ROUND TABLE 94 – WHAT’S AN IDEA YOU PICKED UP OUTSIDE OF BASKETBALL THAT HAS INFLUENCED THE WAY YOU COACH? – EPISODE 1311
Welcome to the 94th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month.
October’s Round Table question is: What’s an idea you picked up outside of basketball that has influenced the way you coach?
Our Coaching Lineup this month:
- Jerry Buckley – Bishop Kenny (FL) High School
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High School
- Don Showalter – USA Basketball
- John Shulman – University of Central Arkansas
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TRANSCRIPT FOR ROUND TABLE 94 – WHAT’S AN IDEA YOU PICKED UP OUTSIDE OF BASKETBALL THAT HAS INFLUENCED THE WAY YOU COACH? – EPISODE 1311
[00:00:00] Narrator: The Hoop Heads Podcast is brought to you by Head Start Basketball.
[00:00:21] Mike Klinzing: Hello and welcome to the 94th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month.
October’s Round Table question is: What’s an idea you picked up outside of basketball that has influenced the way you coach?
Our Coaching Lineup this month includes:
Jerry Buckley – Bishop Kenny (FL) High School
Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High School
Don Showalter – USA Basketball
John Shulman – University of Central Arkansas
Please enjoy this Round Table episode of the Hoop Heads Podcast and once you’re finished listening please give the show a five star rating and review after you subscribe on your favorite podcast app.
Be sure to follow us on twitter and Instagram @hoopheadspod for the latest updates on episodes, guests, and events from the Hoop Heads Pod.
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Let’s hear from our panel about an idea they picked up outside of basketball that has influenced the way they coach.
Jerry Buckley, Bishop Kenny High School, Jacksonville, Florida
[00:02:19] Jerry Buckley: This is Jerry Buckley answering this month’s question about something I picked up outside of basketball. One thing I thought was pretty cool and just very simple, but when my son was playing soccer, probably when he was eight or nine years old, at the end of every practice when the team would huddle, after they broke it down, they would– every kid would shake every other kid’s hand on the team, including the coaches.
And so we’ve taken that, we adapted a little bit, and now when we break it down at the end of practice, everyone fist bumps each other. And whether that’s just in a regular varsity practice with about twelve guys or in the weight room in the preseason with forty to forty-five guys, freshmen through seniors, I think it’s always a good way to just acknowledge everyone so they all feel valued and they interact with each other.
Again, in high school, sometimes that’s a pretty big age gap from fourteen to eighteen, so they get to interact with the older kids as a younger guy, all those different things. So I always thought that was pretty cool, again, to feel valued and respected as a member of the program and just something we adapted that I think has gone well for us.
[00:03:23] Mike Klinzing: Bob Krizancic, Mentor High School, Mentor, Ohio
[00:03:30] Bob Krizancic: It’s Coach K, Mentor High School. Oh, in ’90s, when I was coaching Girard High School in the Youngstown Warren area, Coach Jim Tressel was at Youngstown State University winning national titles at that level. I got to meet him through mutual friends and actually became very good friends. Coach Tressel was, you could say, obsessed with the turnover ratio.
He believed that if he won the turnover ratio in football, he would win 95% of the games, and I became, we will say, obsessed with turnovers. And I really believe if you could take care of the basketball and win that battle by five to seven to 10, you are going to win the vast majority of the games, which we’ve done. Best of luck.
[00:04:15] Mike Klinzing:Don Showalter, USA Basketball
[00:04:20] Don Showalter: Don Showalter here from USA Basketball. And one of the things that is outside of basketball that influenced my coaching is watching CEOs of big corporations and how they le– attack leadership. In other words what is their leadership philosophy? What is their– how do they implement good leadership within their corporation?
And after looking at and studying a lot of these CEOs it’s very obvious that the great leaders are ones who listen intently to their constituents and their workers. And I think that’s a big carryover to basketball coaching. Being a good leader involves listening to your players and then taking action from there.
Thank you.
[00:05:20] Mike Klinzing: John Shulman from the University of Central Arkansas
[00:05:26] John Shulman: Yes, this is John Shulman, head basketball coach at the University of Central Arkansas, and this month’s question is: what’s an idea you’ve picked up outside of basketball that has influenced the way you coach? I think if you’ll really put your phone down and watch other coaches in other sports, you can learn.
I’m a big Ted Lasso fan. I learn off of Ted Lasso. And I would say that would be outside of basketball. So I would say you start right now is I guess Cignetti, I don’t even know how to say his name, the head football coach at IU, who went to IU, won a national championship, and his big thing that I learned from him is make sure you have your best players ready to roll at game time, and maybe, just maybe with them feeling good going into a game is a good idea.
I’m an old school guy, and I’m an old guy. So back in the day you would just, have knock-down, drag-out practices every day, and you’d be exhausted for the game and that was just part of it, and I’m not sure that’s a great idea. He wants his team well-rested and healthy and feeling good at game time.
So he doesn’t practice a ton of hitting and a ton of being on a field during the season. So I, last year we had a great run in the ASUN and ended up winning the regular season tie with Austin Peay, but we got the tiebreaker and we were the number one seed going to the tournament. We didn’t go super hard.
They knew what we wanted. We stayed in shape, we stayed healthy, and we made sure that we were feeling good at game time. It’s okay to rest legs. It’s okay to go for an hour a day during the season instead of two hours and bust them. If you’re going to bust them quick and get out of there. So I just think probably more rest is better than killing them, as long as they know what they’re doing.
On Ted Lasso, I can’t even tell you how much I’ve gotten from Ted Lasso, but the, the biggest thing probably is be curious, not judgmental. Why is the kid struggling? Find out why the kid’s struggling. I am very quick to judge my first 30 years in this business and been a little slower to judge lately.
I just think that I think if we just take a deep breath, the kids want to perform well, and so find out what’s going on. Find out if he’s struggling at home. Find out if something’s going on in a relationship. Be curious, not judgmental from Ted Lasso. Resting a lot more from Cignetti at IU. Hope this helps.
Hope y’all are off to a great year of practice and getting ready for a special year upcoming. We want to do the same. Thanks.
[00:08:27] Mike Klinzing: Thanks for checking out this month’s Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. We’ll be back next month with another question for our all-star lineup of guests.
[00:08:36] Narrator: Thanks for listening to the Hoop Heads Podcast, presented by Head Start Basketball.