Pascal Meurs, Basketball Is Not Pre-Programmed Guest: Pascal Meurs, European Professional Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, European professional coach Pascal Meurs join the podcast to discuss moving away from preprogrammed drills and applying analytics in simple ways. Meurs is a professional basketball coach with experience at the highest level in Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Luxembourg. Pascal is an expert in advanced basketball analytics with a Phd in mathematics. As a skilled speaker on coaching clinics, he has been invited to three different continents.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Why He Don’t Like Pre-Program Drills? 2:20 - Things that we can do to Make our Players Smarter 4:00 - Alternative to the 11-Man Drill 5:40 - Passing Drill is Primary in their Era 7:15 - Teaching Players How to Relate Practice to the Game 9:00 - Things to do to Help Players Train Defensive Decision Making 11:00 - Loads for Learning Drills 13:00 - Assessment Dictates Tomorrow’s Emphasis of the Drill 14:30 - Development of Coaching Both Side at the Same Time 16:30 - Doing a Lot of 1-on-1 18:30 - Limit a Defender to Emphasize Offense/Defense Decision Making 20:00 - Traditional 1-on-1 Drills, Limiting in terms of Development 21:47 - Creating Game Situation 23:00 - Decision Making Off the Ball on 1-on-1 Progressions 24:00 - Twice a Day Program 25:00 - Starting 5-on-5 on a Stationary 26:50 - Defense: Intensity and Communication is Important 29:40 - Terminology Used in Recovery on Ball Screen 31:30 - Personal Stats that He Valued as a Coach 33:00 - “The more passes, the more chances to have buckets” 36:00 - Defending Harder 37:30 - Other Ways we can Measure Playing Hard 39:00 - Pace 42:30 - Win Games by Playing Slower 44:00 - Pace and Efficiency in Offense 47:00 - Decision Making on doing Faster or Slower Pace of Playing 49:00 - Analytics Coaches are Missing out On 50:50 - Marry The Analytics with Video 52:30 - Things to do when Self-Scouting 54:00 - Closing Remarks Advice to Coaches 56:00 - Conclusion   Pascal Meurs’ Bio Bio: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Meurs Twitter: https://twitter.com/PascalMeurs?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pascalmeurs/ Website: https://www.pascalmeurs.com/   Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.