Episode 76: Brian Adams, Season Planning and Training Camps

Brian Adams, Season Planning and Training Camps Guest: Brian Adams, Head Basketball Coach of Agua Caliente Clippers    In this week’s coaching conversation, Agua Caliente Clippers head coach Brian Adams joins The Basketball Podcast to discuss season planning and preparing for training camps. Brian Adams enters his second season as the head coach of the Agua Caliente Clippers after leading the team in 2018-19, to a 26-24 record. Prior to joining Agua Caliente, Adams spent four seasons as a coaching associate with the Clippers and previously held roles within the organization as the team’s Video Scouting Director and Head Video Coordinator. Before coming to L.A., Adams worked for three seasons as an assistant coach at the collegiate level, spending the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons at Harvard, and the 2013-14 season at Marist College. Adams, who spent five years with the Celtics, was a member of the organization when Boston won the NBA title in 2008. After serving as a video intern for the Celtics in 2005-06, Adams was promoted to video coordinator and spent four seasons in that capacity with the franchise. A native of Pine Plains, N.Y., Adams began his career as a basketball operations intern for the New York Knicks.   Breakdown 1:00 - Advantages in the Video Room 3:00 - Plan For his Training Camps 6:00 - Clippers Run 9:00 - Team Like Collaboration 10:40 - Load Reports and Data 12:00 - Philosophy for a G-League Organization 14:00 - How he Approach Conditioning 16:00 - Building Culture 20:00 - Isolated Shooting Training 23:30 - 5 Actions in the NBA to Prepare For 25:00 - Nail Help 27:00 - Dealing of the Plays and the Statistics 29:00 - Treating Dribble Handoffs, Ball Screens Philosophically 33:00 - Preparation for Ball Screen Coverages 35:30 - Film Component in the Training Camp 38:00 - Approaching and Balancing Clippers Philosophy 42:40 - Balance the Competitive with the Development 45:00 - Flexibility is Part of Planning   Brian Adam’s Bio Bio: https://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mbkb/coaches/brian_adams?view=bio Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianadams13    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.