Episode 11: Chris Caputo’s Defense and Miami Basketball Concepts

Chris Caputo’s Defense and Miami Basketball Concepts Guest: Chris Caputo, Associate Head Coach at Miami Basketball In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, we are joined by Chris Caputo. Coach Caputo is in his eighth season with the Hurricanes and his 17th season on head coach Jim Larrañaga’s staff. Caputo is the associate head coach at Miami, and also the team's defensive coordinator. The podcast starts with discussion about being a long term assistant coach to Jim Larrañaga, coaching in Miami, adapting to the ACC talent, switching concepts on defense, defensive ideas, and many other basketball coaching topics. Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 1:30 - Challenges in Preparing to be a Head Coach 4:20 - Meeting Concept 7:00 - Access to NBA players, People, and Skills Trainer got Impact to Coach Chris’s Program and Learning 9:30 - Pick-Up 12:00 - Challenges Competing in the ACC and how it dictates some of Coach Chris’s Philosophy and Approach to the Game 15:00 - Discussing Players and it’s matchups in the ACC 17:00 - Talking about Switching 20:00 - Encourage Switching Concept on High School and Youth Coaches 21:00 - Size is Overrated 23:00 - Decision Making Process on Defense 25:20 - Defensive Positioning and Guarding the Ball 26:00 - Concept and Process of Communication 29:00 - Funny Story about Communication and NBA People 30:30 - Self-Organize 31:50 - Players need to learn from the Game, not just in Basketball Clinics 33:00 - Developing Player’s Habits in Basketball Concept 36:00 - Transferring their work in the Weight Room to the Game 38:30 - Habits that help Coach Chris Players / Defense 1-on-1 40:00 - 1-on-1 Concept 41:30 - Joke about Training and Passion for the game 43:00 - Values on Game-like and Decision Making that will transfer to the Players 45:00 - Phase of Play and on Player Development 47:00 - Shot Selection 49:00 - Floor Spacing and Inbound Philosophy 50:00 - Elite College teams, Elite on Makes 51:20 - “You have no chance if you can’t Defend” 52:00 - Comprehensive Stats Scouting Balance 53:00 - Virginia Team Discussion   Chris Caputo’s Bio Bio: https://hurricanesports.com/staff.aspx?staff=193 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.