Episode 89: Peter Lonergan, Coach and Player Development

Peter Lonergan, Coach, and Player Development Guest: Peter Lonergan, Basketball Australia's Head of High-Performance Coach Development   In this week’s coaching conversation, Basketball Australia's Head of High-Performance Coach Development Peter Lonergan joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss coach and player development. Best practices for teaching dynamic shooting, mentoring coaches, the “Fantastic Five” of player development, two-way teaching, small-sided games and so much more are outlined. Peter Lonergan has been an influential coach educator impacting coaching development around the world. Australian Opals Assistant Coach, a highly successful State Director of Coaching in Victoria and New South Wales, and a national, and an international clinician for FIBA.   Breakdown 1:00 - "Kaizen" and the concept of Form Shooting 4:00 - Thoughts on Traditional form of shooting 6:00 - Off-Hand Down 8:00 - Technique Volume SItuational 10:30 - Skill is the Foundation of Joy 12:00 - Fantastic Five 13:00 - Doing More Drills 15:00 - Retention 16:30 - Concept of Developing Coaches 18:00 - Things He Learned from Attending Practices 20:00 - His Best Practices about Mentorship 22:00 - Concept of Coaching Interventions 25:00 - Continually Moving and See the Play 26:30 - Feedback using Video 28:00 - Value of Basketball Clinics 30:30 - 6-Point Checklist 32:30 - Spacing and In-built by Reversal 34:00 - Opportunity for Dribble Penetration 35:30 - Screens 37:00 - Developing Post Plays in Australia 38:30 - Pivoting 40:30 - Numerical Advantage and DIsadvantage 42:30 - Sound Creativity 45:00 - Basketball Resources in Australia   Peter Lonergan’s Bio Bio: https://coach.basketball.net.au/people/peter-lonergan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lono610 Basketball Australia Website: www.coach.basketball.net.au    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.