Guest: Ben Taylor, Founder of Thinking Basketball
The founder of Thinking Basketball Ben Taylor joins the Basketball Podcast to challenge and dive deeper into new and old basketball concepts that can help our coaching.
Ben Taylor is the founder of the Thinking Basketball YouTube channel, podcast and author of Thinking Basketball the book. In all his platforms, Taylor goes deeper on basketball analysis, history, philosophy and theory. Thinking Basketball challenges a number of common beliefs about the game by taking a deep dive into the patterns and history of the NBA. He explores how certain myths arose while using our own cognition as a window into the game's popular narratives.
He is a behavioral scientist who loves basketball. He has had his blog in some form or another since 2011. Since then he has developed a bunch of historical metrics, hand-tracked hundreds of games, tried to start a basketball data company, written a book about basketball and cognition, and started creating podcasts / YouTube content about the NBA.
Breakdown
1:00 - Difficult Concepts
5:00 - Cognitive Scientist
8:00 - Applied Science
11:00 - Not Connecting Perception
13:30 - Data Gathering
15:00 - Evaluating Their Defense
17:00 - Old vs New School Thinking
20:00 - Advocating Coaches
22:00 - Lob Pass
24:30 - Passing
28:30 - Yoga
31:17 - 32:00 - Membership Sales Ads
32:00 - Split Cut
34:00 - The Right Structure
38:00 - Coaching Perspective
42:00 - Concept of pre Switching
46:00 - Adaptability
50:00 - Overload Concept
55:00 - NBA Skill Sets
59:00 - Goal of Offense
1:02:00 - Empowering Players
Ben Taylor’s Bio:
Website: https://thinkingbasketball.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elgee35
Podcast: Thinking Basketball - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinking-basketball/id1428290303?mt=2
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/thinkingbasketball
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