Episode 33: Paul Hewitt, The Basketball Coaching Profession

Paul Hewitt, The Basketball Coaching Profession Guest: Paul Hewitt, Current Scout for the Los Angeles Clippers In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, former college head coach Paul Hewitt joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss the basketball coaching profession. Hewitt is currently a scout for the Los Angeles Clippers. He is best known as a college basketball coach. He has been the head coach at Georgia Tech, George Mason and Siena University. His head coaching career started at Siena where he revived a program that had been dormant since the mid-90's and molded it into one of the best in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. In 11 seasons at Georgia Tech, Hewitt went to the NCAA Tournament five times, played for two ACC championships, made one final four and played for a national championship.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Character in Team's Success 4:00 - About Jarrett Jack 5:00 - Knowing more deeply his Players 7:00 - Looking at Friends 9:00 - Things in Practice that Separate a Player 10:00 - Communication is Really Important 12:30 - Running Plays in the NBA and Evaluate 14:00 - Preparing and Scouting to Teams 15:00 - Is NCAA adapting to the New Modern Style? 16:30 - Looking to the Habit of Players 17:30 - How Much that Player Wants to get Better 19:00 - Being Professional 21:00 - Coach-led One-on-One Practice 22:00 - Talking about Fiba 3-on-3 Basketball 25:00 - Figuring out Player's Skills during One-on-One 27:00 - Ball Mastery 28:00 - Differences between Draft Process in Sports 32:00 - Best way to Change the Player's Behavior is the Market Place 33:30 - Player's Worth and Recruitment in different Sports 37:00 -  Player's Value in the Marketplace 38:00 - Corruption in Basketball 41:00 - Coach Untold Stories 42:00 - Being a Model 43:40 - Things that College Coaches can do to be Better 45:00 - Evaluated based on Wins and Losses, Not on the Development 46:00 - Teaching Players how to get Better 47:30 - Final Thoughts   Paul Hewitt’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hewitt Email Address: phewitt@clippers.com   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.