Eric Musselman on Competitive Staffs, Off-Ball Movement, and Creating Momentum { Arkansas }

Slappin’ Glass sits down with the Head Coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, Eric Musselman. The trio discuss building career and team momentum, creating competitive staffs, off-ball cutting and screening, and play a new game of “Over or Under?”, where they dive into player rotations, paint touches, and “bench energy”. A fantastic interview from one of college basketball’s best coaches.

Eric Musselman: Inside the Episode

Arkansas MBB Head Coach, Eric Musselman, had his Razorback’s in the Elite 8 this year before falling to eventual National Champion, Baylor. Coach Musselman has had a long and successful career during stops in the NBA, G-League, Nevada, and now Arkansas. Known for his energy and basketball IQ, Coach Musselman brought both as we dove into a range of basketball and leadership topics on the podcast including:

  • Building Career, Team, and Program Momentum
    • Thoughts on riding times of personal and professional growth, as well as learning from the difficult ones.
  • Creating Competitive Staffs
    • Why it’s important to create and foster an environment of competitiveness within a staff.
  • Off-Ball Cutting, Spacing, and Screening Concepts
    • What Coach Musselman is teaching and studying during the off-season when it comes to off-ball movement.
  • PNR Defense – Guarding the Screener
    • Foot angles and thoughts on guarding the PNR in different locations.
  • “Over/Under?!” – A brand new game (note: different than “Overrated/Underrated?!”)
    • We discuss Coach Musselman’s sideline “step count”, bench rotation sizes, and paint touches.
  • The best compliment someone can give him about his team
  • What he learned from his father, longtime NBA Coach Bill Musselman.