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Welcome to the Basketball Coaches Roundtable.  This episode features Robert Jones, the Head Coach of Norfolk State University, as the guest of the roundtable.  Last season he guided Norfolk State to the MEAC championship and earn a trip to the NCAA Tournament, where they knocked off Appalachian State in the first round.  Coach Jones is ranked 5th among NCAA Division 1 coaches for most conference wins over the last 5 years.



Topics discussed at the Roundtable:


The rise to head coach.
What are his programs core values.
How is the recruiting base for NSU in Virginia?
How do you plan for your conference and NCAA Tournament runs?
How do you keep players mentally prepared when you are playing opponents 4-5 times?
What is your biggest flaw as a coach and how are you working on improving it?
Have you heard more from higher level recruits now given the social climate and NSU being a HBCU?
What is your opinion on the idea that HBCU coaches get overlooked by schools outside of HBCU conferences for jobs?
How do you monitor effort?
How much practice time do you spend on running set offenses?
What are the teams you are studying now?
How did you develop your match-up zone defense?

Sitting at the Roundtable:


Ben Newman - Host
Elle Greene - Head Coach, BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
Sean Clores - Assistant Coach, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Basketball Coaches Roundtable welcomes Coach Robert Robinson as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Robinson is the assistant coach at East Los Angeles Community College.  ELAC was the feature in the Netflix documentary series Last Chance U.  Before joining the junior college ranks, Coach Robinson was highly successful high school coach spanning 20 years.

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable:


How tough is it to implement program philosophies when you start over at year 1 every year?
How do you create balance on your team?
Why did you want to make the jump from HS to JUCO?
How are you building genuine relationships with players in a short period of time?
How have you been able to reflect on your coaching when you look back at yourself in Last Chance U?
How did you give space for the kids social, emotional, and mental needs during the COVID-19 shutdown?
What have you learned about yourself moving from a high school head coach to a JUCO assistant?
What have you learned about recruiting being on the HS side and now being on the college side?
What did you learn about your coaching style during this time away from basketball?


Sitting at the Roundtable:


Ben Newman - Host
Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
Sean Clores - Assistant Coach - Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

This is the Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast.  This episode we welcome DeUnna Hendrix as the Guest of the Roundtable.  Coach Hendrix is the head coach of Miami University of Ohio.  

Topics Discussed:


Why do you think it is so important to share the game with everyone?
What opponents have you learned the most from?
What helped you earn the opportunity to move from assistant coach to head coach at High Point?
How did your relationship with the players change when your role changed from assistant to head coach?
What part of being a head coach was surprisingly most difficult?
What do practices in your program look like?  How are game day shoot-arounds structured?
What is your biggest flaw as a coach?
How do you think outside the box as a coach?
What do you emphasize as a program?
When things aren't going well, what is the most important thing to do for your team?
How do you deal with conflict within your program?
Do you have a philosophy for special situation, ATO's, EOG's?



Sitting at the Roundtable


Ben Newman - Host
Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
Sean Clores - Assistant Coach - Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast welcomes Marc Skelton as part of our panelist spotlight series.  Coach Skelton is the head coach of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS in the Bronx, NY.  He chronicled his teams 2017 city championship in his book Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx HS.  Under the direction of Coach Skelton, Fannie Lou Hamer has won 3 NYC PSAL Class B Championships and 1 NYS Federation Cup Championship.

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable:


When did you find basketball?
Decision not to play college basketball.
When did you get into coaching?
How does your love and learning about different cultures show up in your coaching?
Philippino Basketball.
What makes the NYC Public School League so unique?
How did you get connected with the NY Times?
Do you think having people follow you the whole season had an effect on the season's outcome?
Did the NY Times Article help you to reflect on your coaching?
Finding time to be a Father, Teacher, Coach and write a book?
Comparison of the NBA play-in tournament and the PSAL Borough Championship Tournament.
How do you change throughout your season?

Sitting at the Roundtable:


Ben Newman - Host
Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS, Bronx, NY

Welcome to the Basketball Coaches Roundtable.  This episode we put a spotlight on the BCR executive producer and panelist Elle Greene.  Coach Greene is the 2014 PSAL Class B Champion and the 2018 Runner-up.  

Topics discussed at the roundtable:


Bronx Basketball
Becoming the All-time leading scorer in HS
Scholarship offers & choosing Ohio State University
Adjusting to College Ball
Transferring to St. Peter's University
Party Time!!!!
Playing Overseas
Becoming a Coach
Developing a coaching philosophy
Having your team primed for the playoffs

Sitting at the roundtable


Ben Newman - Host
Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY

Basketball Coaches Roundtable welcomes Zak Boisvert as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Boisvert has been an Assistant Coach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for the past five season.  He is also the founder and creator of PickandPop.net.

Topics Discussed:


What teams are you studying now and what are the actions that most intrigue you?
How do you determine what you will use from the film that you watch?
How do you turnkey the concepts you have picked up to your team in practice?
How did you use Army's advantages in your recruiting pitch?
Were you able to use the transfer portal at the U.S. Military Academy?
How did you get your start and make your way in the field of coaching?
How did you prepare for the unique Patriot League season this year?
What did you notice prepping for back to back games verse the same opponent?
What is your philosophy in the first 8 seconds of the shot clock and then after those 8 seconds?
Looking at your practice time, how much is spent doing 5 v. 0 vs. 5 v. 5
How would you like to play defense?

Sitting at the Roundtable


Ben Newman - Host
Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
Mike King - Head Coach - Community Health Academy, Manhattan, NY
Dan Murphy - Special Assistant - Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ