Episode 29: Sherri Coale, How to Teach Better Basketball

Sherri Coale, How to Teach Better Basketball Guest: Sherri Coale, Oklahoma Women's Basketball Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Oklahoma women's basketball head coach Sherri Coale joins the podcast to discuss what she teaches, and how she teaches the game of basketball. The conversation covers learning and teaching ideas about how to teach better basketball. In 23 years as the head coach of Oklahoma, the numbers speak for themselves. Coale has been to three final fours, won six Big 12 Regular Season Championships, four Big 12 Tournament Championships, had 19 straight NCAA Tournament appearances, and nine Sweet 16 appearances. While developing 13 All-Americans and 64 All-Big 12 Team selections, Coale has also emphasized academics as the Sooners have had 127 Academic All-Big 12 honors. That progress and consistent success has elevated Coale to elite status in college basketball as well a spot in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2016. Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Quick Story about Dales 4:30 - Athlete as Learners 7:00 - Making Engagement Practice 8:30 - Growing as a Coach 9:30 - Chunking Process 11:00 - Teaching Kids to be Agile Thinkers 13:00 - Understanding that "Messy is Good" 14:00 - Whole Lot of Intestinal Fortitude 15:00 - "Only Way to Grow is to Fail" 17:00 - Practicing and Winning Closeouts 18:00 - How to Deal with Messiness 20:00 - Sacrificing Coaching Points 21:00 - Coaches are Notorious Tellers 22:00 - What is Nudging? 23:30 - Tradition of What you did wrong and Giving Answer 24:30 - Silence is Awkward 25:30 - "Showing Them is Different from Telling Them" 28:00 - The Speed of her Team's Progression and Not Wasting Time 30:00 - Example of Chunking Drills 31:00 - Practice Chunking Drill 33:00 - "What Happens a lot in a Game, Run!" 34:30 - The Gap 35:30 - Process of Doing Full Courts during Practice 37:30 - Full Check; Half Check                             39:00 - Concept of Consequences 41:30 - Coaches want Students to change their Behavior 42:30 - Play with "Abandon" and Access of their Culture 45:00 - Positive Consequence 46:00 - Talking about Tennis 47:00 - Playing and Translating 1-on-1 during Practice 51:00 - Practice Routine 53:00 - Defensive Boot Camp - More on Environmental Chunking 55:00 - Interleaving Practice 56:30 - Defensive Warm Up 57:30 - Scouting Report and Slow Learning Reps 58:00 - Conclusion   Sherri Coale’s Bio Twitter: https://twitter.com/sherricoale Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Coale   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.