Episode 81: Ross McMains, New Zealand Basketball’s Offensive System

Ross McMains, New Zealand Basketball’s Offensive System Guest: Ross McMains, New Zealand National Team Assistant Coach    In this week’s coaching conversation, New Zealand national team assistant coach Ross McMains joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss the offensive system New Zealand implemented during the 2019 Basketball World Cup.   McMains, who has been in various roles in the G-League and NBA, is currently an assistant coach with the New Zealand national team as well as an assistant coach with Melbourne United in the Australian NBL.   His coaching career in the NBA began as a special assistant – a role that saw him focus on player development – with the Sacramento Kings for the 2012–13 NBA season, before spending the next two seasons with Sacramento's D-League affiliate, the Reno Bighorns.   He returned to New Zealand in 2015 and was named assistant coach for the New Zealand Tall Blacks. He went on to win the NZNBL Coach of the Year as head coach of the Taranaki Mountainairs in 2016. From there, he returned to the United States and spent two seasons in the NBA G League as an assistant coach with the Santa Cruz Warriors and Westchester Knicks, before joining the New York Knicks for the 2018–19 season as a player development coach.   Breakdown 1:30 - Offensive Advantage Pie Chart 3:30 - Dominos 6:00 - Increasing recognitions 9:00 - One of the Fastest Pace Teams 13:00 - Buy-ins 16:00 - Triggers 19:00 - Progression on the Practice 21:00 - Handoffs without Dribbles 24:00 - Cross Angles 28:00 - Process of Working Hard as a Coaching Staff 32:00 - Handshake 34:00 - Defining Shot Selection for Players 36:00 - The coverage solutions 40:00 - Measuring the Track of the Analytics 43:30 - Evaluation in terms of the Analytics 46:00 - Percentage Shots and Player Evaluation 49:00 - Players Who are Hard on Themselves 51:30 - Struggle of Traditional Bigs 54:00 - Advantages 56:00 - Melbourne United Basketball 58:00 - Conclusion   Ross McMains’ Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_McMains Twitter: https://twitter.com/rossmcmains     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.