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Two clusterings to capture basketball players’ shooting tendencies using tracking data: clustering of shooting styles and the shots themselves Cover

Two clusterings to capture basketball players’ shooting tendencies using tracking data: clustering of shooting styles and the shots themselves

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|Mar 2025

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Language: English
Page range: 35 - 55
Published on: Mar 2, 2025
Published by: International Association of Computer Science in Sport
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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