Slappin’ Glass sits down with legendary Team USA Basketball and 42 Year High School Head Coach, Don Showalter, to discuss all things practice/practice planning, what separates the great players/coaches from the pack, press defenses, and the elements of High School Head Coaching he’d most delegate during the always fun “Star, Sub, or Sit?!”.
Inside the Episode: Don Showalter
Coach Don Showalter spent 42 seasons as a High School Head Coach before transitioning to his current work with Team USA basketball, and we were fortunate to have the opportunity to sit down with him to discuss both of those worlds in this week’s newest Slappin’ Glass Podcast. Coach Showalter is a lifelong student of the game and shared his wealth of knowledge on:
- Practice Planning
- How to plan efficient practices for Pre-Season, Mid-Season, and the Post-Season
- When Practices Go Bad… what to do and how to fix them.
- Skill Development
- Why it’s so important to continue developing player’s skills throughout the entire season
- His favorite ways to transfer skill development to game situations
- Coaching Great Players
- What the best players in the world do differently
- “Start, Sub, or Sit”
- On Head Coaching duties… Budgeting, Scheduling, or Fundraising
- DDM, Flex, or Princeton Offense
- And more…