basketball shot chart, what location adds to shooting numbers, and how to use it without overreacting to one game.
- Player Development
How to Measure Basketball Player Development
How to tell whether a basketball player is really improving, using role, opportunity, efficiency, decisions, and consistency across games instead of points per game or one good night.
- Basketball Stats
What Is Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%) in Basketball?
What eFG% measures, how it differs from FG%, and how giving made threes extra credit adds scoring-value context.
- Basketball Stats
What Is True Shooting Percentage (TS%) in Basketball?
What TS% measures, how it adds free throws to the efficiency picture, and how it differs from FG% and eFG%.
- Basketball Stats
What Is Plus/Minus in Basketball? What It Means — and What It Doesn’t
How plus/minus records the score change during a player's minutes, and why it is lineup context, not a player grade.
- Basketball Stats
What Is a Good Assist-to-Turnover Ratio in Basketball?
How assist-to-turnover ratio is calculated, how to read the number for your player, and how to improve it.
- Guides
How to Track Basketball Stats During a Game
A practical courtside system for tracking one basketball player accurately without missing the game.
- For Parents
Basketball Stats Every Parent Should Track
A manageable set of basketball stats that helps parents understand a young player's progress without missing the game.