Episode 67: Joe Prunty, Big Picture NBA Coaching

Joe Prunty, Big Picture NBA Coaching Guest: Joe Prunty, Former NBA Assistant and Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Joe Prunty who has served as both an assistant and head coach in the NBA joins us to discuss the big picture of NBA coaching. In 22 seasons, Prunty has won three NBA Championships with San Antonio (1999, 2003 and 2005), one NBA Finals appearance with Dallas (2006), four Western Conference Championships (Spurs, Mavericks), and 16 NBA Playoffs appearances. In 2017-18, Prunty had a 21-16 record while serving as the Bucks’ interim head coach and led the team to an NBA playoff appearance. Prunty also served as the interim head coach for 17 games in 2015-16 while Jason Kidd underwent surgery. Bucks went 8-9 and ranked 4th in the East in Offensive Rating during this stretch. Served as the head coach of the Great Britain National Team for five years (2013-17). Appointed interim head coach when Jason Kidd was out for two games with the Brooklyn Nets in 2013-14. On staff of Gregg Popovich and Avery Johnson when they won Coach of the Year Awards.   Breakdown 1:00 - Factors To Win an NBA Championship 2:30 - Chemistry is Important 5:00 - How to Make a Productive Staff 7:00 - The Right Amount of Discussion 10:00 - Trends that are Coming in the Next Years 13:00 - Actions more than Plays  15:00 - Defensive  Mindset 17:00 - Talking about Cutting 20:00 - Influencing Concepts 21:30 - Structure to Unstructured 24:00 - Vision and the Fundamentals  26:30 - Expectations of an NBA Coach  29:30 - Importance of an Organizational List 34:00 - Coaching Unique Players or Unicorns  40:00 - Scouting an Opponent as a Head Coach vs Assistant Coach 43:00 - Self Evaluating their Post Game 46:00 - Defensive Coordinator Could be the Head Coach 49:00 - Real Changed When Watching Playoff Basketball   Joe Prunty’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Prunty    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.