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Pistons sign deal with sports science firm Kitman Labs
活塞與運動科技公司Kitman Labs簽約
The Detroit Pistons, under the guidance of team president Stan Van Gundy,
leaves no stone unturned. So it shouldn't be a surprise that the Pistons
are the first NBA franchise to sign a deal with Kitman Labs, a sports
technology firm specializing in wearable technology to provide enormous
amounts of actionable, real-time data about athletes.
底特律活塞在球隊總裁大范的帶領下竭盡全力。因此活塞成為第一支跟運動科技
公司Kitman Labs的NBA球隊並不令人驚訝。Kitman Labs專門以穿戴式科技提供
大量關於運動員的實用即時數據。
The partnership was announced via a Kitman Labs news release that read,
in part:
Kitman Labs透過新聞稿宣布了這項合作關係，以下摘錄：
The Kitman System will enable Pistons' coaches and trainers to receive
actionable alerts that can help decrease injury risk and optimize
athletic efficiency. With the additional ability to collect third party
data like GPS trackers, heart-rate monitors and other wearables, the
Pistons will deploy a comprehensive player care strategy that maximizes
performance and player health.
Kitman系統可以讓活塞的教練和訓練員獲取實用的警示，以協助降低受傷風險
以及讓運動員效率極大化。有了像GPS、心跳顯示器或其他穿戴式科技產品那樣
收集第三方數據的能力，活塞將實行一個全面性的球員護理策略使球員表現及
健康都極大化。
"We're collecting a large amount of data, and Kitman Labs gives us a
great system to analyze athletic performance for each individual player
during practices and athletic training sessions," said Jeff Bower,
General Manager for the Detroit Pistons. "We're particularly excited by
the system's ability to measure dynamic movement, and then quickly and
accurately translate that data into actionable insights we can use to
improve upon our ability to monitor player injury risk."
“我們在收集大量的數據，而Kitman Labs給了我們一個很棒的系統，讓我們可以
分析每一個球員在練球和體能訓練時的體能表現，”活塞總經理Jeff Bower說。
”我們對於這個系統衡量動態移動然後快速且準確地將數據轉換為我們可以用來
提升我們監控球員受傷風險表現的能力尤其感到興奮。”
Why is this such a big deal? Because Detroit has made an $80 million
investment in Reggie Jackson and will soon make a $120 million
investment in Andre Drummond. Preventative measures, primarily through
real-time data is viewed as the next major breakthrough in professional
sport management.
為什麼這件事那麼重要？因為活塞投資了八千萬在RJ身上，不久後也會投資
一億二千萬在裝猛身上。預防性測量—主要透過即時數據—被認為是職業運動
管理的下一個重要突破。
As Kitman Labs CEO Stephen Smith said in a Wired UK piece in May about
why athletes get injured, "The majority of these big superstars think
it's down to pure bad luck," says Stephen Smith, CEO of Kitman Labs.
"We're here to say that it's not."
Kitman Labs的執行長Stephen Smith在五月的一篇英國報導中提到為何運動員
會受傷，”絕大多數的球星們認為這純粹是運氣不好”Smith說。”我們是來告訴
大家沒有這回事的。”
The deal is part of a larger trend within the NBA, as detailed in this
excellent Grantland piece by Zach Lowe, which detailed the NBA's desire
to collect an abundance of information from wearable technology.
這個協議代表了現在NBA的一個趨勢：NBA渴望從穿戴式科技收集大量的資訊。
The devices can show, for instance, that a player gets more oomph
pushing off his left leg than his right — evidence of a possible leg
injury. They will show when players can't produce the same level of
power, acceleration, and height on cuts and jumps. Those are typical
signs of fatigue, but there is near-total consensus among medical
experts that fatigued players are more vulnerable to all sorts of
injuries — including muscle tears, catastrophic ligament ruptures,
and pesky soft-tissue injuries that can nag all season. The Warriors
rested Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry last March after data from
Catapult devices (used in practices) and SportVU cameras indicated
their bodies had reached extreme fatigue levels, as Ken Berger of
CBS Sports reported during the Finals.
舉例來說，這些裝置可以是一個球員蹬左腳比蹬右腳得到更多精力—潛在腿部
傷害的證據。它們會在球員們無法在急切或跳躍運動時產生同樣水平的力量、
加速度和高度時提出告知。那些是疲勞的典型徵象，但醫療專家們幾乎一致
同意疲勞的球員更容易為傷勢所困—傷勢包括肌肉拉傷、災難性韌帶斷裂以及
會糾纏球員一整季的軟性組織傷勢。勇士在去年三月時將咖哩和湯神放入了
傷兵名單，就是因為練習時的快速移動裝置以及SportVU攝影機顯示他們已經
達到極度疲勞標準。
Injury prevention is the Holy Grail of sports science and analytics.
It might be the area in which teams are competing most fiercely for
the best people and information. Several teams with respected medical
personnel, including the Hawks, Warriors, Pistons, and Bucks,
nonetheless overhauled their training staffs over the summer in
search of cutting-edge researchers. The Bucks this week became the
first NBA team to use Catapult's ClearSky program, which includes a
special indoor GPS tracking system. Mavs owner Mark Cuban is a major
investor in Catapult, and the Mavs were an early adopter.
傷勢預防是運動科技/分析最重要的項目。它可能是球隊們在網羅最佳人才/
取得知識上競爭最激烈的領域。幾支擁有令人敬重的醫療人員的球隊—包括
老鷹、勇士、活塞以及公鹿—仍然在夏天為了尋找走在科技最尖端的研究人員
而改組了他們的訓練團隊。公鹿在這週成為了第一支使用Catapult的ClearSky
程式—包含一個特殊室內GPS追蹤系統—的NBA球隊。小牛老闆庫班是Catapult的
主要投資人，而小牛是早期的採用者。