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1. Physics is not obviously useful for basketball. Someone who wants to apply physics to the game has to continuously and strenuously justify what they are doing.
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2. The usual college-level kinematics (flight paths of the ball, etc) is useful in principle. But this level of optimization is more or less already done naturally by players, and will have very limited impact.
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3. Players/coaches are right to resist when math nerds tell them how to do things better. All but the most cautious theorizing is likely to do more harm than good.
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