Basketball strategy is taught the same way it was in 1985.
Static Tools
The industry standard produces flat diagrams. No synchronized teaching, no narration, no defensive context. Built 20 years ago.
Fragmented Knowledge
Search 'how to run a pick and roll' and you get scattered articles, YouTube clips of varying quality, and Wikipedia. No single source of truth exists.
No Decision Training
Nobody teaches basketball as a sequence of reads against live defense. Players memorize patterns but never learn WHY a read works against a specific coverage.
The coach’s whiteboard, brought to life.
Animated Court
Plays draw themselves — offense and defense move in real time.
Synced Narration
Coaching text updates as the animation advances.
Player Perspectives
Click any player — narration shifts to their role.
Decision Trees
Choose your read — the play branches based on your decision.
A structured basketball knowledge base.
Every dribble, pass, shot, cut, screen, and defensive movement — catalogued with coaching notes, difficulty levels, and parent-child hierarchy.
Connections between actions: progressions, counters, prerequisites, sequences. The actions don’t just exist — they’re connected into a reasoning graph.
166 actions, 1,017 relationships, coverage breakdowns, coaching text.
Powers synchronized coaching narration and interactive defensive coverage analysis.
Every authored play becomes structured training data for a basketball reasoning model built on Google Cloud.
The content is the product. The product generates structured data. The data drives intelligence that creates better content.
What’s inside
Actions
ActiveThe atomic building blocks. Ball screens, handoffs, down screens, and more.
Reads
ActiveWhat the defense gives you and how to exploit it.
Concepts
Coming soonThe principles that make offenses work.
Spacing
Coming soonWhy positioning creates opportunities.
Plays
Coming soonFull 5-man sets with every player’s role.
Drills
Coming soonPractice what you’ve learned.
No one else teaches this way.
| Feature | FastDraw (Hudl) | Synergy Sports | YouTube Coaches | SidelineOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interactive Animation | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ |
| Synchronized Narration | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ |
| Per-Player Perspective | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ |
| Defensive Context | ✖ | Stats only | Varies | ✓ |
| Decision Tree Learning | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ |
| Structured Knowledge Base | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ |
FastDraw diagrams but doesn’t teach. Synergy analyzes but doesn’t educate. YouTube teaches but passively. SidelineOS is the first product that combines all three.
Choose your experience
I Play Basketball
- Beginner and amateur concepts
- Full play animations
- Basic coaching instruction
- Interactive decision tree experience
I’m a Basketball Player
- Everything in Free, plus:
- College and pro-level concepts
- Per-player perspective switching
- Full narration with coaching detail
- Complete metadata breakdowns