Episode 123: Mike Mackay, Applying Transformational and Evidence Based Ideas

Guest: Mike Mackay, Basketball Canada's Women's High-Performance Manager In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Basketball Canada's Women's High-Performance Manager Mike MacKay joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss applying transformational and evidenced-based ideas.   MacKay, a long-time basketball coach, mentor, and educator, is Performance Manager of the women’s high-performance program for Basketball Canada. In his roe, MacKay is primarily responsible for the continued development of the women’s program’s high-performance athlete profile and the identification of standards against which Canada’s female athletes at the senior, development and youth levels can be measured.   Through his deep knowledge base and familiarity with Canada’s player pool, MacKay provides technical leadership to the women’s Targeted Athlete Strategy (TAS) program. The native of Truro, N.S. will also be counted upon to assist and guide the continued development of Canada Basketball’s development and age-group women’s national team coaches.   Mike MacKay returns to the organization after a two-year absence. He previously served as Canada Basketball’s Manager of Coaching Education and Development. He was Manager Coach Education for Canada Basketball from 2004-2010. During this time he leads a team that developed CS4L and New NCCP.   MacKay has coaching experience at many levels including Junior High, High School, Club (mini - Juvenile), University, Provincial team, and National teams. Breakdown 1:00 - Facts Without Support 3:00 - Trial and Error 5:00 - Transactional vs Transformational Coaching 7:30 - Transactional Coaching 10:30 - Improving Players with Transformational Coaching 13:00 - Check for Understanding 15:00 - Fast, Open Environment 17:00 - Stopping to Correct and Teach 19:30 - VHS 21:00 - Discovering Unstructered Practice Environment 24:00 - Freedom comes from Structure 27:00 - Breaking Down Inbounds 29:30 - Decision Making and Finding Solution 33:00 - Creative in Solving Problems in Practice 37:30 - Constraints for the Defense and Offense 41:00 - Guidance in the Learning process 45:00 - Green Eggs and Hams 48:00 - Who plus Y Equals Y plus How 51:30 - Layering and Loading Drills 54:30 - Starting Point 56:00 - Disruptive Side 58:00 - Start with Live 1:00:00 - Applying the Rule of Three 1:02:00 - Individual and Team Improvement 1:05:00 - Skill Equals Confidnce 1:06:30 - His Big Three 1:10:00 - Stimulate Thinking 1:12:00 - Conclusion Mike Mackay’s Bio Bio: https://www.basketball.ca/en/coach/mike-mackay Twitter: https://twitter.com/mdkmackay Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion BetOnline Website: Website: www.betonline.ag Best in the West Video Series Best in the West Website: http://bestinthewestclinic.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.