Recently, I got the opportunity to have a look behind the scenes with Bayern Munich and Coach Svetislav Pesic. I got to know Coach Pesic personally as the mentor of FIBA's FECC program, which played a crucial role in my…
March 2015, I got promoted to be FIBA-expert for the project “Development of National Sports Structure in Basketball” (DNSS), a collaboration between FIBA, the Basketball Federation of Albania (FSHB) and the National Olympic Committee of Albania (KOKSH), funded by Olympic…
Steve Kerr is the first rookie coach to clinch the NBA title since Pat Riley in 1982. Is it a complete surprise that he does so well or is it somehow written in his DNA to be an excellent coach?…
Fall 2013, I had the chance to be sent by FIBA for an NCAA apprenticeship as a coach at Saint Joseph's University. During my stay, I was more than happy to be invited at several practices of Brett Brown and…
Last week, I conducted a coaching clinic on defensive transition. Actually, it made me think about the fact that most coaches spend much more attention to offensive transition and how to create a lot of easy baskets in fastbreak, than…
Since a couple of years, NBA.com provides SportVU Player Tracking statistics data on their website. SportVU is a system of six cameras and software that measures the movements of all players and the ball on the court. This results in…
In 2013, I have met Coach Kemzura for the first time as he was a lecturer of the last stage of the FIBA Europe Coaching Certificate in Talinn. Kemzura is the former assistent of David Blatt (Cleveland Caveliers) and former…
December 2014, I spent a week in Doha (Qatar) as a clinician on behalf of FIBA. The Qatar Olympic Committee and the Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) gathered 50 sports teachers, joined by 70 local coaches of all levels. The clinics…
I just spent one week as a FIBA-instructor in Tunisia. In a collaboration between FIBA, Olympic Solidarity and the Tunisian Basketball federation (FTBB), I conducted a technical course Level 3 for 32 local coaches. Spread over 5 days I gave…