A Pen And A Napkin

The Denver Nuggets shook up the basketball world this week with their epic 3-1 comeback against the heavily favored Los Angeles Clippers. With the other LA team waiting for them, my Headlines! partner Casey Hall and I break down the other side of the bracket and make our picks to see who will represent the west in the NBA Finals.

Casey Hall joins me once again, this time to discuss the NBA Eastern Conference finals. We go through the match-ups, discuss which team have the edge in what spot, point out where both teams might be suseptible, and give our predictions as to who is going to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA finals this year.

Madison Memorial (WI) Boys HC Steve Collins, the owner of teachhoops.com comes on the podcast. We have a great, free flowing conversation about the use of social media, building relationships with your players, building a great staff, using analytics and how to navigate the coaching world while social issues and Covid-19 continues to change our job description every day. Terrific podcast from end to end!!

For the first time, we're going to combine an interview podcast with a Foundation Friday podcast! NBA shooting coach Dave Love, who has worked with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Phoenix Suns and the Cleveland Cavaliers, along with Team Canada, goes through his philosophy on shooting and things you can do as a high school coach to make your players better individual shooters.

In the second half of Jon Gordon's book "The Carpenter", we discuss important topics that are relevant to coaching, like serving with love to your team, how success often takes a long time, dealing with failure and how to recover from it and many more lessons that can be applied to both basketball and life!

Bennington (NE) GBB HC John O'Connor comes on the pod to discuss a variety of topics, including lessons learned after being a first time state tournament HC, involving players in social media, building a program up from scratch, offensive and defensive transition, while we wrap with a back and forth on program building. A ton of great information!

Although the traditional back to the basket post player is not as prevalent as it once was, at some point it is going to come back. As a high school coach, if you have a back to the basket post player that is one of your five best players, you HAVE to develop that player and make them an effective part of your offense. Here are some tips to help develop your post players around the basket.

The famed author Jon Gordon is famous for his stories of everyday people who are lost and need direction, someone who has encountered a situation where they are not really sure what the next step is. In "The Carpenter", Gordon puts together a story where many of us as coaches have been; stressed, burnt out and frustrated, losing our passion that once burned so brightly. Here are some lessons from this very simple book that can hopefully help you get better and become the craftsman you want to be!

I can't believe we're at 50! Tim Cannon, the Boys HC at Millard North (NE), jumps on the podcast to discuss his four decades of coaching in the Omaha metro, building a juggernaut at Millard North, coaching a top 20 player in the nation, pressure defense, attacking pressure and much more. So much good information from one of the best in the business!

No matter how talented your team may be, if you don't have a great point guard (or we may want to start referring to this position as "decision maker"), your team is probably not going to reach their goals. Here are some tips and ideas on how to develop great decision makers and methods that you can use, both on and off the court, to put your decision makers in the best positions possible.