The Basketball Experience: Recent Episodes
Garrett Winegar
Basketball Conversations with some of the games best minds. Digging into offensive and defensive strategy, player development tips and drills, leadership principles, and all things hoops.
Kory Barnett, comes on The Basketball Experience to share his experiences throughout the ranks of college basketball coaching. Coach Barnett was a player and grad assistant at Indiana before heading to UCLA, where he served as a video coordinator, director of basketball ops, and an assistant during his six years there. He is now an assistant at Nevada under Coach Steve Alford. While at UCLA, they compiled a 124-63 record and went to 3 sweet 16s in 6 seasons.
Coach Barnett and Coach Winegar discuss: -Roles and responsibilities of each coaching role he has served in.
-Excelling in the transfer portal and winning in today's game.
-Offensive keys that allowed UCLA to lead the nation in offensive efficiency in 2016-2017
-Coaching great players, and the attributes that made Lonzo Ball special
-Connecting learning to NBA players and examples
-Impacting student athletes on and off the floor
Matthew McCollister, head coach of South St. Paul High School in Minnesota and head coach of the Tanzanian National team comes on the Basketball Experience to discuss:
- Taking South St. Paul from 32 combined wins in the 10 years prior to his arrival to 18-10 in year 1 and 19-2 in year 2. Winning more conference games in year 1, than South St. Paul had won in the previous 10 years combined.
- Rebuilding programs and establishing culture.
- How they averaged 84 ppg, 2nd in the state in scoring
- No Rim Run Fast Break Principles
- Tanzanian National Team Coach
- Gratitude and Coaching
Franklin High School Head Coach Adrian Moss comes on the Basketball Experience to discuss:
- Transitioning from an assistant to a head coach
- Integrating Player Development into a high school program
- Challenges that you face as a young head coach
- Training Basketball players, not positions
- How trainers, school coaches, aau coaches, strength coaches, etc. need to work together for the best interest of the player!
The legendary coach, Brendan Suhr comes on the Basketball Experience Podcast for a deep hoops dive. Brendan Suhr has over 45 years of coaching experience, including 25+ as an NBA assistant and executive, former CBA coach of the year, 2x NBA champion with the Bad Boy Pistons, coach for the Dream Team, and founder of Coaching U.
In this episode, Coach Suhr and Coach Winegar Discuss:
- Coaching Great players
- Offensive innovation in today's game
- Why we coach People, not Players
- Attacking the pack-line defense
- What Coach Suhr learned in his time with Coaches Chuck Daly, Hubie Brown, Dick Vitale, and Donnie Jones.
- Much More!
Renowned sports psychologist, mental toughness coach, 7x author, and endurance athlete Dr. Rob Bell comes on to discuss mental toughness in sports and life. We dive into a variety of topics from how athletes can become mentally tougher, to being a good sports parent, to what it takes to run a 100 mile race.
Jordan Delks of Compete Training Academy comes on to discuss player development and what he learned at his coaching stops at Purdue, Indiana Wesleyan and Judson University! Jordan details how he and his wife went from coaching to starting their own training business and opening their own training facility.