Slappin' Glass Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This week on Slappin’ Glass, we sit down with Justin Bokmeyer, Director of Basketball Operations for the Brooklyn Nets, to explore how great teams build sustainable, high-performance environments.

With a background spanning West Point, MLS Next, and the NBA Academy, Justin shares powerful lessons on leadership, systems thinking, and developing people-first organizations that thrive under pressure.

🧠 What You’ll Learn

• People Over Hardware: Why elite performance starts with hiring, aligning, and empowering the right people.
• Systems Thinking: How to connect decisions across departments to reduce silos and improve trust.
• Onboarding and Role Clarity: The overlooked key to alignment and long-term success.
• Decision-Making Frameworks: How Justin uses pre-mortems, decision journaling, and pushing decisions to the lowest level to build accountability and clarity.
• Military Leadership Lessons: Applying principles like shared mission, healthy ego, and accountability from West Point to professional sports.

🔁 Key Quote

Tune in to learn how the Brooklyn Nets’ Justin Bokmeyer blends leadership, decision science, and culture-building to create environments where teams can grow, compete, and sustain excellence.

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In this episode, Slappin’ Glass is joined by Ken Pomeroy and Jordan Sperber, creators of the course Basketball Analytics for Coaches. They dive into how data can sharpen decision-making, refine strategy, and help coaches think more clearly about how they play and teach the game.

🧠 What You’ll Learn:

1. Rethinking Pace
Why pace isn’t just about speed — it’s about possession quality and efficiency. Learn how teams like UConn and Alabama succeed with drastically different tempos, and why coaches should focus on avoiding late-clock possessions instead of simply playing faster.

2. Offense, Defense, and What Really Wins
Is “defense wins championships” still true? Ken and Jordan explain why elite offense has become slightly more predictive of winning in today’s spacing-heavy game and the connection between pace and defensive quality.

3. The Real Story Behind Shot Selection
Discover why the best teams don’t always take the “best” shots — and how marginal gains, like trading a few long twos for threes or cutting out floaters, can create meaningful offensive improvement without overhauling your roster.

4. Using Analytics in Late-Game Decisions
From quick two vs. three, to foul or defend up three, to playing stars in foul trouble — learn how data can help coaches define their philosophy ahead of emotional, high-pressure moments.

5. What Stats Actually Matter
Ken and Jordan reveal which numbers predict success: two-point percentage and shot selection stability — not three-point streaks or halftime box scores. Coaches will learn what to track, what to ignore, and how to use numbers to reinforce team values.

🏀 Key Takeaway:

Analytics isn’t about replacing instincts — it’s about creating a framework to think better. Whether it’s pace, shot selection, or in-game strategy, data helps you coach with clarity and confidence.

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This week on the Slappin’ Glass Podcast, we sit down with Chattanooga Mocs Head Coach, Dan Earl, for a masterclass in offensive creativity, teaching, and decision-making.

Coach Earl dives deep into the evolution of his Princeton-influenced offense, where the five-man acts as the hub—a quarterback-like figure who randomizes actions, flows into concepts, and keeps the ball moving with spacing, cutting, and decision-making at the center of everything. He details how to teach bigs to pass, pivot, cut, and make reads, while also emphasizing the importance of allowing freedom and randomness within structure.

We discuss:

• Randomizing offense through the five-man: spacing, ball screens, and empowering skilled centers.
• Teaching cutting, screening, and timing—why Chattanooga was one of the most efficient cutting teams in the nation last year.
• Shot selection and assist stats: how Coach Earl teaches decision-making and efficiency without overloading players.
• Late-game conundrums: fouling up three, defending full-court situations, and the eternal debate of putting a defender on or off the inbounder.
• The role of relationships and trust in building a successful program.

From X’s and O’s to late-game philosophy, Coach Earl offers both practical teaching points and big-picture lessons that coaches at every level will take something from.

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Slappin' Glass is joined for a second time on the show by the President of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics, Brad Stevens! The trio dive into teaching in high performance environments, drills to ignite the room, and discuss building trust amongst peers and the story and real name behind the SLOB "Winner" series during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"

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Slappin' Glass sits down today with Youngstown St. MBB Head Coach, Jerrod Calhoun! The trio explore a number of interesting topics on both ends of the floor including defensive "fixes", rotation drills, and discuss great ATO's and Player-Led Film sessions during the always entertaining "Start, Sub, or Sit?!" segment. 

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Slappin' Glass sits down this week Real Madrid Head Coach, Chus Mateo! Coach Mateo, fresh off a Euroleague Championship season, shares his insights on his decision to switch to a zone defense in the Euroleague playoffs, the in's and out's of that same zone, and the trio talk player buy-in and attacking Drop Coverage during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"

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Slappin' Glass sits down this week with the newly hired Head Coach of Wisconsin Green Bay MBB, Sundance Wicks. Coach Wicks brings a ton of energy and passion to the podcast as the trio dive into the areas of building "scout" specific and base defenses, hiding poor defenders, and the trio talk contagious culture, and advantages vs. movement during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"

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Slappin' Glass sits down this week with the Head Coach of Cincinnati MBB, Wes Miller. The trio dive into a host of great topics including building a pressure defense, guarding the ball, station work, and talk the baseline runner series and learning how to win during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"

Looking for another great defensive-minded episode? Check out our recent episode with newly hired Texas Tech MBB Head Coach, Grant McCasland. 

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Slappin' Glass sits down today with one of the great young coaches in the game, Columbia WBB Head Coach, Meg Griffith. The trio dive into a wide-ranging conversation about energy as a coach, including how to re-energize mid season, along with playing with an edge, transition offensive concepts, and we talk peer-to-peer communication and peel switch rotations during the always fun "Start, Sub, or Sit?!"

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Slappin' Glass sits down this week with the head of one of the best and fastest growing sports tech companies,  Austin Barone, founder of Just Play. Just Play is a unique all-in-one software solution shaping the future of coaching and player interaction. In this episode Austin takes us behind the scenes, sharing fascinating insights about his transition from a college football kicker at Kansas to a tech entrepreneur.

Austin's tale is more than just about success; it's about strategic risk-taking, following passion, and continuously enhancing value for customers. Discover how Austin and his team leverage their combined expertise in accounting, tech, and passion for sports to consistently innovate and disrupt the sports tech industry. Hear about the calculated risks, long-term plans, and the compelling story behind their strategic decision to venture into the basketball world.

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