Episode 39: Randy Brown, 12 Anchors for Coaching Clarity, Effectiveness, and Success

Randy Brown, 12 Anchors for Coaching Clarity, Effectiveness, and Success Guest: Randy Brown, Basketball Consultant and Mentor In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, basketball consultant and mentor, Randy Brown, joins the podcast to talk about the 12 Anchors for Coaching Clarity, Effectiveness, and Success. Randy is a former D1 Assistant Coach at Iowa State and Arizona. His 18 years in college basketball highlights a successful 23-year career. Mentored by Basketball Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson at Arizona, Randy’s coaching resume includes positions at Arizona, Iowa State, Marquette, Drake, and Miami of Ohio, 5 Conference Championships and 5 NCAA appearances. His efforts have helped develop 12 NBA players including Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott, and Jamaal Tinsley.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Anchors in Coaching 4:00 - Roots of the Anchors Coming From 6:30 - 1st Anchor, Concept of the Game 8:30 - Play off the Ball and Empower the Weak Side 9:30 - Embracing where Player are Good 11:30 - 2nd Anchor, Communication 13:00 - Communication must come Early 14:30 - 4 Items - Early, What, Directional, Action 16:40 - Teaching Basketball as a Puzzle Concept 18:40 - Coach Through Your Player's Eyes 20:40 - Pieces of the Puzzle 23:00 - 3rd Anchor, Words 25:00 - 4th Anchor, "Toughness" 28:30 - Relating the Game "Tag" to Basketball 31:00 - 5th Anchor, Roles 33:00 - Story about Roles 35:00 - 6th Anchor, The "Top 3 Rule" Story 37:40 - 7th Anchor, School of Bus Rule 39:00 - Defensive Transition, Get Good Shots, Limit Turnovers 40:30 - 8th Anchor, The Rule of Sticky 41:30 - 9th Anchor, Low, Medium, Highest Level of Accountability 42:20 - 10th Anchor, Free Shooting Ideas for Players 44:00 - 11th Anchor, Coach Yourself 47:00 - Frustration of the Coaches 48:00 - Story of "Coach Yourself" 50:30 - 12th Anchor, Enjoy 52:30 - Realization of Enjoying the Game of Basketball 55:30 - Website of Randy Brown: randybrown.coach 57:00 - Book of Randy Brown: Rebound Froward 58:00 - Talking about Adversity 59:00 - Conclusion   Randy Brown’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Brown Website: https://randybrown.coach/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/coachrb   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.