Slappin’ Glass sits down with the 2020 DIII Coach of the Year from Swarthmore College, Landry Kosmalski. The trio discuss the value of a hard, disciplined warm-up, playing with pace and flow in transition, spacing and playing with two bigs, and talk stats that matter, energy plays, Horns Sets, and more during the always fun “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”.
Landry Kosmalski – Inside the Episode
This week on the Slappin’ Glass Podcast we were honored to be joined by on of the best coaches in the country, Swarthmore College’s Landry Kosmalski. The 2020 NCAA DIII National Coach of the Year and Hall of Famer player at Davidson sat down with us to discuss his thoughts and philosophy on a number areas both on and off the court including:
- The Value of Hard Warm-Ups
- We talked what elite game preparation looks like, and what it says about your program.
- Transition Offensive Concepts
- Ways to seamlessly flow into your half-court offense
- The Value of Pace
- Why, How, and When to use pace to control an offensive possession
- Playing with Two Non-Shooting Bigs
- Spacing, Cutting, Screening, and overall philosophy of playing with two non-shooting bigs at the same time.
- Swarthmore played with two All-American Posts for a couple years that could not shoot, and we dove into Coach Kosmalski’s strategies on how he used them and the lessons learned.
- “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”
- We discuss Blocking Shots, Set Alignments, and Stats that matter
- The Best Investment in Coach Kosmalski’s career, and what he learned from playing and coaching under Bob McKillop