Slappin’ Glass sits down with Head Coach of 2021 Polish Basketball League Champion, BM Slam Stal Ostrów, Coach Igor Milicic. The trio dive into evaluating and growing key role and bench players, the intricacies of “Hedging a Ballscreen”, and talk “half-time stats”, and end of game risks during the always fun “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”
Inside the Episode: Igor Milicic
Coach Igor Milicic led his club, Slam Stal Ostrow, to a championship this year in Poland’s Top Professional League, the PLK, and we were fortunate to sit down with him this week in our newest podcast to pick his brain on a variety of topics. Coach Milicic is well-known for his creativity on both ends of the floor and used a mixture of zone and man defenses to lead his club to the title this season. In our conversation we cover:
- Evaluating Key Role Players
- How to find, evaluate, and train key “rotation” players
- “Hedge and Under” PNR Defense
- “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”
- End of Game Trapping, Isolation Spots, and Half-Time Stats
- Off-Season Thoughts
- The things he’ll keep going into next season, and the things he’ll cut