Explainable AI Approach to Analyzing and Improving Basketball Shooting Ability

AI models act as “black boxes,” with decision processes that aren’t visible. This paper presents an explainable AI (XAI) method for a model predicting basketball shot success or failure. The model, trained on body posture sequences using LSTM, identifies what minimal posture adjustments can turn a failed shot into a success through a new technique called Input Gradient Descent . The system provides players with clear visual and verbal feedback, offering practical, transparent guidance to improve performance. This approach could even be generalized to LLMs.