Hoop Nerds with Billy Kegler presented by the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association

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Disciple of Legendary Coach Don Meyer – Northern State

Starts, Stops and Turns

Finishing variations

Instinctually you have to feel it

You don’t have to have all the answers you just need to know where to find them

Accountability

The Force

Darth Chair Mover

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Teaching life lessons

Work hard and lose

Pat Summitt

Introduction on BadgerBall

Pouring into others

Recruited to play football

Path into coaching / training

Work out design evolution

Playing off of reaction

Be a force

Small sided games

Decision making and reps

3rd Grade Hoops

Pivot and create space

Passing

Spacing

Play in the chaos

Dad was a teacher and coach

Varying experience

Systems

Recruitment Process

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Losing voice coaching camp

Working relationships

Scouting reports

Terminology

Close outs

Protect the basket first

Adversity

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Set Tip Plays

Take advantage of the small opportunities in the game

Playing for the love of the game

Thrown into coach at the varsity level

AAU positively affecting your program

"Bad Luck"

Ran what you know best

"Showtime"

It's not just "you" that you have to think about

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Forced into coach due to injury

Play the game on your lips

Coaching Journey

One of nine Children

Zone Defense

Man Defense Concepts

Communicating visualizing

Mentor

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Shoot before you turn it over

Shade left

Close out footwork and positioning

Scouting report

What eats at you

Failure

Mentor

Celebrating all your players

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Coach on the floor

Eliminate losing

Enhancing defensive mindset

Standards

Enter with fury and excitement

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JV coaching playing at Oak Hill

Pace of everything

Knowing “myself”

Traits of a player by their interactions with those closest to them

Mentorship

Protecting the program

Gritty

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Coaching youth camps

The OJ Mayo experience

Softball Coaching

Finding good people

One recruiting question

NBA Comparisons

Mentorship

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Arizona State Graduate Assistant – You do nothing to do with coaching

First Scout Lessons

Career is like a Southwest Airlines Map

Wanting a head coaching position that best fits you

Being a great assistant coach

Individual Meetings

Conversation Tips

What is “this”?

Get into someone’s thought process.

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Making multiple positive decisions

Love

Leadership book reads

Relate with players

Finding their why

Spending time together

Why questions

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Video games

Coaches kid

Coaching Journey – head coach at 25

Not knowing is “ok”

Teaching guys how to read

Small – Large – Neutral Advantage

Me first for us

Unguarded shooting percentage v. guarded shooting percentage

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Main focus

Feeling of learning and translating to games

What is intriguing about a program in order to take it over

How to connect with Athletic Directors

Recruiting progression

Play to your strengths

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Early coaching career

Moving into coaching girls/women

Defensive philosophy change

Less is more

Scouting report set up

Mental side of basketball

Team book reads

Team building

Basketball Golf

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Organizing play as a kid

Played for 3 different college coaches

Coaching Path

Legend of Mike Nelson

Recruiting new players quickly

If you could ask a recruit only 1 question, what would it be?

Changes on roster make-up over his career

Boys to men transition

What does UW Green Bay Basketball “look like”

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Recruiting as a young coach

Impact is in practice

Motion offense

Offense rises to the level of talent

Need a lot of hoops

Situational awareness

Competing

The Standard

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First Technical Foul

Surrounded with great coaches

Defensive adjustments contesting at the rim

Scouting reports

Ball Screen Defense attention

Structure, Routine and Discipline

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Goal is to make it to the NBA

Love of coaching

Evolution of coaching

1st grade teachers influence

Defensive emphasis as a team

Coaching confidence and positivity

Team Defense

Close game mindset

Lead from the back

Favorite Failure

Seeing the game through the lens of a coach early

Mentors

“When the student is ready to learn the teacher will appear”

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Coaching Journey

Problem Solving

Community Service

Individual and Team Impact methods

Change

Teamwork Backfiring

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Basketball Journey

Learning how to do it the “right way” in high school

Learning from failure

Using optimism self-talk and body language

Fear of losing and relief

Transitioning from High School to College

Alternate reality

Role with the San Antonio Spurs

Gregg Popovich

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Starting as a freshman girls coach

Developing Confidence

Alumni Importance

Keeping Everyone Engaged

Re-energizing yourself

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Transitioning from playing professionally to coaching

Adapting to each player

Battle of the feet

Hit first

Facing up / vision in the post

Defensive post positioning

Doubling the post

Coaching Confidence

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1,000 career varsity

55 Years as a head coach

November 22, 1963 – Infamous day in history

Driving force to not retire

Adjusting to each group of players

Talking Team

Support System

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Building blocks for a coach

Early lessons as a young coach

The fun part of being part of a team

Player Development

Perspective

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Importance of coaching the team concept

Communicating and receiving the message clearly

Roy Williams Lessons

Player conversations

Coaching as a father

Shooting mechanics

10,000 hour rule

4 levels of learning

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Elite Practice Planning

The state aligns with the University of Wisconsin

Evolution of the game

Empathy

Interview Sheet

Therapeutic Cooking

Losing is hard

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First scout as an assistant

Next play mentality

All about the young women

Build culture every day and evolving it

Player-Coach Relationship

Critical thinking skills

Passing variations

Post entry passing

Teaching the feel of cutting

Small sided games

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Marquette Men's Basketball Head Coach Shaka Smart joins us to discuss defensive philosophy, concepts and situations. 

Changes in the game

Not sending mixed messages

Violence – Multiple Efforts – Deflections

Free Throw Misses

Fight the ball coming in bounds

Ten Toes – Mad Man

Feel and Understanding - Center Field

Good Guards

Presence

Michael Jordan and Jalen Rose

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University of Wisconsin Men’s Basketball joins us to discuss Ball Screens from both sides of the ball, 3 point shooter and keeping things simple.

Introduction to coaching a different style

Transition 3 point shooting

Ball Screen Offense and Defense

Chute Attacks

Make Contact

Tag Switch

Well rounded players

Simplicity

Stop the ball

Specificity in teach

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Introduction to coaching

Being Helpful

Trust

Pressure Coaching

Feel good about yourself physically and mentally

Competition and video

Teaching through video

The open player

Golf partner

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