Slappin’ Glass sits down this week with South Dakota St. MBB Head Coach, Eric Henderson! Coach Henderson is coming off a season where he led South Dakota St. to a 30 win season and an NCAA Tournament bid, and the trio dive into his thoughts on high efficiency three point shooting, empowering staff, and talk pain points of forcing left and bench substitution decisions during the always fun “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”
Inside the Episode
What a fun week we had on the podcast as we had the chance to sit down with South Dakota State MBB Head Coach, Eric Henderson! Fresh off a 30 win season and NCAA Tournament appearance, Coach Henderson was generous with his thoughts on some very specific and interesting topics including:
- The Art and Science of High Efficiency Threes: SDSU finished #1 in the nation last year in Offensive 3PFG%, and we spent a lot of time digging into how Coach Henderson teaches his teams to find, shot, and make specific types of threes. We talked about paint touches, analytics, not running plays, a shooter’s mentality, player development, and much more.
- Empowering Staff: Coach Henderson was terrific in speaking about how he views empowering staff members to create accountability, buy-in, and growth opportunities.
- “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”: We went pretty deep during SSS on the pain points of “weaking” or “shading left”, as well bench rotations.