Tony Casella - Finding and nurturing the next NBA star

Tony Casella is the National Talent Identification Coordinator at Australian Basketball. With over 20 years experience working in basketball within Australia, Tony has seen some of the best and most high profile Australian basketball players transition into the professional ranks including the NBA. Show notes 01:00 - Introduction to Tony Casella basketball experience04:00 - Australian basketball talent and participation pathway10:30 - Talent identification criteria for high potential players15:40 - The talent ID framework within Australian Basketball22:00 - Assessing players who are ready to make the jump in competition level28:31 - RAE effect and bio banding challenges in talent ID35:00 - Using physical metrics as performance indicators40:00 - Creating a programme that allows the system to create multi skilled and positional players44:30 - Greatest challenge faced within Tony's role.48:00 - How would he want to be described by fellow practitioners Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.