Ep. 102 Don Showalter, USA Basketball U17 & U16 Head Coach and Coach Director

Coach Brendan Suhr welcomes Don Showalter, Head Coach of the U17 & U16 teams and Coach Director for USA Basketball. Coach Showalter has compiled a PERFECT 62-0 record at the helm of USA Basketball U16 and U17 teams since the inaugural U16 competition in 2009. In this episode, Coach Showalter talks about coaching his U17 team this summer to a World Championship, the challenge of putting together a championship level team in a short amount of time, the selection process that he and his staff use when choosing his players for USA Basketball, how he gets his team to buy-in on the defensive end through trust and why he prefers using standards instead of rules. All that and more on Episode 102 of the Coaching U Podcast with Coach Brendan Suhr!