Episode 59: Mike Taylor, International Coaching Trends

Guest: Mike Taylor, European Coaching Legend In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, European coaching legend Mike Taylor joins the podcast to discuss building a national team program and coaching trends in international basketball. Since 2014, he has coached Poland's national basketball team. He has helped end their 52-year World Cup absence of qualifying for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019. This will be only the second FIBA World Cup appearance for Poland. The two year qualification process, saw Poland compiling an 8-4 mark, winning their last five games, upsetting Croatia twice and Italy once. Taylor is also currently the head coach of the Hamburg Towers of the German ProA. In his first season, he won the championship with the club and led Hamburg to its first promotion to the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).   Breakdown 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Creating a Positive Environment to his Team 4:00 - Positive is almost Confronting to the Players 6:00 - Things to Focus on in a Short Time Frame 8:00 - Preparing for FIBA tournaments 11:00 - Flexibility and Versatility 13:00 - Game Plan in Advance 15:00 - Flexible System Means 17:00 - Reading the Game 19:00 - Walkthroughs, Active and 55/50 Drill 21:30 - Zero Coverage 24:00 - Defending the Dribble Handoffs and Whip 27:00 - Flexibility of Defense between Situational Denial 29:00 - Different Adjustments 31:33 - Dealing with Really High IQ Players 34:40 - 5-on-0 Pop Penetration 38:00 - Spending time on 5-on-0 Pop Penetration 39:00 - Talk about the "5" Position 42:00 - What to Expect to Poland Basketball 44:00 - Fun Seeing in the World Cup 45:30 - Practical Things Coach Mike Done to Bring Team Together Mike Taylor’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Taylor_(basketball_coach)   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.