Episode 10: The Ragin’ Cajuns Way with Coach Bobby Marlin

The Ragin’ Cajuns Way with Coach Bobby Marlin Guest: Bobby Marlin, Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Men's Basketball Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Bobby Marlin joins the podcast. Marlin is in his 8th season as Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Men's Basketball Head Coach. He has been the architect of a resurgence of the Ragin’ Cajuns as he has led the team to five postseason appearances in the past seven years. With a combined 112 wins since the 2013-14 season, Marlin has helped the Ragin’ Cajuns to their best win total among schools in the Sun Belt Conference. The 2017-18 season was a record-breaking year for the Ragin’ Cajuns as Louisiana won a school-record 27 games and earned its first outright Sun Belt Conference regular-season title since the 1999-2000 season. In the podcast, Coach Marlin discusses practice strategies, offensive and defensive ideas that have shaped his program, and a number of things that has shaped his long success as an NCAA basketball head coach. Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 1:40 - Continuing Process and Never Stop Learning 2:40 - Coach Marlin’s Shifted Basketball Philosophy 6:30 - Love - Building into the Basketball Program 8:00 - Cohesion and Activities that leads from that Love 10:30 - Coach Marlin’s on Player Development 12:07 - Help Screen Players on Player Development Process 14:00 - Coaching Your Best Players 14:30 - Talking about Offense - Ways of Improving over the Years 16:00 - The Dribble Pass Push 16:57 - Pre-Dominant Point Guard 17:30 - Where Players Go in the Traditional Trail? 18:30 - Slower Pace and Expectation of Transition Defensively to other Teams 20:00 - Never Call Timeouts and Decision Making to your Players 21:00 - “Good in Transition on Offense should be Good in Transition on Defense” 21:55 - Good Offense start with a Good Defense 22:15 - Corner Three’s 23:09 - It comes back to the Numbers and Certain Percentages 23:37 - 5 on 2 Drill, Advantage and Disadvantage Drills 26:06 - Example of the Player Executing the Drill 27:30 - Conditioned on Rebounding 29:30 - Coach Chris’s Favorite Advantage Disadvantage Drill 33:00 - Another One Disadvantage Drill for Coach Bob 35:30 - Core Philosophy of Adapt and Change 36:20 - Dig Deeper of 5 on 2 Drill Adaptation 38:30 - Another Good Thing about the 5 on 2 Drill 40:00 - Matching Up Players 40:40 - Philosophy if Coach Bob Didn’t get Any Type of Primary Action 42:20 - Freedom of Players in Terms Advantage Disadvantage 43:55 - Adapting Players to the 24-second Shot Clock 44:55 - Looking into International Games 46:30 - Coach Bob’s Transitioning to become a Head Coach 48:10 - Coach Chris’s Experience before becoming a Head Coach 48:40 - Clinics for Assistant Coaches   Bob Marlin’s Social Media Bio: https://ragincajuns.com/coaches.aspx?rc=895 Twitter:  https://twitter.com/bobbymarlin   Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.