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21st Sep 2018

Episode 18: Mike Rocca, A Player's Perspective

Mike Rocca, A Players Perspective Guest: Mike Rocca, Former Windsor Lancer Basketball Player In this week's basketball coaching conversation, Coach Mark Jablonski discusses a games approach to practicing, basketball decision training, and other aspects of training from a player's perspective, with former Windsor Lancer player Mike Rocca. Mike Rocca played his whole university career for Basketball Immersion founder, and head coach of the University of Windsor men's basketball team, Chris Oliver. Mike developed into an all-star, and an all-time player at the University of Windsor. He graduated top 10 all-time in scoring, rebounds and assists at the University.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - How Mike was Coached 3:00 - Traditional Practice vs. Games Approach 4:30 - Better Decision-Making 5:30 - Individual Improvement Focus 6:40 - Personal Workout Routine 8:40 - Mixing Skills and Decisions 11:30 - Blueprint for Success 12:00 - "Coach Oliver is so Open-Minded" 13:00 - Evidence Based Practice 14:00 - Leading Rebounder as a 5’9 Guard 15:00 - Four B's of Basketball 16:30 - Constant Challenge 17:30 - How did Newcomers to the Program Adjust? 20:00 - Continued Improvement 22:00 - "King of the Left-Handed behind the Back Pass" 23:20 - Earning Freedom 27:30 - Transform the Game 29:30 - Using Reward Systems and Constraints 31:30 - Stopping Practice and Correction 35:30 - Asking Questions 37:30 - BDT 39:40 - Changing Mindset through the use of BDT 40:30 - Deep Talent Pool in College Basketball needs to learn BDT 42:00 - Final Thoughts of Mike Rocca Mike Rocca’s Bio Bio: https://golancers.ca/roster.aspx?rp_id=4036 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MRocca10   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.
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This is the podcast where you will hear real basketball coaching conversations. Whether you are a new or experienced coach at any level of basketball these coaching conversations will give you practical ideas to stimulate your coaching and make what you do even better.

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