The Chiba Jets Funabashi don't just look at the numbers that appear on the stat sheet, because the game of basketball is a team sport and the collective effort of the players gives teams a better chance to win games.

Jets head coach Atsushi Ono insists that if your staff puts too much emphasis on stats, the players might pursue those figures instead of aiming to win.

"You play to win," Ono said during a summer lecture of the Japan Society for Basketball Studies, which was established in 2014 to study the game from all angles and promote it, at the Shin-Matsudo campus of Ryutsu Keizai University in Chiba Prefecture on Sunday.