Episode 103: Jeff Van Gundy, Teaching and Coaching
Episode 103: Jeff Van Gundy, Teaching and Coaching
Guest: Jeff Van Gundy, Current NBA Analyst, and Former NBA Head Coach
In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, current NBA analyst, and former NBA head coach, Jeff Van Gundy, join the Basketball Podcast to discuss basketball teaching and coaching. Van Gundy joined ESPN in 2007 and is currently an NBA analyst who has called 12 NBA Finals, the most Finals ever for a TV game analyst. He has also recently undertaken nine different USA Basketball assignments since 2017. He has compiled a 15-2 overall record as a USA head coach for a sterling .882 winning percentage.
Van Gundy boasts 18 seasons of NBA coaching experience, including 11 seasons as a head coach for the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets, and seven seasons as an assistant. All tallied, as a head coach he compiled an overall record of 430-318 (.575), and led teams to the NBA playoffs in nine of his 10 full seasons and posted a 44-44 all-time playoff record.
Breakdown
1:00 - Things Learned from Other Coaches
3:00 - Talking about Coach Nick Nurse
5:00 - Advantages of Having Experience in some Leagues
9:00 - Things that Coaches Don't Get Enough Credit For
11:00 - Improvisation
13:00 - Time in Practice
15:00 - Flop
17:00 - Perception and Repetition of the Game
20:00 - Things that are Challenging is good to the Players
23:00 - Right to the Point
24:00 - Playing 1-on-1
26:30 - Practice Less
28:00 - Organize the 1-on-1
33:00 - Overcoming Cultural and Historical Norms in Basketball
35:30 - Learning from International Coaching
37:30 - Ways to bring team back in a very short time
40:00 - Best Methods in Basketball Today
43:30 - Perspective of Coaching his best players more
45:00 - Receiving Feedback
49:00 - Load Management
51:00 - Early Specialization
53:30 - Words to the Parent
55:00 - Summer League
56:30 - Weight Room
58:00 - Sports Science
1:00:00 - Conclusion
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