Episode 22: Brad Campbell, Lessons From International Coaching

Brad Campbell, Lessons From International Coaching Guest: Brad Campbell, University of Western Mustangs Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Brad Campbell and Chris Oliver discuss their experience coaching Canada 3D Global Sports at the 40th Jones Cup in Taiwan. This podcast is accompanied by a blog Lessons from Coaching at an International Basketball Tournament. Brad Campbell is head coach of the University of Western Mustangs. In 11 seasons at the helm, Campbell has lead his team to a pair of OUA West Division championships and a bid in the U SPORTS Final Eight National Championship in 2008 and 2009. It was in the 2008-09 season that he was named the OUA Coach of the Year.   Breakdown 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Rivals to Friends 3:00 - Experiences at the Jones Cup 5:00 - Putting a Team for a Short Amount of Time 6:30 - Going Quite Few Things 8:00 - Challenges over the Schedule 10:00 - Maximizing Time and Constant Communication to Players 11:00 - Outstanding to him to be an Assistant Coach 13:00 - Advice to other Assistant Coaches 15:00 - Timeout 16:00 - Exhausted but Focused on the Game 18:00 - Handling Adjustments and Calling Some Terminologies 20:00 - How International Teams make him Defend the Whole Court? 21:30 - Ball Screen, Rescreen and Quick Shots 23:30 - Weak Side Action 26:00 - Defense is the Difference 28:30 - Focus on Spacing and One-hand Finishes 30:30 - Fundamentals and De-Fundamentalize Players 31:30 - Perceptual Lay-ups 32:30 - Soft And-1 will be the Favorable Call 34:30 - Level of Coaching of the Asian Coaches 36:30 - Little Creativity on Inbound Plays 38:00 - Ricardo Ratcliff and Less on Scoring on Post 40:00 - Reads for the Ball Screen Offense 42:00 - Tons of Ball Screen Defense 43:00 - Chess Game 44:30 - Culture of Basketball in Taipei 46:30 - Level of Competition in the Tournament 47:30 - Brotherhood Developed to Other Teams 49:00 - Managing Players and Winning the Tournament 51:30 - Not a lot of Zone Defense 53:30 - Playing Zones 55:30 - “Travel Day is Not an Off-Day” 57:00 - Conclusion   Brad Campbell’s Bio Bio: https://westernmustangs.ca/coaches.aspx?rc=637 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brad_Campbell_3   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.