Slappin’ Glass sits down with the Assistant Coach of UNC Charlotte/Head Coach on New Zealand’s U19 National Team, Aaron Fearne. The trio dive into specific culture building techniques, defining player roles, special situations, “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”, and dissect all the details of Coach Fearne’s “Tagging Up” Offensive Rebounding System.
Inside the Episode: Aaron Fearne
We talked about a lot more than Tagging Up with Coach Fearne in this week’s latest Slappin’ Glass Podcast. As mentioned above, Coach Fearne is highly regarded as a full 360 thinker and teacher of the game, and we were happy to explore many of those areas during our conversation including:
- Building Player-Led Cultures
- Techniques and Practices used in Australia and New Zealand to build dynamic cultures all year long
- How they form “Leadership Groups” and who’s on them
- How they define team characteristics and goals
- Their Post-Game Analysis exercises
- Tagging Up: See Above!
- “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”
- Rugby, Cricket, or Australian Rules Football
- Attacking Ice Coverages: Flip the Screen, Release and Throw back to DHO, Attack Baseline and Hit Roller
- Special Play Packages: SLOB, BLOB, Full Court Press Breaks
- Playing through the Post: Top of the Key, Elbow, or Block
- Handling Stress and Adversity as a Coach