Ask a basketball question, a matchup, player, tendency, or read, and get a structured, coach-grade scouting report. No film-room hours required.
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Exactly what lands in your account after signup. Pick a question and read the full breakdown.
Type a matchup, player, tendency, or game-prep situation the way you'd say it out loud.
HoopBrief identifies the player type, action, coverage, and the real decision behind your question.
A scouting-style answer with a plan, cues, mistakes to avoid, and what to practice, then save it.
Positioning cues, screen navigation, foul risks, and what to take away.
Find the advantage: pace, angle, catch zone, screen type, or second action.
Reads, footwork, screen usage, counters, and defensive habits, not highlights.
Opponent-specific breakdowns on tendencies, positioning, and what to exploit.
Spacing, help, reads, timing, and decision-making explained in plain English.
Save reports for players, opponents, workouts, or game prep and reuse them.
Scout any player
Real shot profiles, tendencies, and the exact coverage to run, for 180+ NBA players and the entire 2026 draft class.
Learn how to guard, attack, cut, space, and read the floor faster, the part of basketball most players never actually train.
Start free as a player →Turn weaknesses and matchup questions into structured teaching reports your athletes can actually use between sessions.
Start free as a trainer →Prepare matchups, explain tendencies, and turn complex reads into teaching points your players can understand.
Start free as a coach →I used to burn two hours of film to decode one defender. Now I get the read in five minutes and spend the rest actually training.
“I prep matchup-specific workouts for 14 athletes a week. What took my whole Sunday now takes 20 minutes per player.”
“We walked into sectionals knowing their initiator's counters cold. My guards had the plan before warmups.”
Pricing
Start where you are, player-level basketball IQ. Upgrade when your first report earns its keep. All plans monthly, cancel anytime.
For trainers, pro players, and staff who need deeper reports, unlimited saves, and advanced scouting views.
For players who want to study the game, reads, matchups, and positioning, more seriously.
For programs, agencies, front offices, and multi-seat organizations.
The Film Room
Fresh coaching intelligence, matchup prep, and player reads, published for players, trainers, and coaches.
Most coaches watch film without a system, so it eats time and changes nothing. Here is a repeatable weekly film-study workflow that fits a real schedule and actually improves the team.
ReadNBA scouts are not grading the box score. Here are the skills that actually get evaluated, from decision speed to defensive versatility, and why they matter more than scoring.
ReadAI has not replaced the scout. It has moved the bottleneck. The hours that used to go into tagging and charting now go into deciding. Here is what actually changed in scouting in 2026, and what did not.
ReadHoopBrief 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 4 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 against staff-level scouting support, not consumer apps. A part-time video coordinator or analyst costs several thousand dollars a month. Pro delivers all 12 coaching lenses, positioning diagrams, micro-behavior reports, and unlimited saved reports for a fraction of that.
Yes. Enterprise is for programs, agencies, front offices, and multi-seat organizations that need shared workspaces, custom reports, API access, or onboarding.
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