Inside the Episode
As mentioned above, we were thrilled to be joined on the podcast this week by one of the all-time greatest coaches in the game, Ettore Messina. Coach Messina brought his valuable years of experience in both the International and NBA game as we discussed:
- Adapting and Playing to Strengths: Some terrific insights from Coach Messina about how he thinks about forming an identity, roles, and style of play around the strengths of his players, as well as how he works to help his players understanding and playing to those individual strengths. ????
- Playbook and Set Design: An always interesting topic to discuss with coaches on how they build out their playbooks from pre to post season, and the tweaks and changes made along the way. Coach Messina opens up on his own process as well as the size of his playbook, cuts he prefers, and more.
- “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”: In this always fun segment we ask Coach Messina about adaptability, creativity, and practice flow.