Episode 28: Jonathan Smith, Applying Basketball Immersion Concepts to High School Coaching

Jonathan Smith, Applying Basketball Immersion Concepts to High School Coaching Guest: Jonathan Smith,  Morristown West Basketball Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Morristown West basketball coach Jonathan Smith discusses applying Basketball Immersion concepts to high school basketball coaching, with the creative mind behind Basketball Immersion, Chris Oliver. Coach Smith is the high school basketball Head Coach at Morristown West High School in Morristown, Tennessee.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Reaching Out to Coach Chris 3:00 - Practice Schedule 4:00 - Individual Workouts 5:00 - Mixed Drill 6:00 - Doing Practice on their Own 8:00 - "Repetition without being Repetitive" 9:00 - Basketball Decision Training or BDT 11:00 - Live 1-on-1 and Enhancing it 13:00 - Decision of 1-on-1 15:00 - Dribble Limits 16:00 - 2-on-1 Drive and Kick and Closeouts 17:00 - Words that Empowers our Players 18:00 - 3 G's of Drill Design and Solving a Problem 19:00 - Emphasizing Transition 20:00 - Starting 4-on-4 Practice 21:00 - Starting of Coach Chris Practice 23:00 - Applying Body Pressure instead of Arm Length 25:00 - Correcting Player During Drills 26:30 - Competitiveness and Correcting Players 28:30 - Closeout Rebounding Drill 31:00 - Offensive Breakdown of Coach Chris 32:00 - Idea of Connection and 4-on-4 Offensive Breakdown 34:00 - Timing 35:00 - Positive Transfer and Execution of Drills 36:00 - Perception of Back Screen and Reading the Skip Option 37:00 - Players not to Look on Back Screens 38:30 - Creating Advantage 39:30 - Film Watching 41:30 - Focus on Individual 42:30 - Continuing to Correct and Looking for their Progress 44:30 - Value of Video 45:30 - The Power of Facebook 46:00 - Conclusion Jonathon Smith’s Bio Twitter: https://twitter.com/jsmoooth33   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.