Basketball Immersion Clinics

BASKETBALL IMMERSION:
TWO DAY COACHING ACADEMY

WHY ATTEND A BASKETBALL IMMERSION COACHING ACADEMY?

Many coaches love the ideas we share.

Many also explain they don’t have enough depth of understanding to apply many of the ideas.

This is your chance to immerse yourself in the evidence-based ideas that we have coached with for over 20 years. Learn player development, and team development concepts, that focus on game based skill and decision-making that can be incorporated into each team’s overall philosophy.

Our Coaching Academy features immersive teaching from Basketball Immersion, and a number of guest coaches. These sessions will compliment, add to, and heighten your immersive learning experience.

Wondering what types of topics are taught? Here is a sample: Over 4 sessions with Chris Oliver, you will learn how to teach:

Basketball decision training shooting, and other skill based player development strategies.
Advantage and disadvantage drills to teach offensive and defensive decision-making.
Using small-sided games and a games approach to coaching basketball.
Using offense vs. defense, rather than on air drills.
Beyond blocked drills to ensure player satisfaction and enjoyment.

Our academy mission is simple:
Share the game and help you become a better coach.

Open

We share the same tactics, techniques and philosophies we’ve presented to the youth, high school, college and NBA teams.

Innovative

You learn the latest evidence-based ideas and applications behind BDT shooting, games approach to coaching, small-sided games and other skill acquisition tactics.

Interactive

We challenge and stimulate your thinking so you leave with the tools to keep improving, but also the answers to your questions.

LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT A BASKETBALL IMMERSION ACADEMY CAN DO TO STIMULATE YOUR COACHING

Basketball Immersion has stimulated coaching and player development around the world. The benefits of a Basketball Immersion one day coaching academy will positively impact your players and coaching for years to come.

Coach Chris Oliver has spent over 20 years coaching at the collegiate level, has coached internationally, and been a consultant for NBA, NCAA and Sport Organizations around the world. He has shared his ideas at coaching clinics including Coach U, Rising Coaches, Ohio and Iowa Basketball Coaches Association, the Florida Clinic and more. He has been developing skill acquisition and evidence based decision training methods. He has coached thousands of games and practices where he has experimented and perfected Basketball Decision Training (BDT™) and has evolved a Games Approach to coaching.

These ideas have shaped his training and coaching concepts, which have allowed him to help many coaches and players improve through the application of game-like drills and tactics that transfer better into games.

Amazing praise from some coaching at all levels of basketball...

“What Coach Chris Oliver and Basketball Immersion offers is a rare commodity - a paradigm shifting innovation that will stimulate your thought and transform your coaching, but is also solidly founded in scientific research. If you’re wishing to increase the level of challenge in your individual and team trainings, and see what you teach be applied in game, then you need to become intimately familiar with Coach Oliver’s methods so you can implement them into your coaching practice immediately.”

- Zico Coronel, Head Coach, Wellington Saints, New Zealand NBL

“One of the best experiences in my coaching career was learning directly from Coach Oliver in an immersive experience. I learned invaluable lessons about decision-training, games approach to coaching, preparation, planning, and so much more.”

- Koko Heru, Coach BTN CLS Knights Indonesia

"Whether I'm looking for a new mixed drill, small-sided game, decision-making drill or offensive concept, Coach Oliver always has exactly what I'm looking for to improve my practices which translates to success in games."

- Lucas Widger, Coach Jamestown (PA) High School

WHO USES BASKETBALL IMMERSION?

YOUTH, COLLEGIATE AND PRO TEAMS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD USE OUR SERVICES

MIAMI HEAT

U OF MIAMI

U OF BUFFALO

Each of these organizations and teams are members of Basketball Immersion. They have all used concepts learned from Basketball Immersion. Player development, and team development concepts, that focus on game based skill and decision-making have been incorporated into each team’s overall philosophy.

Additional users of Basketball Immersion include professional, WNBA, NBA, collegiate, high school and youth development coaches from all around the world.

HANDS ON AND INTERACTIVE

Come dressed to participate. More than just lectures, this one day academy will be an interactive workshop that will improve your ability to advance your coaching.

Since you learn best by doing active participation, questioning and answering, and debrief sessions will all help you better retain the topics that will be shared.

Topics Include:

Games Approach to Coaching
Basketball Decision Training
Zero Seconds Skills Training
Transfer to Competition
Small Sided Games
Time-on-Task

Random and Variable Practice
Feedback Delivery Patterns
Messy Learning
Athlete Satisfaction and Engagement
Optimal and Appropriate Challenge
Rethinking Traditional Coaching Ideas

You will stimulate your coaching but don’t just take our word for it . . .

“I’m constantly checking the Basketball Immersion website and social media accounts for fresh ideas I can implement with my team. It’s an invaluable resource for me throughout the year.“

- Nate Oats, Head Coach, University of Alabama

“You inspire some thought almost every single day . . really excited to keep learning from you.”

- Dusty May, Head Coach Men’s Basketball, Florida Atlantic University

“Chris Oliver is a star in the coaching profession . . [his] unique style and ability to communicate is uncanny. The drills he uses are the BEST I’ve seen on the subject in the last 25 years.”

- Brendan Suhr, 2-time NBA champion Detroit Pistons assistant coach, President/Founder Coaching U

“I rave about you and what you’ve done . . In an era where guys kind of don’t share anymore, I love everything you’re doing.”

- Bill Wuczynski, NCAA D1 College Coach

“I admire the way you pursue learning . . you have great things to share.”

- Amanda Butler, Head Coach Women’s Basketball, Clemson University

“Chris is a divergent thinker that wants to help coaches grow. It’s a very unique set of characteristics.”

- Josh Schertz, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Indiana State University

GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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HOW DO YOU…
WHAT IF WE DID…
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ACADEMY LOCATIONS, HOURS AND COSTS

Attend a Basketball Immersion Two Day Coaching Academy.

Delaware BIAcademy

Date: Wednesday, August 24 - Thursday, August 25
Location: Cape Henlopen High School, 1250 Kings Highway, Lewes, Delaware
Times: Wednesday 3:00 - 9:00 PM | Thursday 9:00-4:00 PM
Cost: $75 for Members of Basketball Immersion and $150 for Non-Members

Ottawa BIAcademy

Date: Friday, August 26 - Saturday, August 27
Location: Ecole Secondaire Publique Louis-Riel, 1655 Bearbrook Road, Ottawa, Ontario
Times: Friday 3:00 - 9:00 PM | Saturday 9:00-4:00 PM
Cost: $75 for Members of Basketball Immersion and $150 for Non-Members

Tentative Schedule

Day 1 Schedule
3:00-4:30 - #1 TBA
4:30-6:00 - #2 TBA
6:00-7:30 - #3 TBA
7:30-9:00 - #4 TBA

Day 2 Schedule
9:00-10:00 - Topic #1
10:00-11:00 - Topic #2
11:00-12:00 - Topic #2
12:00-12:30 - Lunch (Provided)
12:30-1:30 - Topic #3
1:30-2:30 - Topic #2
2:30-3:30 - Topic #4
3:30-4:00 - Wrap Up

INVEST IN YOUR LEARNING

What is Basketball Immersion Coaching Academy?

This Coaching Academy is designed to maximize your learning. You will leave the Coaching Academy with pages upon pages of actionable ideas that you can apply when you get back to your team.

The days will be a combination of information provided by Coach Oliver and select guest speakers in short, tactical teaching sessions leaving plenty of time for Q&A. The focus will be on actionable strategies geared for coaching success at all levels.

There will be opportunities for each attendee to discuss problems and strategies specifically about their team. Group activities and breakout sessions will allow for a great experience and time to network as well.

Why Should You Attend?

Whether it’s a brand new ideas or a makeover of a drill you use, you’ll walk away with new ideas to help you improve your approach to coaching.

Get tangible takeaways intended to give you an edge that you can implement right away.

Be able to ask questions, listen to practical coaching advice, and interact with coaching peers who share similar approach to coaching basketball.

Break away from your routine to immerse in innovative coaching ideas can help to spark new ideas, approaches, and provide new perspectives.

The learning doesn’t end when the clinic is over—take the conversations and content back to your colleagues, and continue to interact with your coaching peers as you build your network of like-minded coaches.

What is the Investment to Attend the Clinic?

The clinic cost is $75 for members and $150 for non-members.

This is an investment in yourself, your career and the future of your athletes. When you purchase clinic access and attend, you’re investing in your own personal growth.

What Is Covered?

Basketball Decision Training (mind training), Zero Seconds (skills training), small-sided games, and a games approach to coaching basketball will all be covered to provide each coach with a better understanding of what to coach, and how to coach.

Skill acquisition concepts including random practice, contextual interference, feedback, patterns of delivery, ideas to heighten mental effort, and others will be covered, along with ideas to maximize time-on-task and active learning time in practice.

Why You Should Get a Basketball Immersion Membership?

We want to impact your coaching, not just for the days at the clinic. For a player, learning requires a permanent change in behavior, not just a one stop performance. The same applies to you as a coach. We want you to learn. Spending time with the material before, during, and after the clinic will progress your coaching more than any one day you spend with us.

The Basketball Immersion Membership will provide you with the resources, video and course based learning and access to the private discussion forums to continue to learn, and share, as you improve your players, and coaching.

What To Expect!

Come dressed to participate (if you are able to). We will not being using players to demonstrate as the focus is on hands-on learning. More than just lectures, this one day academy will be an interactive workshop that will improve your ability to advance your coaching.

Since you learn best by doing active participation, questioning and answering, and debrief sessions will all help you better retain the topics that will be shared.

Lunch will be provided. Otherwise, bring what you would require for a day of learning.

How to attend a BIAcademy?

Select the event you want to attend below and click the button to register.

August 24-25, 2022 - Lewes, Delaware

Members $75 USD

Non-members $150 USD

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August 26-27, 2022 - Ottawa, Ontario

Members $75 USD

Non-members $150 USD

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attend the clinic?
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