Idaho Basketball Coaching Podcast
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One person's continuing journey to become a better basketball coach. Episodes include interviews with basketball coaches & other leadership experts from Idaho and beyond. Email: [email protected].
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A practical coaching show about spacing, defense, player development, and the practice work behind team identity.
Idaho Basketball Coaching Podcast stays close to the coach's room, where basketball sounds less like a debate show and more like a working craft. Across the sampled episodes, it gives coaches from Lake City High School, Concordia St.
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A clear coaching discussion about player development, reads, and balancing strengths with weaknesses.
The discussion returns to Roberto Bergeson's move back to Boise State, but the real value is his plain account of player development. He separates summer, preseason, and in season work, then keeps circling back to role, reads, and weaknesses.
A practical look at how offensive ideas get installed through staff work, film, and trust.
Lundgren's return to the Idaho Basketball Coaching Podcast is mostly about the work around the offense, not the headline version of it. He spends more time on how a staff talks, how it teaches, and which players need which message.
A focused look at practice design for coaches who care about structure, constraints, and repetition.
Jefferson's return keeps the attention on how a coach shapes practice, especially with a roster that mixes academy players and senior men. The discussion stays grounded in small-sided games, constraints, and repetition without repetition, and it is at its best when Jefferson…
A practical look at teaching decisions, not just skills, when the floor turns chaotic.
Reid Osi centers the conversation on how player development holds up once the floor gets messy. He moves through ball-screen reads, rim pressure, tagging the roller, and practice constraints that force players to spot problems and make fast decisions.
A practical look at scanning, cueing, and game like decision making.
This episode keeps coming back to scanning, perception action coupling, and how coaches build decisions into practice. Chris Oliver and Coach Will Love move through cueing, video pauses, and game like settings that help players notice more than one thing at once.
A basketball coaching conversation about helping players solve stalled possessions.
Taylor Tucker focuses on a basketball coaching problem that is easy to recognize and hard to solve: helping players make the next clean decision when an action breaks down.
A practical look at how pace, spacing, and player growth turned into a real offense.
Brent Keener's discussion focuses on how Mountain Home shaped a faster girls offense through pace, early shots, and spacing. It also follows the logic behind the shot profile, the short-roll action, and Ava's growth into a bigger late-season weapon, all against the backdrop of a…
A practical coach-to-coach look at two-bigs basketball, focused on player decision-making, spacing, and how players create advantages.
Alex Sarama returns to a talk about playing with two bigs and uses it to make a larger case for offense built on advantage, not habit. The point is less about set patterns than about reading the floor, creating space, and letting skill show up in simple actions.
Wizards rebuild talk with daily receipts.
Daily Pacers analysis with real consequences.
Coach Will Love opens with a mention of the Idaho Basketball Coaching Podcast newsletter before welcoming Liam Jefferson back to the show.
Coach Will Love welcomes Chris Oliver back for a practical coaching conversation about how practice shapes decision-making.
Doug Novak explains how protection plans keep a possession alive when a drive cannot reach the restricted circle, using terms like nashes, hockeys, Barkley, and home base.
James Anderson returns after leading Lake City High School to the 6A state title over Owyhee of Meridian.
Matt Fletcher talks through Concordia St.
Taylor Tucker talks through how he thinks about triggers that restart offense when possessions stall.
Alex Sarama returns to talk with Will about playing with two bigs.
Eric Fawcett joins the show from Alberta and traces the different lanes of his basketball work.
Colby Blaine comes back to talk shop after another national title at the College of Idaho.
Will Love opens with a newsletter note, directing listeners to coachingidaho.substack.com for the drills, concepts, and write-ups it contains.
Dave Lepisto returns to the podcast to discuss coaching, teaching, and the ways constraints can shape player development.
Felix Engel, a former youth national team player and youth coach in Germany, argues that coaching should start with trust, creativity, and clear accountability.
Brent Keener talks through a Mountain Home season that ended 21-5 and a third place finish at the Idaho 5A State Girls Tournament.
Dan Krikorian walks through Chapman’s first season as head coach and how he sizes it up now that the season is done.
Vaz joins from Brazil and talks through what principles of play mean for a coach.
Interview with University of Idaho head coach Alex Pribble about his three-year rebuilding plan and the team's NCAA Tournament run.
Roberto Bergeson joins from the Boise State staff and walks through the path that brought him back to the program where he starred as a player.
Ryan Lundgren returns to the podcast.
Culture consultant JP Nerbun joins the Idaho Basketball Coaching Podcast for a live session recorded after a workshop with 60 coaches at Sandpoint High School.
Host Will Love interviews Ty Keck, head girls basketball coach at Skyline High School, about practice planning and structure.
Host Will Love interviews John Adams, chairperson of the Kenmare Kestrels basketball club in Ireland, discussing the club's origins inspired by Harry Potter, its community-focused approach, and challenges in coaching volunteers.
Coach Will Love interviews Bill Himmelberg, head women's basketball coach at University of Providence, about his journey to the NAIA national championship game.
Coach Will Love interviews Ryan Josephson, head boys basketball coach at Camas High School, about his team's summer season and offensive philosophy.
Coach Will Love interviews Kirby Shep, head men's basketball coach at University of Manitoba, about his experiences coaching internationally and developing youth players.
Coach Will Love introduces a newsletter and interviews two high school basketball coaches about their summer programs.
Coach Will Love interviews basketball coaching expert Brian McCormick about his new book on defense.
Interview with a high school girls basketball coach about his background and team's state tournament run.
Interview with basketball coach Aaron Fernandez about his coaching background and current work with spring teams.
Interview with new head girls basketball coach Jordan Axe about building a program from scratch.
Interview with Seth Kindig, a basketball coach, discussing his background and coaching journey.