{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Ff131c303-8c7c-4aff-ad88-921554ffd7ef","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Episode 128: Joe Gallo, 2-3 Zone and Tactical Periodization","description":"Guest: Joe Gallo, Merrimack College Head Coach\n\n\n\n\nIn this week\u2019s basketball coaching conversation, Merrimack College head coach Joe Gallo joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss the 2-3 zone they have used to great success, and tactical periodization as it applies to basketball coaching. After leading Merrimack to a Northeast Conference regular-season title in 2020, its first season in Division I, Gallo was named conference coach of the year.\n\n\n\n\nGallo began his coaching career in 2005 as an assistant at Merrimack a year after he was a player for the Warriors. In 2010, Gallo was hired as an assistant under head coach Paul Cormier at Dartmouth. He was hired as an assistant under Andrew Toole at Robert Morris 2012. In 2016, Gallo was hired as head coach at his alma mater, Merrimack Gallo navigated Merrimack College to the best ever inaugural season in NCAA D1 basketball history.\n\n\n\n\nNo stranger to success, Gallo helped Merrimack become an NCAA D2 powerhouse. He completed a run of three NCAA Tournament appearances in three years in 2018-19 to put a bow on the program's Division II history. He also snapped a 19-year conference championship drought when he guided the program to the 2018-19 Northeast-10 Conference Championship. Gallo boasts a 61-34 (.642) career record, the most wins ever for a head coach over their first three seasons.\n\n\n\n\nBreakdown\n\n1:00 - Make Chaos\n\n3:00 - Free Zone\n\n7:00 - Techniques and Concepts that Applies in the Zone\n\n9:00 - Recovery vs Punctures\n\n11:00 - Closeouts\n\n12:00 - High Posts and Short Corners\n\n17:00 - Dribble Penetration\n\n20:00 - Philosophy about Limiting Threes\n\n22:00 - Shooting vs Zone\n\n24:30 - Making Better Decisions\n\n27:30 - Man to Man Defense\n\n29:30 - Train and Be Great at What You Do\n\n31:30 - Play Calls\n\n33:00 - Developing Players\n\n35:00 - Doing Workouts\n\n37:00 - Tactical Periodization\n\n44:00 - Collective Intentionally\n\n48:30 - Perceptual and Decision-Making Repetition\n\n50:30 - Patterns\n\n53:00 - Conclusion\n\n\n\n\nJoe Gallo\u2019s Bio\n\nBio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gallo_(basketball)\n\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/joeygall0\n\n\n\n\nBasketball Immersion\n\nWebsite: http://basketballimmersion.com/\n\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en\n\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion\n\nFacebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion\n\n\n\n\nBetOnline Website:\n\nWebsite: www.betonline.ag\n\n\n\n\nBest in the West Video Series\n\nBest in the West Website: http://bestinthewestclinic.com/\n\nSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d72df759-b2ab-4e97-89f1-af0fd17eefe6/135e2835370674a32c6c6235a6a3e54f4f6110ae3868283f018ade21bc307ab.jpeg"}