This Week on the Basketball Podcast

The Basketball Podcast: EP297 with Henry Domercant on Getting Game Ready

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Windy City Bulls head coach Henry Domercant shares insights on getting game ready and maximizing game performance. After retiring from playing, Domercant transitioned to coaching. He was hired as an assistant coach for the Maine Red Claws in 2017, and then moved to the Windy City Bulls as an assistant coach in 2018. He was promoted to play...

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In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Windy City Bulls head coach Henry Domercant shares insights on getting game ready and maximizing game performance. After retiring from playing, Domercant transitioned to coaching. He was hired as an assistant coach for the Maine Red Claws in 2017, and then moved to the Windy City Bulls as an assistant coach in 2018. He was promoted to play...

The Basketball Podcast: EP297 with Henry Domercant on Getting Game Ready

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Bballbreakdown founder Coach Nick Hauselman joins the Basketball Podcast to share and discuss the Chase Defense. Coach Nick Hauselman, is the founder of Bbballbreakdown, a popular online channel devoted to NBA analysis. He has been breaking down NBA games with slow motion, freeze frames, arrows, and voice-over for over 8 years. Coach Nick ...

The Basketball Podcast: EP294 with Coach Nick Hauselman on the Chase Defense

University of Alabama at Birmingham head coach Andy Kennedy joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on being the best version of self, changing defenses and habits. Andy Kennedy began his coaching career as an assistant for South Alabama during the 1994–95 season. Since then, he has also served as an assistant coach at UAB from 1996 to 2001 and Cincinnati from 2001 to 2005. He was named...

The Basketball Podcast: EP293 with Andy Kennedy on Best Version of Self

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Nova Southeastern Head Coach Jim Crutchfield shares insights from his undefeated national championship team. The 2022-23 was storybook from start to finish for the Sharks and Crutchfield, as Nova Southeastern became the sixth team in NCAA Division II history to finish as undefeated national champions. Crutchfield's Sharks were dominant through...

The Basketball Podcast: EP291 with Jim Crutchfield Inside the Mind

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Old Dominion head coach DeLisha Milton-Jones joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on keeping it real, drop coverage and relatability. DeLisha Milton-Jones is a 2022 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. She had a decorated professional career in the WNBA and overseas. She was a 2× WNBA champio...

The Basketball Podcast: EP282 with DeLisha Milton-Jones on Drop Coverage

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, learn about the matchup based offensive and defensive coaching philosophy of Carleton head coach Dave Smart. Smart has architected one of the most dominant dynasties in collegiate sport history. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario from 1999 to 2019, where he led the Ravens to thirteen of the te...

The Basketball Podcast: EP51 Dave Smart Part 2 on Competitive Philosophy

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, learn the competitive coaching philosophy of Carleton head coach Dave Smart. Smart has architected one of the most dominant dynasties in collegiate sport history. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario from 1999 to 2019, where he led the Ravens to thirteen of the team's fourteen U Sports national ...

The Basketball Podcast: EP50 Dave Smart Part 1 on Matchup Based Offense and Defense

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, European professional coach Pascal Meurs join the podcast to discuss moving away from preprogrammed drills and applying analytics in simple ways. Meurs is a professional basketball coach with experience at the highest level in Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Luxembourg. Most recently Meurs was the Head Coach of T71 Dudelange, one of...

The Basketball Podcast: EP49 Pascal Meurs on Preprogrammed Drills

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, one of the most innovative minds in basketball brings his approach and philosophy to the basketball podcast as Vance Walberg shares some ideas on the dribble drive offense. Vance Walberg's Dribble Drive system has evolved into an offensive attack adopted, and adapted, with thousand of coaches of all levels all over the world. Walberg has...

The Basketball Podcast: EP48 Vance Walberg on the Dribble Drive

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Brendan Suhr joins the podcast to discuss coaching development. Coach Brendan Suhr is viewed as one of the most respected figures in basketball with nearly 30 years as a coach and executive in the NBA and 13 seasons as a coach at the collegiate level. Suhr has been a part of some of the most historical basketball teams of all time while ...

The Basketball Podcast: EP47 Brendan Suhr on Coaching Development

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Basketball Champions League head coach Igor Miličić joins the podcast to discuss creative coaching. Coach Miličić is head coach of Polish League team Anwil Włocławek. His team competes with "underdog tactics" against much higher budgeted teams. On the podcast, he explains ideas to give your team the best chance to succeed. Miličić has co...

The Basketball Podcast: EP46 Igor Miličić on Underdog Tactics

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Aaron Fearne, current Charlotte 49ers assistant coach, and former professional head coach, joins the podcast to discuss sending five players to the offensive boards in his "Tagging Up" offensive rebounding system. The podcast covers team and individual offensive rebounding tactics and techniques. Defensive transition is discussed in the context...

The Basketball Podcast: EP45 Aaron Fearne on Tagging Up

In this week's basketball coaching conversation, head coach of the Erie BayHawks Ryan Pannone joins the podcast to discuss offensive rebounding, the pick and roll game and so much more. Panone shares his knowledge gained from having coached all over the world including time in Israel, Slovakia, the United States, China and Germany. In the 2016-17 campaign, Pannone served as assistant coach f...

The Basketball Podcast: EP44 Ryan Pannone on Advanced Concepts

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Finnish basketball coach Hanno Möttölä joins the podcast to share ideas to help your program define its playing style. Möttölä shares ideas from his playing and coaching career, as a leading figure in Finnish basketball, to help us to better understand how to run a basketball program. Möttölä has been with the Helsinki Basketball Academy...

The Basketball Podcast: EP43 Hanno Möttölä on Playing Style

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, South Alabama head women's basketball coach Terry Fowler joins the podcast to discuss changing the way you practice and play. Coach Fowler has changed from a slower paced offense, to a faster higher possession offense. He has also moved from a more traditional practice style to a games based approach to coaching. Fowler will enter his 20...

The Basketball Podcast: EP42 Terry Fowler on Changing the Way You Practice

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Great Britain Under 18 National Head Coach, and current Reading Rockets NBL D1 Head Coach, Alan Keane joins the podcast to help us rethink some traditional coaching ideas. Ideas like the pre-game, half-time, timeout interactions and interventions coaches traditionally use are discussed, along with methods for better empowering players in the co...

The Basketball Podcast: EP41 Alan Keane on Rethinking Traditional Ideas

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, former Lincoln Memorial head coach, and current Indiana State head coach, Josh Schertz joins the Basketball Podcast, to discuss offensive play calling and things that lead to success. Schertz, a three-time National Coach of the Year and six-time South Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year, has led LMU to a remarkable 232-32 record (87.9 percent...

The Basketball Podcast: EP40 Josh Schertz on Offensive Play Calling

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, basketball consultant and mentor, Randy Brown, joins the podcast to talk about the 12 Anchors for Coaching Clarity, Effectiveness, and Success. Randy is a former D1 Assistant Coach at Iowa State and Arizona. His 18 years in college basketball highlights a successful 23-year career. Mentored by Basketball Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson at ...

The Basketball Podcast: EP39 Randy Brown on Coaching Clarity

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Florida Gulf Coast University head coach Michael Fly joins the podcast to discuss being an assistant coach who becomes the head coach. Fly who has spent the previous seven years as an assistant coach on the Eagles’ staff, was promoted to head coach of the FGCU men’s basketball program this spring. He gives great advice for being the best assist...

The Basketball Podcast: EP38 Michael Fly on Assistant to Head Coach

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, former NBA player Beno Udrih joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss transitioning from playing to coaching. Udrih started his coaching career in the NBA G League as an assistant coach with the Westchester Knicks during the 2019-20 season. He received a call-up to the New Orleans Pelicans, where he served as an assistant coach for two seasons ...

The Basketball Podcast: EP37 Beno Udrih on Transitioning to Coaching

In this week's coaching conversation, Birmingham Squadron NBA G-League associate head coach TJ Saint joins the podcast to discuss practice, video and analytics in modern basketball. Saint has spent time as a video coordinator, player development coach, director of basketball operations with the Georgia Bulldogs, Detroit Pistons, Butler Bulldogs, Belmont Bruins and Pure Sweat. He was named G...

The Basketball Podcast: EP36 TJ Saint on Analytics and Video

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation professional basketball skills trainer Joerik Michiels joins the podcast. Michiels, and Chris Oliver, have a conversation about progressive and modern basketball training methods. Michiels is from Belgium, and is the owner of Elite Athletes and Elite Academy. In a progressive way he works on all of the basketball skill and movement skill element...

The Basketball Podcast: EP35 Joerik Michiels

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation George Washington assistant coach joins the basketball podcast to have a focused conversation on rebounding.  Zak Boisvert joined the GW men's basketball staff as an assistant coach in May 2022. In his first year in Foggy Bottom, Boisvert was responsible for opponent's scouting. He helped lead the Buff & Blue to their most overall wi...

The Basketball Podcast: EP34 Zak Boisvert on Rebounding

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, former college head coach Paul Hewitt joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss the basketball coaching profession. Hewitt is currently a scout for the Los Angeles Clippers. He is best known as a college basketball coach. He has been the head coach at Georgia Tech, George Mason and Siena University. His head coaching career started at Siena w...

The Basketball Podcast: EP33 Paul Hewitt on the Coaching Profession

In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, NBA head coach Stan Van Gundy joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss basketball philosophy and tactics. Before becoming the head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans, Stan Van Gundy previously served as the head coach and president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2014 to 2018. Fr...

The Basketball Podcast: EP32 Stan Van Gundy on Philosophy and Tactics