Episode 37: Beno Udrih, Transitioning From Playing to Coaching

Beno Udrih, Transitioning From Playing to Coaching Guest: Beno Udrih, Former NBA Player In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, former NBA player Beno Udrih joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss transitioning from playing to coaching. Udrih played 13 seasons in the NBA, and won two NBA championships playing with the San Antonio Spurs. Udrih played in the NBA for the San Antonio Spurs, Sacramento Kings, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, New York Knicks, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Things to Focus on Developing as a Future Coach 3:00 - Favorite Traits of Coaches he Played for 5:00 - Commitment and Comparing his Practice in Europe and US 7:00 - Scouting Report - Self Scout 8:00 - Workload Management 11:00 - being a Role Player/Backup Player 13:00 - Coaching and Helping a Role Player 14:00 - Noticing Progress and Success 15:00 - What Something that we Overteach? 17:00 - Some Tricks for Smart Playing 18:30 - Perceptual Abilities - How can we Teach this? 20:00 - Ideal Amount of Video Film to Watch 21:30 - Talking about Film Viewing 23:00 - Confidence 24:00 - Communicate Players All the Time 26:00 - In-Game Coaching 27:30 - One of the Toughest Actions 29:30 - Do you Value Ball Movement? 30:30 - Noticeable how Pace Has Changed 32:00 - Traits that he would Bring to his Coaching Now 33:00 - How was the Ball Movement Developed? 34:30 - Focus on One Thing 36:00 - What is a Close Out? 37:30 - Teaching Close Out Skills 38:30 - Footwork and Catch and Shoot 40:00 - Teaching Ball Pick-Up 41:00 - Catching the Ball and Working on Hands 43:00 - Strong Hand and Spots as a Player 44:30 - Transition from Player to Not Playing 46:40 - Building Relationship and Reaching Out 49:30 - Rationale on the One-foot shot/Balance Shot 51:00 - Conclusion Beno Udrih’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno_Udrih Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenoUdrih1   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.