Ryan Pannone

When I hear "Ryan Pannone," it conjures up a vision of a Blacklist villain. In truth, he's one of the brightest rising stars in basketball coaching. 

Wikipedia lists his career arc of coaching through the NBA D and G League, internationally, as NBA assistant, and now as an assistant at Alabama. 

Coaching philosophy. He loves basketball and loves player development with an extended period working with NBA player development coach David Thorpe. He's a team builder from the ground up. "We’ve had meetings to show the analytics and the numbers behind how we wanted to play. In practice, we built off everything we showed on video on the type of system and style of play that we want to have.”

Coaching Clinics. Coach Pannone has an extensive 'paper trail' of clinics, lectures, and podcasts. Here he explains how analytics mesh with teaching details of 5-out play. 

Here's a lengthy podcast with Chris Oliver.

 

Social Media. Coach Pannone excels at teaching and sharing. His Facebook site shares extensively. 

He shares on insta. 

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{ Delay Reads - Attacking the High Switch 🧵} To finish out our "Film Room" Session with @RyanPannone on the 5-Out Offense we looked at number of different ways teams are attacking the High Switch in Delay, starting with a Late Cut. pic.twitter.com/mPPjeARVs1

— Slappin' Glass (@SlappinGlass) October 30, 2023

Ryan Pannone Top Quotes:

“Most of the time what you see on offensive rebounding is guys go after the ball but they’re a half-second, second late . . then the moment somebody touches them, they eliminate their effort . . these are things we try to build.”

“Great defenders don’t get screened . . if you watch high level offensive rebounders, very rarely do they get boxed out.”

“At the end of the day, I find as a coach, there’s a few reasons you’re not doing something – you’re either not good enough to do it or you don’t care enough to do it.”

“Most players want to get better . . improving your value is what we talk about in our player development sessions. For every player, if you improve your rebounding you improve your value.”

“Often times people are looking at assist numbers and assist-to-turnover ratios which is kind of an archaic stat. To me there’s no real value to assist-to-turnover ratios . . when you’re evaluating a team because at the end of the day it’s assist attempts.”

“The confidence a coach can breathe into a player can change the trajectory of his career.”

I also appreciate how he regularly credits and thanks his wife for her sacrifices during his career. 

Lagniappe. 

End of season tasks

-Set Banquet Date
-Order Awards
-Player Exit Interviews
-HS Staff Exit Interviews
-MS Staff Exit Interviews
-Gear Collection
-Equipment Inventory
-Player Highlights to Colleges

— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) November 11, 2023

Lagniappe 2. Success follows development.  

Kansas going through a pin down series

Emphasis

1) Footwork
2) Getting Body Squared to basket
3) Running through pass on curls
4) Planting Inside for on bumps pic.twitter.com/j1sIuFVUSQ

— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) November 11, 2023