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Scout any matchup
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Coach-grade scouting reports for players, trainers, and coaches. Ask about any matchup, player, or tendency, and get a structured game plan in seconds.

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Built on 216K+ charted shots and 24K+ tracked matchups. Free to start.
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Grounded in real data

Every read is backed by real numbers, not opinions.

216K+
Shots charted
by zone and matchup
24K+
Matchups tracked
possession by possession
30
NBA teams
fully covered
12
Lenses
on every possession

Built from the same numbers a coaching staff would pull before a game — never opinions, never invented grades.

Public NBA play-by-playRefreshed through the seasonNo fabricated ratings
01 / Try it now, no signup

What a report looks like.

Exactly what lands in your account after signup. Pick a question and read the full breakdown.

HOOPBRIEF OUTPUT
CONFIDENCE: HIGH
PLAYER DEFENSEPICK-AND-ROLL
How should a smaller guard defend a bigger wing?
Guard plan
Start lower. Give ground before contact, not after it.
Positioning cue
Shade baseline. Force the catch one step farther from the rim.
Mistake to avoid
Don't reach across the body, that's where the foul comes from.
Practice focus
Chest-wall containment, vertical contest, recover to box out.
Save it, share it with your team, or take it to practice.Ask your own question →
02 / The method

From question to game plan in three moves.

No film-room hours, no jargon. Ask the way you'd ask a coach and get back a plan you can run this week.

01Ask

Ask in plain language

Type a matchup, player, tendency, or game-prep situation the way you'd say it out loud.

02Read

We read the situation

HoopBrief identifies the player type, action, coverage, and the real decision behind your question.

03Report

Get a structured report

A scouting-style answer with a plan, cues, mistakes to avoid, and what to practice, then save it.

03 / What you get

Questions, turned into usable game plans.

Every answer is structured the same way, so you always know what to do next.

01

Guard better

Positioning cues, screen navigation, foul risks, and what to take away.

02

Attack smarter

Find the advantage: pace, angle, catch zone, screen type, or second action.

03

Study NBA players

Reads, footwork, screen usage, counters, and defensive habits, not highlights.

04

Prepare for matchups

Opponent-specific breakdowns on tendencies, positioning, and what to exploit.

05

Build basketball IQ

Spacing, help, reads, timing, and decision-making explained in plain English.

06

Build a scouting library

Save reports for players, opponents, workouts, or game prep and reuse them.

Scout any player

A data-backed guard plan for every star in the league.

Real shot profiles, tendencies, and the exact coverage to run, for 400+ NBA players and the entire 2026 draft class.

Browse all 400+ players 2026 draft class
The edge most players never train

Box scores tell you what happened.
HoopBrief tells you why, and what to do next.

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Who it's for

Clear enough for a player. Detailed enough for a coach.

Same question box, three ways in: build your own game, develop athletes, or prep a matchup.

01
For players

Train the part of the game no one drills.

How to guard, attack, cut, space, and read the floor faster. The reads that separate players, turned into a plan you can run this week.

Get started as a player
What you'll ask
How do I guard someone bigger?
How do I attack a faster defender?
What does basketball IQ actually mean?
02
For trainers

Turn a workout theme into a teaching report.

Turn weaknesses and matchup questions into structured teaching reports your athletes can actually use between sessions.

Get started as a trainer
What you'll ask
Build a workout around weak-side reads
What should this guard fix first?
A shooting-off-movement progression
03
For coaches

Prep the matchup, explain the tendencies.

Prepare matchups, explain tendencies, and turn complex reads into teaching points your players can understand before tip-off.

Get started as a coach
What you'll ask
Scout this opponent's pick-and-roll
How do we attack their switching?
What are their late-clock tendencies?

Pricing

Less than one private workout.

Start where you are, player-level basketball IQ. Upgrade when your first report earns its keep. All plans monthly, cancel anytime.

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Starter

$9.99/moUSD

For players who want to study the game, reads, matchups, and positioning, more seriously.

  • Ask matchup, player, and positioning questions
  • Study every NBA player’s tendencies
  • Attack plans and guard plans for your games
  • 5 coaching lenses (System, Precision, Development, Matchup Hunter, Analytics)
Start Learning

Billed monthly. Cancel in one click.

Pro

Best value
$99/moUSD

For coaches, trainers, and serious players who want the full lens system, unlimited saves, and deeper scouting views.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Practice plans and player install sheets from any game plan
  • All 12 coaching lenses
  • Matchup-specific Positioning IQ cues
Start Pro

Billed monthly. Cancel in one click.

Enterprise

Organizations
Custom

For programs, agencies, front offices, and multi-seat organizations.

  • Everything in Pro
  • 5+ user seats
  • Organization access scoped during onboarding
  • Shared workspace, export, and API needs assessed before contract
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Replies within one business day.

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The Film Room

Latest scouting breakdowns

Fresh coaching intelligence, matchup prep, and player reads, published for players, trainers, and coaches.

Self-Scout

Basketball Film-Study Notebook: A Seven-Column Template You Can Use Tonight

Turn five ordinary possessions into one useful practice task with a copyable notebook, three filled examples and a ten-minute review.

Read the analysis
Defense

How to Stop Ball Watching and Giving Up Backdoor Cuts

Find the moment you lose your assignment, connect scanning to the possession and rehearse the correction in a live two-on-two progression.

Read the analysis
Basketball IQ

Why You Pick Up Your Dribble Too Early, and What to Practice Instead

Separate an unread helper, a weak-hand problem and a missing outlet before adding more dribbling moves. Includes a five-possession diagnosis.

Read the analysis
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FAQ

Questions, answered.

What players, trainers, and coaches ask before their first report.

HoopBrief is a basketball IQ and matchup-prep platform that turns basketball questions into scouting-style reports. Players, trainers, and coaches can ask about matchups, tendencies, positioning, reads, and player development, and get a structured answer in seconds.

HoopBrief is built for players who want to study the game more seriously, trainers who teach athletes, coaches who prepare matchups, and organizations that need deeper scouting workflows.

No. Playoff coverage is one use case. HoopBrief can also be used year-round for basketball IQ, player development, matchup prep, film-study concepts, and scouting-style learning.

Yes. Starter is designed for players who want to understand reads, positioning, defensive decisions, spacing, and what coaches evaluate.

Generic chatbots can answer basketball questions, but they are not designed around scouting report formats. HoopBrief structures answers around guard plans, attack plans, positioning cues, mistakes to avoid, practice focus, confidence levels, and saved reports.

Synergy and Hudl are primarily film, video, and team-workflow platforms. HoopBrief is a faster intelligence layer for turning basketball questions into clear scouting-style explanations, teaching points, and reports.

Micro-behaviors are small, repeatable habits that affect possessions: opening the hips early, reaching on contact, overhelping from the weak side, dying on second screens, or settling after pressure.

Coaching Lenses are different ways to frame the same basketball question, such as development, defensive, analytics, film-room, precision, system, and advanced scouting views. Starter includes 5 lenses; Pro unlocks all 12.

HoopBrief is designed around structured basketball data, public statistical references, play-by-play context, and basketball-specific report formats. The methodology page explains the sources, limits, and confidence ratings in more detail.

Pro is priced to sit inside a real program's software budget. Hudl runs roughly $1,500 to $4,000 per program per year and Synergy is quote-only in the tens of thousands, so a high school or club staff evaluating tools is working with hundreds of dollars a month, not thousands. Pro delivers all 12 coaching lenses, written Positioning IQ cues, micro-behavior reports, compare and series modes, coach-persona perspectives, and unlimited saved reports at $1,188 a year.

Yes. Enterprise is a sales-led organization plan for programs, agencies, and front offices. Seats, onboarding, support, exports, API needs, and custom workflows are confirmed in writing before a quote; those capabilities are not promised as a self-serve package.

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