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:

1. The rise to head coach.
2. What are his programs core values.
3. How is the recruiting base for NSU in Virginia?
4. How do you plan for your conference and NCAA Tournament runs?
5. How do you keep players mentally prepared when you are playing opponents 4-5 times?
6. What is your biggest flaw as a coach and how are you working on improving it?
7. Have you heard more from higher level recruits now given the social climate and NSU being a HBCU?
8. What is your opinion on the idea that HBCU coaches get overlooked by schools outside of HBCU conferences for jobs?
9. How do you monitor effort?
10. How much practice time do you spend on running set offenses?
11. What are the teams you are studying now?
12. 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:

1. How tough is it to implement program philosophies when you start over at year 1 every year?
2. How do you create balance on your team?
3. Why did you want to make the jump from HS to JUCO?
4. How are you building genuine relationships with players in a short period of time?
5. How have you been able to reflect on your coaching when you look back at yourself in Last Chance U?
6. How did you give space for the kids social, emotional, and mental needs during the COVID-19 shutdown?
7. What have you learned about yourself moving from a high school head coach to a JUCO assistant?
8. What have you learned about recruiting being on the HS side and now being on the college side?
9. 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:

1. Why do you think it is so important to share the game with everyone?
2. What opponents have you learned the most from?
3. What helped you earn the opportunity to move from assistant coach to head coach at High Point?
4. How did your relationship with the players change when your role changed from assistant to head coach?
5. What part of being a head coach was surprisingly most difficult?
6. What do practices in your program look like?  How are game day shoot-arounds structured?
7. What is your biggest flaw as a coach?
8. How do you think outside the box as a coach?
9. What do you emphasize as a program?
10. When things aren't going well, what is the most important thing to do for your team?
11. How do you deal with conflict within your program?
12. 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:

1. Bronx Basketball
2. Becoming the All-time leading scorer in HS
3. Scholarship offers & choosing Ohio State University
4. Adjusting to College Ball
5. Transferring to St. Peter's University
6. Party Time!!!!
7. Playing Overseas
8. Becoming a Coach
9. Developing a coaching philosophy
10. 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:

1. What teams are you studying now and what are the actions that most intrigue you?
2. How do you determine what you will use from the film that you watch?
3. How do you turnkey the concepts you have picked up to your team in practice?
4. How did you use Army's advantages in your recruiting pitch?
5. Were you able to use the transfer portal at the U.S. Military Academy?
6. How did you get your start and make your way in the field of coaching?
7. How did you prepare for the unique Patriot League season this year?
8. What did you notice prepping for back to back games verse the same opponent?
9. What is your philosophy in the first 8 seconds of the shot clock and then after those 8 seconds?
10. Looking at your practice time, how much is spent doing 5 v. 0 vs. 5 v. 5
11. 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

Basketball Coaches Roundtable welcomes Elliot Steinmetz as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Steinmetz is the head coach of Yeshiva University in NYC and currently has the longest winning streak in the NCAA.  The Maccabee's ended the season undefeated ranked third in the nation.  

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable

1. Do people still think it is strange that Yeshiva University is winning?
2. What is the secret to your Man-to-Man Defense?
3. What is your press offense?
4. How has your coaching style changed since you started your career?
5. What should people know about the Yeshiva basketball high school league?
6. What makes the Yeshiva offense so special?
7. How do you adapt your motion offense to play against a zone defense?
8. What are you talking to your team about pre-game and at halftime?
9. How have you and your team dealt with Anti-Semitism?
10. What does the program and the University need to do to get to the next level?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
• Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS, Bronx, NY & Author of Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School 

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast welcomes Matt Kingsley as the guest the of the roundtable.  Coach Kingsley is the Associate Head Coach at Yale University.  In the fifteen years, Coach Kingsley has been instrumental in making Yale a powerhouse in Ivy League.

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable

1. How did Yale use the time without a season to move the program forward?
2. Where there any program overhauls that the coaching staff looked at during this time?
3. How do you view the NYC Ivy League Prep league?
4. How do you prepare for the big game?  A walk-through of a NCAA game scout.
5. What are your thoughts on the addition of the Ivy League tournament?
6. What are the analytics that your looking at during halftime and after the game?
7. How do you add value to your dummy offense during practice?
8. What is your ice offense?
9. How do you attack an odd-man front zone?
10. What are some of the positives and negatives of running a double-drag screen in transition?
11. How does Yale differentiate themselves from the other schools in the super competitive Ivy League?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
• Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS, Bronx, NY - Author of Pounding The Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School  

Basketball Coaches Roundtable welcomes Chris Caputo as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Caputo is the Associate Head Coach at the University of Miami.  Chris just concluded his tenth season at the University of Miami and has been instrumental in the success of the program.  

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable

1. What in your coaching style can you attribute to your high school coach, the legendary NYC coach Jack Curran from Archbishop Molloy?
2. What is your perception of the transfer portal?
3. How do you incorporate discipline into the program and your coaching?
4. What are the teaching points for defending the 3-pt shot in transition?
5. How would you explain University of Miami basketball?
6. How do you balance your basketball job and family?
7. What are you looking for in a student-athlete with Division 1 aspirations?
8. What halftime defensive analytics are you looking at?
9. What is the biggest challenge facing college coaches today and what is the solution?
10. How are you approaching the upcoming year with athletes getting a "free" year of eligibility? How does this effect your incoming class?
11. What are some simple rules to attack a 2-3 zone and a packline defense?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Alex Mirabel - Head Coach - St. Peter's Prep - Jersey City, NJ & Head Coach U18 Dominican Republic National Team
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS - Brooklyn, NY
• Chris Ballerini - Head Coach - DeWitt Clinton HS - Bronx, NY
• Dan Murphy - Special Assistant - Monmouth University - West Long Branch, NJ

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Episode #23 welcomes Hall of Famer Chamique Holdsclaw as the guest of the roundtable.  Ms. Holdsclaw was the #1 overall draft pick in the 1999 WNBA draft.  She was apart of 3 national championship teams at the University of Tennessee under Hall of Fame head coach Pat Summitt.  She also was a gold medal winner during the 2000 Sydney Olympics.  Chamique Holdsclaw is one of the most accomplished basketball players of all-time.

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable

1. What is the work you are doing now?
2. Is the modern game to dependent on analytics?
3. What are somethings you can tell athletes now about how to be successful?
4. How has traveling the world taken the place of basketball for you now?
5. Players hearing coaches as "coaching" versus hearing coaching as "criticism"
6. How did Coach Pat Summitt foster a a relationship with you?
7. How did you mental prepared for big games?
8. Using visualization to prepare for games.
9. Finishing the sentence... "I will not be a coach on a basketball team because....?"
10. What were you striving for growing up when you were working so hard on your game?
11. When did you know that you were really good?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn NY
• Chris Ballerini - Head Coach - DeWitt Clinton HS, Bronx, NY
• Dan Murphy - Special Assistant - Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

Welcome to the Basketball Coaches Roundtable podcast.  Episode 22 has Chris Dorsey the head coach at D3 Centenary University in Shreveport, LA as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Dorsey is in his fourth season as the head coach of the Gents and is the conference defending champions.  Coach Dorsey was also named the 2019-2020 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable

1. Coach Dorsey's background as a coach.
2. 5-out offense and creating double gaps and players understanding their role.
3. What analytics are you looking at, that help drive your program?
4. What is the measure of a successful offensive possession?
5. How do you recruit in a football state with only two Division 3 programs?
6. How did you end up at Centenary?
7. What is your biggest flaw as a coach and how have you worked to change it?
8. Why do you believe so strongly in the 5-out Princeton offense and what are your favorite actions within it?
9. What other teams are you studying these days?
10. Who and how are you recruiting these days?
11. What is your rating system for recruits?
12. What are you looking for in a recruits highlight reel?
13. How do you manage your offensive shot clock?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS - Brooklyn, NY
• Chris Ballerini - Head Coach - DeWitt Clinton HS - Bronx, NY
• Mike King - Head Coach - Community Health HS - Manhattan, NY
• Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS - Bronx, NY Author of Pounding the Rock

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast with guest Corin 'Tiny' Adams.  Coach Adams is an Assistant coach at Loyola University Maryland and is one of two female assistant coaches on the men's side of NCAA Division 1.  Tiny was a well decorated player at Morgan State where she is the all-time leading scorer, assists and steals in school history.  After graduating Adams headed abroad where she would continue her career at the professional level with stops in Portugal, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Chile, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Greece and Puerto Rico.  She also an entrepreneur and author.

Topics discussed at the Roundtable

• What is the biggest mistake you made and what did you do to overcome it?
• What is the biggest difference between being a video coordinator position and the assistant coaching position you are in now?
• How do you put together your scouting reports?
• Do you feel added pressure being a female coach being on the men's side?
• How has the role as a entrepreneur shifted since taking you position as assistant coach?
• What was your experience of being player/coach like and how did it lead you back to getting a degree in Journalism?
• What are you writing in your journals?
• What are the stats you keep on the bench?
• What are the principles that will be the foundation of your team when you become a head coach?
• What are some of the behaviors as a coach that you don't want to be?
• How much has growing up in Brooklyn shaped the player and coach you are now?
• What is your biggest weakness as a coach?
• How has your relationship with Edniesha Curry of University of Maine evolved as the only two female coaches on the men's side of Division 1?
• Do you think someone that followed your path could make it as far as you did in today's game and era?
• How did your relationship with your mom help you with getting through your setbacks?
• What is the title of the final chapter in your book?

Sitting at the Roundtable

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

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast welcomes Edniesha Curry as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Curry is an Assistant Coach for the University of Maine men's basketball team.  Prior to joining the men's program at Maine, Coach Curry worked in the NBA G League, NBA Draft Combine and overseas in Vietnam, China, Israel among others.   A former standout at the University of Oregon during her playing days, she was drafted into the WNBA and was an accomplished player for the Phoenix Mercury and LA Sparks along with teams overseas.

Topics discussed at the Roundtable

• Pressure felt being a woman coaching on the men's side of NCAA Division 1
• How white coaches can be more of an ally for woman coaches of color?
• Using the legacy of her father to shape her own legacy.
• Difference between coaching both the woman's and men's programs at the same institution.
• Building culture at the University of Maine
• What are the most important analytics that you for and use in coaching?
• What are the new analytical numbers that people are focusing on?
• What did you learn about yourself and basketball from your time overseas?
• What books are you reading now that are helping you shape yourself?
• What would be the title of the next chapter in your life?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
• Sean Clores - Assistant Coach - Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
• Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS, Bronx, NY Author of Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams & Real Life in a Bronx HS

Basketball Coaches Roundtable welcomes Matt Doherty as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Doherty was a National Champion as a player at the University of North Carolina and was the 2001 AP National Coach of the Year, while coaching his alma mater.  In 2003, he lost his job as a head coach and begin his journey into becoming a better leader.  He has just released a book about his self-discovery called Rebound: From Pain to Passion, Leadership Lessons Learned.  

Topics discussed at the Roundtable:

1. What trends in the game would you use now if you were taking over a basketball program?
2. How did you incorporate past knowledge as a championship player in developing your practice plans?
3. What is leadership knowledge that all coaches should know?
4. Art of Coaching v. Science of Coaching?
5. How does a coach build positive player to player relationships?
6. Practicing and playing alongside one of the all-time greats.
7. As a player how did you make sure practice was more difficult than the game?
8. Character v. Talent?

Sitting at the Roundtable:

• Ben Newman - Host
• Dan Murphy - Special Assistant - Monmouth University - West Long Branch, NJ
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS - Brooklyn, NY

Welcome to the Basketball Coaches Roundtable podcast.  This episode we have Tyler Simms as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Simms is entering his 2nd season as the Head Coach at Clark University, which is part one of the most competitive Division 3 conferences in the country (New England Woman's & Man's Athletic Conference).  Prior to landing at Clark University, Coach Simms also coached at D1 (Brown & Siena), D2 (Mercyhurst), D3 (Trinity College) as well as the High School Prep level.

Topics Discussed

• Coaching journey and what brought Coach Simms to Clark University
• Impression of NYC basketball & recruitment of NYC players
• What type of player Coach Simms is looking at Clark
• Does your Offense and Defense need to work together?
• Studying other programs & what are the new trends?
• Biggest flaw as a coach & how is the pandemic helped to work on it?
• How to bridge the gap between college coaches and high school coaches.
• What needs to be done to get Clark University back to the top of the NEWMAC?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS - Brooklyn, NY
• Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS - Bronx, NY - Author of Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx HS   

Basketball Coaches Roundtable podcast episode 17 welcomes Coach John Alesi, the head coach of Baruch College.  Coach Alesi is entering his 9th season with Baruch College and has led the team into the post-season in 7 of the last 8 seasons.

Topics Discussed at the Roundtable

• What does Baruch do differently that has led to the program success?
• Developing an organized program philosophy.
• Biggest flaw as a coach and using the time off to self-reflect.
• Advise for HS coaches in helping students in their recruitment during a pandemic.
• How does Baruch identify recruits.
• What is the team doing now during the pandemic to prepare for next season?
• Defensive principles and the implementation of the defense.
• Biggest take-aways from watching visiting teams practice.
• Final 5-seconds of the 2019 CUNY Championship game.
• How do you want to be remembered by your players?

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Chris Ballerini - Head Coach - DeWitt Clinton HS - Bronx, NY
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS - Brooklyn, NY
• Jay Griffin - Assistant Coach - John Jay College - New York, NY

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast welcomes Mark Jerome as the guest of the roundtable.  Coach Mark Jerome is the Head Coach of Beacon High School, a public high school in NYC.  Coach Jerome has been a long time AAU coach in NYC and holds shares in a company called Locker Room Access where he hosts The JWilly Podcast.

Topics Discussed

• Creating a winning program in a Manhattan public school
• Development of his offensive and defensive style
• Coaching his sons
• Watching others coach his sons
• What to focus on when coming back from the COVID shutdown.
• Guidance through the recruitment process

Sitting at the roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host
• Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS - Bronx, NY
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS - Brooklyn, NY
• Dan Murphy - Special Assistant - Monmouth University - West Long Branch, NJ

Basketball Coaches Roundtable podcast welcomes Alex Mirabel. Coach Mirabel is the head coach of St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City, NJ and the head coach of the U17 Dominican Republic National team.  

Topics Discussed at the roundtable:

1. Program Development
2. Balancing family life and coaching aspirations
3. Attracting talent to St. Peter's Prep
4. Getting team ready with short preseason
5. Moving from assistant to a head coach
6. Role with NJBCA
7. Difference between FIBA and HS
8. Biggest flaw as a coach
9. Using hand signals v. calling out plays
10. Shot clock in NJ and stall ball in NYC
11. Where do you see yourself going?
12. Do you feel pressure coaching high major players.

Sitting at the roundtable:

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
• Chris Ballerini - Head Coach - DeWitt Clinton HS, Bronx, NY
• Dan Murphy - Special Assistant - Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
• Kevin Spies - Head Coach - Middletown North, Middletown, NJ

Basketball Coaches Roundtable episode 14 welcomes three of the top boys basketball coaches in the New York City Public School Athletic League (PSAL) Marc Skelton (Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS - 3x City Champion, NYS Federation Champion), Elle Greene (BCAM HS, NYC Champion, NYS Federation Semi-finalist) and Chris Ballerini (DeWitt Clinton HS & former American Studies HS). for a true roundtable basketball discussion.  

Topics Discussed

• NYC Basketball
• Smaller schools competing vs bigger schools
• Coaching in lopsided games
• Sideline Demeanor
• Off-season approach
• Coming back from the COVID stoppage
• Various NYC HS gyms

Sitting at the Roundtable

• Ben Newman - Host

Basketball Coaches Roundtable welcomes Ryan Hyland.  Coach Hyland is starting his 7th year as Head Coach of John Jay College in New York.  When hired at age 25 he was the youngest Head Coach in the NCAA at any level and has transformed the John Jay program into an 18+ wins per season.  After the 2019-2020 season Coach Hyland was honored as an Under Armour top 30 under 30 coach.

Topics discussed at the roundtable

• Changing the program around and how he got the head coaching job?
• Being named to the Under Armour  30 under 30 list.
• Advantages of being a young head coach.
• Staying positive and poised on the sidelines.
• Where does John Jay need to go to win their goal of a National Championship?
• What do you tell your team after a heartbreaking playoff loss?
• What is a game in your coaching career that you can't let go of?
• What is your winning formula?
• What is the structure for your 35-second offensive possession?
• How do you structure practice and when do you stop it to make teaching points?
• What do you chart in practice and games?
• What is your defensive philosophy?
• Advice for a new head coach on how to utilize assistants.

Sitting at the Roundtable

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