Basketball focused podcast! Basketball Division 1 Recruiting, developing & maintaining winning culture, player development, and more! In Ep. 18 of The Rise Up Podcast, Coach Vigansky & Coach Tyler McDevitt (Assistant Coach Marquette University) talk all things bball.  We begin discussing Coach McDevitt’s coaching pathway, how he has earned more responsibility and gained more trust […]

Speed Kills! After some time away, we are back in action with The Rise Up Podcast!! In this episode, we talk with Coach Steve Haggerty regarding his path to becoming a Performance Coach in the private sector, working with everyone from youth athletes to elite athletes at Parkview Sports Medicine in Indiana and prepping players […]

Improving Health & Performance through nutrition is key for all walks of life.  In Ep. 16, I sit down with Erica Beine of Beine Wellness and discuss the impact that our DNA has on how we process foods. Erica has worked with some of the best and most recognized athletes in the world.  Including NCAA […]

In this basketball-centric episode from Spring of 2020, Bulls’ Scout Dave Bollwinkel shares his coaching and scouting experiences from the HS through the NBA level.  Topics include: His process to becoming a Div. 1 Coach (up through 23:00) Key concepts in developing championship culture & leadership within the team (starting 31:00) What sticks out when […]

Skills training takes many forms and in this podcast, we discuss Constraints Lead & Differential Learning with Alex Sarama of Basketball Immersion and Pallecanestero College (a Basketball Academy in Italy).  In his recent blog, he stirred up debate on how to develop fundamental basketball skill.  In this podcast, we take a look at the following: […]

Player development is key at all levels of basketball.  In this episode, Dave Severns, the LA Clippers Director of Player Development & Pro Personnel Scout, takes us through the developmental process from youth through High School, College & NBA.  Topics include the following: What are the main fundamentals to teach at the youth level A […]

In this information packed episode from Spring 2020 about Sports Nutrition, we speak with Director of Performance Nutrition at Impact Basketball (and former Sport Nutritionist @ University of Georgia and ex-pro basketball player in England’s BBL) Isaac Mourier and go through the following: Isaac’s Role @ Impact How he develops rapport with NBA Players The […]

Details In this Podcast from Spring of 2020, UW Director of Scouting & Recruiting, Coach Kyle Blackbourn, walks the listener through how UW handled the beginning of the pandemic, how their student-athletes’ commitments & development processes change throughout the year, what the D1 recruiting process is like and what athletes can do to put their […]

In Episode 10, we speak with Dave Laughlin, PhD Skill Acquisition, of Courtex Performance.  We talk about what skill acquisition is, different approaches to its development, and give application examples in basketball and baseball.  We also touch on personality differences and how as a coach you can utilize different approaches based on an athlete’s personality.  […]

In this episode, we speak with Nathan Cooper-Brown about his basketball journey that has provided him the opportunity to Coach Men’s & Women’s basketball from the youth Regional levels through the elite National levels in Australia and internationally.  Within our conversation, we speak about transformational based coaching, the difference between coaching male & female athletes,  […]