ROUND TABLE 88 – WHAT IS AN UNTAPPED AREA OF PLAYER DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU’VE STARTED TO SPEND MORE TIME WORKING ON WITH YOUR PLAYERS? – EPISODE 1240
Welcome to the 88th 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.
April’s Round Table question is: What is an untapped area of player development that you’ve started to spend more time working on with your players?
Our Coaching Lineup this month:
- Jason Harris – UMass Boston
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High
- Fonzo Martinez – McKinney Christian (TX) Academy
- Don Showalter – USA Basketball
- Joe Stasyszyn – Unleashed Potential
- David Vogel – Ohio Wesleyan University
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TRANSCRIPT FOR ROUND TABLE 88 – WHAT IS AN UNTAPPED AREA OF PLAYER DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU’VE STARTED TO SPEND MORE TIME WORKING ON WITH YOUR PLAYERS? – EPISODE 1240
[00:00:00] Narrator: The Hoop Heads Podcast is brought to you by Head Start Basketball.
[00:00:20] Mike Klinzing: Hello and welcome to the 88th 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.
April’s Round Table question is: What is an untapped area of player development that you’ve started to spend more time working on with your players?
Our Coaching Lineup this month:
- Jason Harris – Umass Boston
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High
- Fonzo Martinez – McKinney Christian (TX) Academy
- Don Showalter – USA Basketball
- Joe Stasyszyn – Unleashed Potential
- David Vogel – Ohio Wesleyan University
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.
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[00:02:18] Dave Hixon: Hi, this is Dave Hixon, Basketball Hall of Famer and former men’s basketball head coach at Amherst College, and you are listening to the Hoop Heads Podcast.
[00:02:29] Mike Klinzing: Let’s hear from our panel about an untapped area of player development that they’ve started to spend more time working on with their players.
Jason Harris from UMass Boston.
[00:02:43] Jason Harris: Being out of season, we are very limited in what we can do on the floor right now. So a lot of our focus has shifted to what we are planning to emphasize when we get back together. And for the most part, that’s going to be finishing with more purpose and consistency. After we went back and we evaluated, our year wasn’t always the big obvious breakdowns that cost us games.
More often, it was a string of the small plays leading up to that moment. As coaches, we all understand it’s the missed blockout the late rotation, the poor decision in conversion. Not valuing a possession after maybe one or two previously. Poor valued possessions. So moving forward we’re going to be really intentional about building the habits around closing teams out earlier and more efficiently.
So that’ll mean designing our workouts and our segments to emphasize situational awareness, whether that’s playing with the lead or understanding time and score more than we already do. And executing it with discipline when the game starts to tilt in your favor there’s a great quote. When your enemy is making mistakes, don’t interrupt them.
And too many times this year, I think we interrupted the enemy’s mistakes with mistakes of our own. So we want our guys to understand that winning isn’t usually about the loud play at the end. It’s about stacking the right decisions and habits over a four to five minute stretch that puts the game away before it even gets to that point.
[00:04:14] Mike Klinzing: Bob Krizancic, Mentor High School – Mentor, Ohio,
[00:04:21] Bob Krizancic: Coach K, Mentor High School first have a very productive day. Make sure you start it with a purpose. An area that we’ve really worked on so much more than in the past was talking about our culture, which translate to the court. The three main areas, the common understanding makes sure our players do know, why we’re there in all the ramifications.
Second, that there is psychological safety that they can ask questions. It’s okay to be wrong. Failure is a part of success, not the opposite of success. And then the purpose. What are long range goals and why we are all here. Hope that helps you guys have a great day.
[00:05:15] Mike Klinzing: Fonzo Martinez, McKinney Christian Academy, McKinney, Texas.
[00:05:22] Fonzo Martinez: One of the things for us that we’ve worked on is just being better at finishing offensive Advantage place, right? So thinking a lot about the two on one, three on two type of advantages, especially inside the three point line. So we talk a lot to our guys about, Hey, let’s make sure we limit the amount of passes, but we want to be quick with our ball.
Fakes have great shot selection and even talking to them about what does a good miss look like? So we want them to have the mindset that, hey, the ball’s have to attack, not just the rim, but that help side defender. It’s really important to get his frame to commit to you. Hey, if we can get his frame to commit to us and we get long, Ms.
Long misses, a great misses when the defender’s frame commits, because now it allows our other offensive players to clean up the offensive glass. Hey, can we do a great job of just putting ourselves in the best position that we’re either finishing at the rim, getting fouled, or we’re getting that offensive put back?
But yeah, that’s a big thing for us.
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Don Showalter, USA basketball.
[00:07:15] Don Showalter: Hi, Don Showalter from USA Basketball. What is the untapped area for player development? Is a question. I think in my estimation, I think the untapped area is decision making. I think it’s playing with some constraints, three on three, two on two, playing with constraints. I just think more and more trainers should be.
Involved in this action as opposed to just dribble cones and get shots in and the habits are made from repetitions. I still certainly agree with that for shooting and rebounding and ball handling and dribbling, but then I think it’s have to be a point of where you put in some decision making drills.
And definitely some constraint drills such as limiting dribbles or, you have to do some things to keep the ball on your team. So I would encourage this to happen as well as the skill work itself. Building habits, I think these are two of the very most important pieces and I’ve come around to probably looking on my.
Practices over 42 years of high school coaching. And now we’re doing this more with USA basketball as we are certainly doing more of the decision making drills along with the skill development because we see a lot of development with players when we add in these constraints. Thank you.
Joe Stasyszyn, Unleashed Potential, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
[00:08:56] Joe Stasyszyn: Joe Stasyszyn, Unleashed Potential This month’s question is, what’s the untapped area of player development that you have started working more on with your players? The area of player development that I have really focused on individually with teams, small groups, different types of programs, is deliberate practice.
I have a whole model on deliberate practice that I have shared with the Duke men’s coaching staff, the Duke women’s coaching staff, Villanova University women’s coaching staff, and national team players and coaches and programs all around the world. And with this area of player development, you go in with a highly focused purpose of stacking different parts of skills.
So for instance, when we’re working on shooting, we’re working on footwork at the same time. We’re working on balance, we’re working on pickups, picking the ball up quickly to shoot the ball, be prepared to shoot the ball. We’re working on multiple movements, so when I’m doing a shooting workout with a group or an individual or a team, we will break those segments into parts the that, almost like mini skills.
I think that is a way that we can make them focus, really draw in their focus more clearly. And I’ve seen a lot more results in doing that in terms of giving them feedback and not just doing a player development segment for the sake of doing it without a clear, deliberate purpose or plan. Being very intentional on how we do it, using force, doing things on purpose.
Combining multiple skills at once to be more efficient through my experience in using its deliberate practice model with shooting, ball handling, involving competition, involving decision making. In that regard, you’re getting total player development, whereas, just working on shooting a basketball and just maybe the technique is shooting.
So we’re really bringing the focus in really clear and direct, and it’s really. A way to go from being good to being great, and players really have to focus on multiple things at once rather than just catching and shooting a ball rather than just working on ball handling. We have, when we do ball handling with, in intentionality, we work on using force.
We we work on sometimes actually bouncing the ball off the floor at the same spot. Over and over again. So that really causes a player to focus more intently. So I could go on for a lot of time on this. I actually speak on this for USA basketball and their, on their their basketball coach academies nationwide.
And like I said, when I go worldwide, I speak on this and give examples, but it all comes down to doing things with a purpose in mind. And stacking mini skills and giving feedback and using competition and having the the players or the teams compete against each other, compete against time, compete against making a certain amount of shots.
I just think if you want to fine tune your player development, this is the way that, that you should go about it. I’ve seen great success and I’ve gotten great feedback. Like I said, from college programs, from national teams feba national coaches, they seem to really like this model and they’ve had success in using this model.
So once again, deliberate practice being very deliberate in your player development, whether it’s with a team, an individual, small groups, programs it’s a blueprint for success. Thank you.
[00:13:05] Mike Klinzing: David Vogel from Ohio Wesleyan University.
[00:13:10] David Vogel: Hey, what’s up everybody? This is David Vogel with Ohio Wesleyan Men’s Basketball.
One area of untapped player development that we’ve been working on. Two things really. One thing our head coach has done a good, really good job at for a long time is passing don’t feel like you can train passing enough in practice or individual workouts. It really helps when you’ve got all five guys on the court that not only can see it but then can also deliver it.
And then another area that we honestly haven’t really started to work on yet, but we’re going to for next season is a lot of the mental game. Saw some stuff with Corey close from UCLA and a lot of the training responses. And being able to refocus quickly is are things that we’re really looking forward to doing.
It’s something that’s a little outside the box hopefully best of luck.
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