Stan Van Gundy, Basketball Philosophy and Tactics Guest: Stan Van Gundy, NBA Analyst and Former NBA Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, former NBA head coach Stan Van Gundy joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss basketball philosophy and tactics. Currently an NBA analyst, Stan Van Gundy most recently served as the head coach and president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2014 to 2018. From 2003 to 2005, he was the head coach of the Miami Heat. Van Gundy then coached the Orlando Magic for five seasons from 2007 to 2012, leading them to the 2009 NBA Finals.   Breakdown: 1:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Learning by Playing Philosophy 3:30 - Full Court Work 5:00 - Philosophy of Providing Feedback 6:30 - NBA Players Want to be Better 7:30 - Discussing Criticisms to NBA Players 9:30 - Need to be Specific than Generalize 10:30 - The Term “We” 12:30 - How He Handle Struggles for a Player 13:30 - Figuring Why Players Cannot Execute 15:15 - How We Help Players Accept their Roles 16:00 - Need to have Honest Conversation to the Players 17:00 - Positive on Giving Roles to the Players 18:30 - Limit of a Coach because of the Tradition 21:30 - Judgement of Coaches Plans 23:30 - “Coach the Why” 24:30 - Coach Game Day Card that He have in Every Game 27:00 - Main Part of his Game Day Shoot Around 29:00 - Some Type of Their Recall 30:30 - Strategies to help with Timeout Focus and Understanding 32:00 - One Thing for Assistant Coach 34:00 - Strength and Weaknesses of his Staffs 36:00 - Stay Down or Challenge Shots by Leaving our Feet? 37:30 - Balance Keeping Elite Players 40:00 - Defend a Mid Post Up Strategies 41:30 - Situational Denial 43:30 - Extend the Catch 44:50 - Perfect NBA Defense 46:50 - Switching Things 49:00 - Limit Threes 50:30 - Best Methods of Handling Dribble Hand Offs 53:00 - His Term Use in Practice 55:00 - Is it able to drop and Ice Dribble Hand Offs? 57:30 - Forcing Direction at Other Levels? 59:30 - His Philosophy on Pick&Roll 1:01:00 - Fundamentals, Fundamentals, Fundamentals 1:03:00 - Methods to Evaluate his Own Coaching 1:06:00 - Decisions to Careful On 1:08:00 - Taking Criticisms 1:09:30 - You’re Going to Get Criticize 1:10:30 - Evaluating Objectively 1:12:00 - Final Thoughts   Stan Van Gundy’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Van_Gundy   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.