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The Basketball Podcast: EP382 with Charlie Henry on Data, Authentic Coaching and The Journey
In this week’s coaching conversation, Georgia Southern head coach Charlie Henry shares insights on data, authentic coaching and his coaching journey.
Henry enters his third season as the Bice-Peace Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Georgia Southern.
The Eagles improved by eight wins during the 2024-25 season, winning their first-round game in the Sun Belt tournament as the nine seed. The squad once again broke the team record with 313 threes and 912 attempts and finished top five in the following statistics in program history: field goal attempts (3rd, 2063), rebounds (4th, 1234) and held opponents to the sixth-lowest three-point percentage against in team history.
During his first season at the helm, Henry guided the Eagles to an 8-10 record in Sun Belt play and a quarterfinal appearance in the Sun Belt Tournament for the third consecutive season. Under his tutelage, the Eagles set program records in three-pointers (309) and free-throw percentage (.732), finishing the season 27th in the NCAA in three-pointers per game. Also under his watch, guard Tyren Moore made the All-Sun Belt Second Team and led the Sun Belt in points per game during conference play.
Before Georgia Southern, Henry spent four seasons at the University of Alabama and has over 10 years of coaching experience on three major levels of basketball – NBA, G League and Division I power-five schools – including stops at the Chicago Bulls, Windy City Bulls and Iowa State, among others.
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Charlie Henry Quotes:
“You play basketball your whole life. But then you start coaching and I’ve talked to former players as well on this that have played much longer than I have. But you play it growing up and it’s amazing how much you learn after you’re done playing. It’s ‘man, if I’d have known some of this as a player, I might have been a little bit better.'”
“ How much defense are you gonna do in the summer? How much it’s gonna be geared towards just player development and kind of instituting your style of play? Again, the first week we did quite a bit of defense just to give a foundation. And then, obviously once some of the restrictions loosen up, we will spend more time on it.”
“ In the summertime, I want to get up and down, I want play, I want to get better.”
“ It’s just trying to give your guys a chance to be successful and give your team a chance to have success. I feel like being free to try different things is something that I’ve always enjoyed and prided myself on not being married to any one thing.”
“As a coach, you learn so much from the coaches, you go against obviously you learn from, you learn from the coaches you work with, but how about the coaches you prepare against? …But the simplest thing is, when something happens to you that you don’t like, maybe that’s something we need to look at doing.”
“Obviously we want early contact. We want to send everything to the screen from the ball handler’s perspective, and then we just want to stun the ball and obviously get out. And the simplest metric for our guys is we just ask them, ‘did you stop the ball?’ If you stopped the ball, you probably did your job.”
“ I think every two, three weeks, you probably need to sit down with each guy, give ’em feedback, what they see things they’ve done well, obviously, and then, growth areas for ’em.”
“ You’re gonna learn from players the same; hopefully they learn something from you. You’re definitely gonna learn from players. So I don’t think it’s ever wrong to rely on them.”
“You take the work ethic that you learn work at high levels of basketball anywhere you’re gonna be successful.”
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