Tag: FIBA

U16 FIBA Americas: Pictures Speak Louder Than Words

Wrapping up the 2009 U16 FIBA Americas Championship in Mendoza, Argentina, by sharing some pics from our time there. These will do far greater justice to the experience of this national team than anything I could ever put in written word… 2009 U16 Canadian Men’s National Team, Bronze Medal (back l-r) Sefu Bernard, Kriby Schepp, …

Entrenador Mario DeSisti

A coach asked me two weeks ago what was it that caused me to start thinking about coaching and player development differently. There are many things, needless to say; however, one significant contributor was a Italian basketball coach by the name of Mario DeSisti who I was fortunate to have met and learned from in …

FIBA Guidelines For Officials: Traveling

Quick follow up on my previous post on the traveling as it’s called in the FIBA game. Here’s a video posted by Basketball Manitoba but published by FIBA for the development of officials. The points of emphasis when making a determination are: If a player starts a dribble while moving, the pivot foot may not …

X’s and O’s With “Master” Coach MacKay

If you’ve followed along with my blogs, you’ll know that I have often referenced Mike MacKay, Manager Coach Education and Development for Canada Basketball, in them (ad nauseum!). Well, he’s finally been brought into the millennium and is blogging his thoughts. Check out X’s and O’s with Mike Mackay. Well worth the invest of time, …

Online Resources: FIBA Coaching Library

FIBA has recently launched an online coach’s library. (I think I might have mentioned this before on my blog, but I was just asked by another coach for a good resource and thought it important to highlight it again). In addition to drills and a video database to support the written explanations, the FIBA Coaching …

A Few Random Coaching Bullet Points

Here are a few online basketball resources and ideas that I thought others would benefit from… Spanish Basketball Federation Here’s a link the to Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB). Click on ‘Area Deportiva’ … click on ‘Entrenadores’ … click on right side menu anything that has the word ‘Formacion.’ The technical tactical stuff is under ‘Formacion …

Basketball Lessons From ‘Iron Chef’

I love cooking shows. And… I think that much about coaching can be related to being a top chef. For years, a program called Iron Chef was my late night TV fix. (I’m talking the original Asian version with English voice over. The sensationalized US version just isn’t the same). During college, at 12:30am that …