The Basketball Podcast: EP352 with Joe Raso on Coaching Passion, Strategy and Family Values

Joe Raso Quotes:

“And there’s so many ways to stay in this game. And I’ve just found outside of coaching that I’ve been able to expand different ways of staying in it. The game has been good to us. You got to give back to it.”

“ When you’re a young coach, surround yourself with older people. When you’re an older coach, surround yourself with younger people. And when you’re in between, have both. Have somebody who can see the whole picture and then somebody who can challenge you.”

“ I learned under great guys and I and I think that’s the key part. Go find somebody that you want to learn and study under. It’s not about wins and losses, it’s about who’s the best. Teacher and then, and then you can, I think it really improves it and don’t be scared to move, try other coaches, use other things because ultimately when it does come down to you building your program, you got to take the best from all these areas and be yourself.”

“ So knowing the rules is part of the responsibility. Teaching the rules to your players is part of the responsibility that you have. And, making sure that they understand it and. And that’s also something that we, I thought if we knew the rules better than other teams do, then that’s an advantage that we walk into the gym with because there are situations on time and score that I want to have everybody on the same page.”

“I thought evaluating practice with the coaches. We probably spent more, some of those conversations lasted longer than practice. And players knew that we were sitting down every day, evaluating practice and evaluating talent, people were moving up and down on the ladder every day because after practice, we’d sit around sometimes we’d say, Okay, you know what went wrong?Is that drill any good that we should take that up when we’re doing this?”

“If you can control the ball, you can control defense pressure on the basketball is where it all over defense starts. That hasn’t changed no matter where, what concept you’re playing. But if you can pressure the ball, then you’re, and control the ball, sometimes it was pressuring the ball, but don’t control it. You got to control the ball. And if you can do that, then you can build your defense.”

“Kids in class will talk all day. You get them on the court, they don’t want to talk because they’re not confident that they know the right thing. But once you start talking, the other team thinks, ‘Holy smokes, you guys know your stuff’.”

“And I think that would be the advice I’d give any parent… Don’t care about the wins and losses. Just worry about who’s coached your kid and how good they are as coaches… Don’t fall in love with the program that’s going to travel and do all these things. Fall in love with the coach who’s going to make a difference in, in your, son or daughter’s career as players.”

Joe Raso Breakdown:

Joe Raso Selected Links from the Podcast:

Dave Smart
Stan van Gundy
Quin Snyder
Steve Nash
Jay Triano
Brendan Malone
Mike Malone
Barry Phillips
Dave Arsenault