About SidelineOS

SidelineOS is the first basketball intelligence platform built for the player.

For a generation, basketball has modernized in front of our eyes. Pace and space rewrote the floor. Switch-everything rewrote the defense. The mid-range died, the corner three was born, and the screening big became a passing hub. The game has never been more sophisticated, and the players who understand its layers separate themselves from the ones who don’t.

The teaching has not kept up. The serious basketball platforms — Hudl, Synergy, FastDraw — were built for franchises and coaching staffs. The consumer tier of basketball intelligence has never existed. Players, fans, and serious learners have been left with static diagrams, PDF playbooks, and YouTube clips for twenty years.

SidelineOS is the rebuild. Animated plays narrated in real time. Every action explained from every angle. Every read traced to every defensive trigger. A teaching system finally built for the people who want to understand the game.

The diagram, alive.

Team

Tai Strickland

Founder

Founder of SidelineOS. Six years of Division I basketball at Wisconsin, Temple, and LIU, followed by professional play in Cyprus. Finance degree from Temple and graduate work in data analytics and strategic business intelligence. Built SidelineOS solo.

Rod Strickland

Advisor

Advisor to SidelineOS. Seventeen-year NBA veteran and current head men’s basketball coach at Long Island University. Brings decades of experience at the highest levels of the game to SidelineOS’s strategic direction.

Blake Redmond

Business Development & Partnerships

Leads business development and partnerships at SidelineOS. Master’s in Sports Product Management from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor’s in Merchandising, Apparel, and Textiles from the University of Kentucky — a background at the intersection of sports, product, and brand.