Episode 97: Kevin Burton, Maximizing Each Possession

 Kevin Burton, Maximizing Each Possession Guest: Kevin Burton, Union College Basketball Head Coach   In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Union College head coach Kevin Burton joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss maximizing each possession of a basketball game. Coach Burton runs a system where the substitute throughout a game treats each possession like the last possession in a game. The system, philosophy and grading system he uses to determine who plays in what situation are all discussed. Kevin Burton enters his eight-season as head coach of the Union College men's basketball program. Burton has led the Union program to new heights, winning the school's and program's first-ever NAIA national championship. The Bulldogs captured the 2017 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball National Championship with a record of 35-3, ending the year on a 33-game win streak. He has led the Bulldogs to the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) regular-season and tournament championships in five consecutive seasons (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18). During the past five seasons (2013-14 through 2017-18), Union has gone 101-9 against conference opponents. The Bulldogs earned the No. 1 ranked in the NAIA Division II Coaches' Poll for the first time in program history on Feb. 21, 2017. Union posted a perfect 20-0 conference record in 2016-17.   Breakdown 1:00 - Coach Kevin's Philosophy 3:00 - Treat Every Possession Like It's The Last 6:00 - How his players deny these concepts 8:00 - Changing Values 9:00 - His Grading System 12:00 - Possession 14:00 - Developing Confidence 16:00 - Overvalued last few Possessions of the Game 18:00 - Correlation that leads to Winning 22:00 - Mechanism of Getting Substitution 25:00 - Practicing His Philosophy 28:00 - Maximizing Substitution in Timeout 29:30 - Winning on the Road 32:00 - Challenges Applying His Philosophy 34:00 - No Automatic Subs when players getting number of Fouls 37:00 - Importance of Baseline Defense   Kevin Burton’s Bio Bio: http://www.gounionbulldogs.com/roster/15/4/11116 Twitter: https://twitter.com/kburtonhoops    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.