TrueHoop: LaGree: Player Evaluation and Motion Capture Technology

I've got a post up at TrueHoop, one unexpectedly inspired by the Soccer Analytics panel at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference:

Yesterday, Brett Hainline wrote about the vast troves of data that motion capture technology will soon bring to analysis of the NBA. The possibilities are both exciting and a little overwhelming. In imagining and understanding those possibilities, one can look to the example of soccer where motion capture technology has existed for more than a decade.