This week’s guest on the Pacey Performance Podcast is Director of Performance for the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA, Daniel Bove. Daniel has previously worked for the Atlanta Hawks as their assistance strength coach, before moving on to the Phoenix Suns and then New Orleans in his current role. Daniel has just released a new book outlining the quadrant system as a coaching tool, which is what we’ll be mainly discussing today.
Daniel talks about how to use the quadrant system as a visualisation tool in strength and conditioning training, including how it can be used in regular, day-to-day coaching. This includes the outputs that can be created, how to manage quadrants when games are close together, and what to include in each of the four quadrants depending on an athlete’s needs.
We also discuss force plates and their use in the NBA, giving some insight into plyometrics in a sport where effective jumping is an absolute necessity – including the metrics to look out for. To learn all this and much more, hit the pay button now to hear how a top-level NBA tackles the subject of coaching a team over an intensive, 82-game season.
This week’s topics:
- The use of quadrants as a visualisation tool
- Daniel’s principles for periodisation and planning
- How to make the quadrant system fit into everyday coaching
- Creating an output using the strength training quadrant
- The use of machines during slow strength training
- Managing quadrants when games are so close together
- What to change in quadrants depending on the opposition
- The use of metabolic quadrants, and what each quadrant involves
- How plyometrics fit into the quadrant system
- Force plates and how they are used in the NBA
- How much info to feed back to athletes regarding rehab