Episode 92: Tuomas Iisalo, Collective Basketball

Tuomas Iisalo, Collective Basketball Guest: Tuomas Iisalo, HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim Head Coach   In this week’s coaching conversation, HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim head coach Tuomas Iisalo joins the Basketball Podcast to collective basketball. Iisalo has been the head coach in the Basketball Bundesliga, the highest level league of professional club basketball in Germany, since March 2016. After the end of his playing career, Iisalo took over as head coach for the first division club Tapiolan Honka in the 2014-15 season and was subsequently assistant coach of the female U15 national team in Finland. In March 2016 he was appointed by German Bundesliga club Crailsheim Merlins committed. The relegation in the Bundesliga has been missed out, but Iisalo received a contract extension and supervised the team after relegation in the 2 Bundesliga ProA  In the 2017-18 season, Iisalo led the Crailsheimers back into the Bundesliga as runner-up in the second division. He managed to Crailsheim in the season 2018-19 against relegation in the Bundesliga, which was established only after a victory on the final day and was called a "miracle" due to the circumstances. At the beginning of the game year, 2019-20 to Crailsheim developed under Iisalos line to the surprise team in the league and stood after five wins from the first five games on the first table rank.   Breakdown 1:00 - Collective Basketball 3:00 - Cultivating Successful Interactions 4:00 - Things He Looked for in Recruiting 7:00 - Best Player 9:00 - Budget 11:00 - Being the Better Collective is Realistic 13:00 - Maximizing Work Rate 15:00 - Challenging His Players 16:30 - Working on Habits 19:00 - Collective Basketball on Offense 21:00 - Running Set Plays 23:30 - Practice is Enjoyable because of this Mindset 25:30 - Handling Outliers 27:30 - Reverse Engineering Offense 31:00 - Decision-Making cycle 34:00 - Closeout Decision Practices 36:00 - Defining Shot Selection 39:00 - Teams and Coaches to Watch For 44:00 - Aggressive Pick and Roll Defense   Tuomas Iisalo’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Iisalo  Twitter: https://twitter.com/coachiisalo    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.