Episode 20: Andrea Trinchieri, Next Level Offensive Thinking

Andrea Trinchieri, Next Level Offensive Thinking Guest: Andrea Trinchieri, Former EuroLeague and Brose Bamberg Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, former EuroLeague and Brose Bamberg head coach Andrea Trinchieri joins the podcast. Trinchieri has been a EuroLeague head coach for five years with Cantu and Brose Bamberg while in 2014 he was named the EuroCup Coach of the Year after leading Unics Kazan to the Finals. In the EuroBasket 2013, he was the head coach of the Greek national team. From 2015 to 2017, Trinchieri led Bamberg to three straight German League titles plus the 2015 Supercup and the 2017 Cup. His trophy case also includes two Italian SuperCup titles plus the 2014 Russian Cup.   Breakdown 1:30 - History of the Game and Educating Players 3:00 - "Basketball is a Very, Very Smart Game" 4:30 - "Pick and Roll" Basketball 6:00 - "Offense is Action. Defense is Reaction" 6:30 - Involving the Off the Ball Players in Pick and Roll 8:00 - "Spacing is the Most Important Thing 9:30 - How to Develop Spacing 11:40 - Correcting Mistakes 14:00 - Setting Priorities in Pick and Roll 15:30 - Angles of the Screens 16:30 - Timing of the Pick and Roll 18:00 - "With Speed and the Right Decision, the Defense will not Stop you" 19:00 - Cue to Release a "Screen" 21:00 - Spain Pick and Roll 23:40 - Screens are More Diagonal, Corner to Baseline 27:00 - Switching Defense 29:30 - Problems for the coaches with the Spain Action 30:30 - Overloading Players with Details 31:00 - Making Player's Instinct Rational 32:00 - The Short Roll 33:30 - Play Calls 34:00 - Running an Efficient Offense and the Need to be "Creative" 35:30 - Balance in Everything 38:00 - "Be Creative Within Your Team Needs" 42:00 - Losing Games and Moving On 44:30 - Practice Structure 46:00 - Comparing a Coach to a Chef 49:00 - Potential Characteristics that Successful Coaches have 50:00  Ideal Characteristics of a Player 51:00 - Passion is the Most Important Thing 53:00 - Team Meetings through Film Studying 56:00 - Off-Screen Situations, Post-ups and other Offensive Stuff 59:00 - "3-point shot after an Offensive Rebound is Totally Unstoppable" 1:01:00 - Need to Have Philosophy, Strategy and Tactics 1:02:00 - Defining Shot Selection and comparing it to NBA 1:03:30 - "Less Athletic but More Physical" in European Basketball 1:04:40 - Corner 3's Winning Titles   Andrea Trinchieri Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Trinchieri Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreatrinkieri   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.