Hey,
I am french and I was lucky to see Wembanyama playing when he was still in France (Mets92). I obviously felt in love with him and i therefore decided to follow NBA Spurs this year - the struggle is i love watching a sport once I understand better the standard strategies and standard roles players need to adopt. I am not interested at all (yet) in learning NBA history, legendary feuds or best teams/players. I just want to learn how to watch a game using my brain.
Do you have a book or a series of youtube video to introduce me to this ? Ideally, after consuming this i have a basic understanding of basketball offence/defense strategy and I can understand the role/position of a player when watching a game.
I tried exploring NBA/Basketball for Beginners but could not find wat i was looking for : Either it was talking about a particular season or about a list of stats and details about particular players.
Hoopvision68 is probably the best channel for understanding fundamental philosophies.
Much of his analysis has college basketball as the starting point, but that should hinder noone from understanding every level of basketball better by watching the channel. The whole series of videos called Deep X’s and O’s Dives is excellent. Also this video, which isn’t a part of the series, is a good starting point as well.
Half court hoops is good as well, although nowadays he doesn’t post as much content as he used to.
At any rate OP, it takes A LOT of film time to start noticing this things in real time. I don’t think any of us casual fans are able to do that.