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J.J. Redick wants to play in next preseason game if Clippers will let him

He had been held out of Wednesday night’s game against Toronto because the biometrics technology tracking system the Clippers are using this season determined that Redick’s body needed a break.

His “workload during training camp,” Redick explained before practice, has been on the “sort of high group of guys,” explaining why he wasn’t allowed to play in the back-to-back game.

Redick has always been attentive to his conditioning and even spent time this summer working out using some trendy sports science.

But Redick also admitted he’s somewhat skeptical of all the new technology being used.

“I think collecting data is fine. How you use that data and how you interpret that data is another thing entirely, so I’m always a little cautious as far as what … is being collected,” Redick said. “But I’m a curious person … If there’s anything to sort of gain from the data – whether it’s performance-related or injury prevention – I’m all for it.”

However, Rivers said that the use of biometrics technology is not something his players should be worried about.

“You always have skepticism with everything,” Rivers said. “That’s how we are, or most of us. All of them to a man have used it, have liked the stuff. Some believe in it, some don’t. That’s fine. You can get numbers anyway. I don’t think that’s an issue.”

Brad Turner, LA Times

Clippers' J.J. Redick says biometric program raises interesting questions about use of that data

With the Clippers, the numbers are, at least partially, in charge this season. As part of sweeping organizational changes throughout their basketball operations department, the Clippers added Mark Simpson to be their Director of Performance and Jay Porterfield as a Performance Scientist/Biomedical Analyst.

The data the team is collecting from wearable monitoring devices during practice can be used in injury prevention and specialized training, and those applications have players like Redick intrigued. But, there’s concern the data could be used in ways that might not be in a player’s best interest.

“What Mark (Simpson) has brought here has been really good so far,” Redick said. “Again, I mean, you always want sort of a different set of eyes, whether it’s noticing something about your posture or your gait or anything like that that can be helpful for performance and injury prevention.”

While decisions will be made thanks to a mixture of the data and observation, Rivers wants something to be clear to his team.

“At the end of the day, my job is to make sure that they know what Mark says is the law,” Rivers said. “Sometimes, you don’t have to ask. If they come and tell me Raymond Felton has to sit down, Raymond Felton’s sitting down.”

Dan Woike, OC Register

adithya wrote:The discussion about this on the main forum is as mindnumbing as you'd expect. The Clippers aren't doing anything new or revolutionary here; in fact, they're behind the curve.

A lot of this is just simple risk analysis, they're going to be more cautious with resting guys like Redick in the preseason when the games don't matter. I don't think this will make a huge difference in how often guys sit out in the regular season, look at how teams like the Warriors have rested guys the last two seasons and you'll get a sense of how often the Clippers will do it.

Don't think this is an excuse to try out new lineups or anything, that just happens to be one of the effects.

QRich3 wrote:Where do you get that they're behind the curve there? it's a link saying other teams are doing stuff like this, but I fail to see anything related to the Clippers there? To be honest, it's not a new thing for the Clippers either, I remember the report two seasons ago where they said the Clippers were monitoring hours of sleep and several other things that were supposed to be revolutionary back then too.

I'm all for it, anything that helps you take informed decisions is cool, and with the awful history of our training staff treating injuries, any help will be great.

adithya wrote:

QRich3 wrote:Where do you get that they're behind the curve there? it's a link saying other teams are doing stuff like this, but I fail to see anything related to the Clippers there? To be honest, it's not a new thing for the Clippers either, I remember the report two seasons ago where they said the Clippers were monitoring hours of sleep and several other things that were supposed to be revolutionary back then too.

I'm all for it, anything that helps you take informed decisions is cool, and with the awful history of our training staff treating injuries, any help will be great.

Maybe not behind the curve, but they're not an early adopter here. They're just doing what most of the more forward-thinking teams are doing nowadays (although we should give them credit for actually being one of those teams now, something they weren't two or three years ago).

nickhx2 wrote:i was surprised that the clippers had done some cutting edge stuff since i wouldn't have expected the franchise to show all that much interest with old schoolers like doc at the helm. so i think in that regard they are definitely willing to take shots at some stuff they weren't interested in before. and i'm pretty sure the cryo tanks were installed at the behest of mike dunleavy SR (though i could be wrong about that) when it was still a new thing, and of course i think he was the main pusher of the training facility.

iirc the biometric stuff was being dabbled in last season too, though i do believe other teams like GS were the first to fully implement it. so ya i mean maybe not innovators but they are also trying to keep up.