Building Better Basketball

We are going to do something new here on the podcast. We are going to have a guest on for the first time, but right out the gate we are saying, they are coming back for a second episode cause we are not getting it all done this morning! Podcast fanatics will know her name, the crazy band of people who like hearing me talk (shoutout my mum) will know her from when I appeared on her podcast and some of you I guarantee will have read one of her papers or like one of her tweets duting her love hate relationship with that platform! Alex Lascu is, and these are her words; a skill acquisition amateur, Adjunct(get that dictionary out) at the University of Canberra and Learning and Capability specialist at WA Cricket. She exists in the gap between research and practice in sport coaching, in the hopes of one day bringing these worlds together. The reason I love talking to Alex and we exchange some random messages I promise you is she is a generalist, both in sport (15 different sports) and research (2 faculties, 8 topics).
 
All that said and done, welcome to what is the most unstructured episode of building better basketball in history!

Finishing off the Olympic theme we reached out to someone international who had a lot of interactions with all 3 Australian sides in Paris. Today we are joined by Ron Yeung of Basketball Canada. Ron has been heavily involved in the sport of basketball for over 10 years.Over this time, he has served in a number of important roles responsible for the strategic development and implementation of grassroots basketball in communities across Canada.Ron worked with the Toronto Raptors from 2000-2006, where he was responsible for the successful growth and operation of the Raptorball Youth Leagues and JR. NBA/WNBA. In 2007, he was commissioned by Canada Basketball to design and develop Steve Nash Youth Basketball (SNYB), a national youth development program aimed to grow the game at the grassroots level. Now Ron is the Head of Domestic & 3x3 Development.

Some of you will know todays guest from her work on the Basketball court with the Geelong Supercats but we have her on today to talk about the amazing work she is doing off the court with Welcoming Australia. One of the key programs is Welcome to the Game, a program dedicated to support children and young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds who live with disabilities, autism and additional support needs to access and feel a sense of belonging in their local community sport settings, along with their families.
 
Kate Thomas- NCC Presentation https://youtu.be/v-4e5bPpp9Y?si=zzw5RI9aSBhISPjG 
Inclusion Graphic- https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cvzg3as8t46vgduuv3fzp/Inclusion.png?rlkey=cjby1fds00vxh2tn9hfx18glq&st=ybixezgm&dl=0 
Welcoming Clubs - https://welcomingclubs.org.au/

Welcome back to the new season of Building Better Basketball, the Basketball Australia Coaches Podcast. We took a little break for the Olympics but we are back and we needed to have a guest that was on the ground. We needed a guest with profile. A guest who like Madonna and Prince is known by just one name. We needed Junior! Junior is the Team Lead and Manager of the Boomers to give him his full title but his job actually covers much more than just those 3 words as we are about to find out. 

Boomers Assistant Coach and San Antonio Spurs Assistant Coach Matthew Nielsen presented at the BALLIN Coaching clinic on offensive spacing.
Full Video available on Basketball Australia YouTube https://youtu.be/sHQyZwXP488

Opals Assistant Coach and Townsville Fire Head Coach Shannon Seebohm presented at the BALLIN Coaching clinic on team defensive principles.
Full Video available on Basketball Australia YouTube https://youtu.be/sHQyZwXP488

Rounding out the on-court element of the 2024  @BasketballAus
National Coaches Conference with our international guest @JoerikMichiels
talking developing shooters
 
A video recording of the session will be released later. Other oncourt sessions will be released over the next few weeks.

Aneeka talks about physical preparation for young players and her experience with the COE and the national teams in this lecture theatre session.
 
A video recording of the session will be released later. Other oncourt sessions will be released over the next few weeks.

6-time @NBL champion and two-time Olympian @CJBruton talking all things shooting.
A video recording of the session will be released later. Other oncourt sessions will be released over the next few weeks.
 

Former AIS Basketball Athlete and now working for The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport, Kate Thomas presented in this theatre session on Healing through sport 
A video recording of the session will be released later. Other oncourt sessions will be released over the next few weeks.