I had a great opportunity last week to sit down with the coaches from the Lebron James Skills Academy for a chalk talk, including Kevin Eastman of the Boston Celtics and Kenny Atkinson from the New York Knicks. It was a great experience to see what and how they teach at the NBA level.
This was the first time I had a chance to see Coach Eastman in person and he is amazing. From the start I could just tell that he was an incredibly smart guy. What he does so great is figuring out terms and phrases that make teaching points easy to understand and easy to remember. He went over some teaching points for defensive responsibility and the pick and roll, which were so simple, but easy to understand.
Coach Eastman is holding a coaching clinic in Las Vegas July 20-21 at the Palms. If you can make the Coaching U Live clinic I highly recommend it!
From Coach Eastman…
“Coming up on July 20 and 21 in Las Vegas is our Coaching U LIVE, a coaching event that will far surpass the traditional clinic in format and content. Our goal is to give you 700 teaching points, basketball nuggets, coaching tips, and other quality basketball stuff! We actually look at Coaching U Live as a coaching experience — not just another clinic! But most of all we want this to be the best and most basketball coaching information you have ever gotten in one setting.”
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The founder of Mike Lee Basketball Services (formerly Playmakers Basketball), Mike is known throughout the country for individual player skill development. He has been a speaker at several events and has also recently authored several instructional workout DVDs, which will be released over the next year. Titles out right now include, 25 Killer Scoring Moves, Secrets of Unstoppable Guard Play and Secrets of Unstoppable Shooting. Since 2006 Mike Lee Basketball has trained over 3,600 boys and girls through their skill development programs. Dozens of players that Mike has worked with have gone on to play collegiate basketball, some at the NCAA DI level. In addition to his own basketball services, Mike is a Nike Girls Skills Trainer and a member of the Nike sponsored, Ganon Baker Basketball.
From 2001-2006, Mike participated as a player and assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. According to Men’s Head Coach Ed Andrist, “If everyone worked as hard as Mike we would win a national championship every year”. As an assistant coach he was responsible for scouting reports and individual instruction for the Blue Devils, who achieved the best record in school history, as well as earned the program’s first ever NCAA tournament berth. During the fall of 2006 he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Coach K and Duke University Leadership Conference in Durham, NC. In December of 2006 he graduated from the University of Wiconsin-Stout with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a self-planned concentration in Basketball Entrepreneurship.
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