The Basketball Podcast Chris Oliver

Guest: Megan Griffith, Columbia Head Coach
Columbia head coach Megan Griffith joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on developing people, creating culture, and building community.
Griffith has ushered in a new era of Columbia women's basketball. Her six-year tenure as head coach has combined to be the winningest six-year stretch in the NCAA Division I history of the program. Over that time, the Lions have earned seven power-conference wins, including their first victories over opponents from the ACC and Big East. Columbia has also qualified for the Ivy League Tournament in each of its last two seasons, playing in the championship game in 2021-22 before accepting the program's first bid to the Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT).

The 2021-22 season was a landmark year as the team had its winningest season in program history, going 25-7 overall with a 12-2 Ivy League record.

Breakdown
1:00 - Columbia Basketball Program
3:00 - Culture and Core Values
5:00 - Communication
9:00 - Defensive Communication
12:00 - Foundation Things on Offense
15:00 - Changing the Culture
20:00 - Conversation
24:00 - Better Practice
24:29 - 25:03 - Basketball Immersion AD 2023
27:00 - Journaling
35:00 - Wellness Check
38:00 - Greetings and Handshakes
39:30 - Buddy System
43:00 - Journey Meetings
48:00 - Unbalanced as Coaches
51:00 - Multiple Experiences

Megan Griffith’s Bio:
Bio: https://gocolumbialions.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/megan-griffith/2752
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cucoachg
 
Basketball Immersion
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Guest: Seth Greenberg, ESPN College Basketball Broadcaster
ESPN college basketball broadcaster Seth Greenberg joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on coaching, college basketball, and educating players.
 
Prior to becoming an analyst for ESPN Greenberg was a coach for 34 years, the last 22 as a head coach. Greenberg has been the head coach at Long Beach State, the University of South Florida, and Virginia Tech. He was a two-time ACC Coach of the Year.
 
Prior to becoming a head coach, Greenberg was an assistant coach at Columbia, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Miami and Long Beach State.
 
Breakdown
1:00 - Knowledge on Broadcasts
5:00 - Access to Coaches
8:00 - Imitating Coaches
13:00 - Relationship on Players
15:30 - Evolution of the Game
20:00 - Coaching Them Hard
25:55 - 26:36 - Immersion Video Ad
26:00 - Philosophy Behind Meetings
30:30 - Resist Trends
36:00 - The Modern Game
39:00 - Two-Way Contract
43:30 - College Basketball
46:30 - Set of Rules Internationally
50:00 - CFL
52:00 - Shot Clock on High School Level
53:00 - Conclusion
 
Seth Greenberg’s Bio:
Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Greenberg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethonhoops
 
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

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Guest: Jen Oliver, Entrepreneur, a Mother of two daughters, the Author of the International Best Selling Book, “The Love FitMama Way: Transforming the Core of Motherhood”
Chris and Jen Oliver join the Basketball Podcast to discuss learning, unlearning and relearning and so much more from their experiences coaching, playing, and sharing the game.
 
Jen Oliver is an entrepreneur, a mother of two daughters, and the author of the international bestselling book, The Love FitMama Way: Transforming the Core of Motherhood. Jen is an internationally recognized public speaker and has been a consultant, coach, and mentor for many successful online businesses and entrepreneurs since she started her first podcast in 2008. 
 
As an Online Business Development and Mindset Coach, Podcaster, and TEDx Speaker, Jen Oliver inspires, educates, and motivates entrepreneurs around the globe to follow their vision for themselves and to do it with love. What she is most passionate about is spreading the message she draws on from science and mind-body data to support entrepreneurs in being their own biggest ally in business, relationships, and life. Jen has almost 1.8 million views on her viral TEDx talk, “How to Love Yourself to the Core”
 
Breakdown
1:00 - Basketball Immersion Podcast
4:00 - Resistance
7:00 - Decision Training
11:30 - Practice with their Daughters
14:00 - Asking Questions
18:30 - Making Decisions
21:00 - Technical Information
24:00 - Human Interactions
27:00 - New Variables to Practice
29:00 - Messy
32:30 - Concept of Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn
36:00 - Learning New Things
39:00 - Adaptable
41:35 - 42:10 - Basketball Immersion AD
43:30 - Player's Perspective
46:00 - Rabbit Hole
50:00 - Summer League
55:00 - Sharing Experiences
57:00 - Five-Page Essay
1:00:00 - Psychological Safety
1:01:00 - To Be Creative and Free
1:04:00 - Active Participants
1:08:00 - Enjoying The Sport
1:10:00 - Limited in the Game
1:14:00 - People Involvement
1:16:00 - Premium Podcast and Bonus Materials
 
Jen Oliver’s Bio:
Bio: https://basketballimmersion.com/jenoliver/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lovefitmama
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/JenOliver
 
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

Immersion Videos:
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Guest: Ben Taylor, Founder of Thinking Basketball
The founder of Thinking Basketball Ben Taylor joins the Basketball Podcast to challenge and dive deeper into new and old basketball concepts that can help our coaching.
 
Ben Taylor is the founder of the Thinking Basketball YouTube channel, podcast and author of Thinking Basketball the book. In all his platforms, Taylor goes deeper on basketball analysis, history, philosophy and theory. Thinking Basketball challenges a number of common beliefs about the game by taking a deep dive into the patterns and history of the NBA. He explores how certain myths arose while using our own cognition as a window into the game's popular narratives. 
 
He is a behavioral scientist who loves basketball. He has had his blog in some form or another since 2011. Since then he has developed a bunch of historical metrics, hand-tracked hundreds of games, tried to start a basketball data company, written a book about basketball and cognition, and started creating podcasts / YouTube content about the NBA.
 
Breakdown
1:00 - Difficult Concepts
5:00 - Cognitive Scientist
8:00 - Applied Science
11:00 - Not Connecting Perception
13:30 - Data Gathering
15:00 - Evaluating Their Defense
17:00 - Old vs New School Thinking
20:00 - Advocating Coaches
22:00 - Lob Pass
24:30 - Passing
28:30 - Yoga
31:17 - 32:00 - Membership Sales Ads
32:00 - Split Cut
34:00 - The Right Structure
38:00 - Coaching Perspective
42:00 - Concept of pre Switching
46:00 - Adaptability
50:00 - Overload Concept
55:00 - NBA Skill Sets
59:00 - Goal of Offense
1:02:00 - Empowering Players
 
Ben Taylor’s Bio:
Website: https://thinkingbasketball.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elgee35
Podcast: Thinking Basketball -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinking-basketball/id1428290303?mt=2
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/thinkingbasketball
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

Immersion Videos:
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Episode 248: Gordon Herbert, Philosophy, Roles, and Identity
Guest: Gordon Herbert, German National Team Head Coach
German National Team head coach Gordon Herbert joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on philosophy, roles and identity.
 
Herbert has extensive experience having coached throughout Europe, most notably in the German League and the Euroleague, and in the NBA as an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors, and the Georgian national team and the Canadian National Team. In September 2021, he was named head coach of the Germany national team. He guided the German team to a bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships.
 
He also has coaching titles, winning the Basketball Bundesliga: 2003–04, the FIBA Europe Cup: 2015–16, the French Cup: 2006–07 and the Finnish Cup: 2009.
 
Breakdown
1:00 - National Team
2:00 - Importance of Roles
4:00 - Organization and Creativity
6:00 - Concept of Spacing
10:00 - Triggers
14:00 - Offensive Advantage
16:00 - Adjustments on the Wings
21:00 - Influence of Hockey
25:00 - FACC Program
25:35 - 26:20 - Membership Sales Ad
28:00 - Three Factors
30:30 - Teaching Defense
33:00 - Player Enjoyment
36:00 - Defensive Decisions
39:00 - Special Situations
43:00 - Coaching with Nick Nurse
45:00 - Pace in Practice
52:00 - Sorting Roles to the Players
55:00 - Conclusion
 
Gordon Herbert’s Bio:
Bio/Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Herbert
 
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
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Guest: Joe Crispin, Rowan Head Coach
Rowan head coach Joe Crispin joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on offense wins and how to help players enjoy the game more.
 
As Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Rowan University, Joe Crispin has advanced the team to the NCAA Division III Championships and been selected as the NABC Atlantic District Coach of the Year and the D3Hoops.com Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. Prior to being named head coach, Joe spent two seasons as the assistant coach for both the Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams at Rowan University.
 
Joe Crispin is also the primary director for Crispin Basketball where he runs various camps, clinics, and club teams throughout the year. He focuses his energy on our overall development philosophy and programs. He enjoyed an extensive and successful playing career that has seen him play basketball for 28 different coaches.
 
Breakdown
1:00 - Offensive Tempo and Creating Pace
6:00 - Have Fun
11:00 - Mantra
13:00 - Basics of Walking
16:00 - Half and Full Court
18:00 - Structure the Workout
21:30 - Fundamentals
25:00 - Three-Leg Program
28:00 - Playing in the Triangle
32:00 - Constraint-Led Approach
35:19 - 36:04 - Membership Sales Ads
37:00 - Game Situations
39:30 - Constraints of the Shot Clock
42:00 - Security vs Pressure
49:30 - Importance of Recruiting
52:00 - Creating Decisions
55:30 - Changing Mentality
1:02:00 - Mindset for Success
1:07:00 - Part of the Process
 
Joe Crispin’s Bio:
Bio/Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Crispin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joecrispin
 
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
Immersion Videos:
Check out all our all-access practice and specialty clinics: https://www.immersionvideos.com