Episode 128: Joe Gallo, 2-3 Zone and Tactical Periodization

Guest: Joe Gallo, Merrimack College Head Coach In this week’s basketball coaching conversation, Merrimack College head coach Joe Gallo joins the Basketball Podcast to discuss the 2-3 zone they have used to great success, and tactical periodization as it applies to basketball coaching. After leading Merrimack to a Northeast Conference regular-season title in 2020, its first season in Division I, Gallo was named conference coach of the year. Gallo began his coaching career in 2005 as an assistant at Merrimack a year after he was a player for the Warriors. In 2010, Gallo was hired as an assistant under head coach Paul Cormier at Dartmouth. He was hired as an assistant under Andrew Toole at Robert Morris 2012. In 2016, Gallo was hired as head coach at his alma mater, Merrimack Gallo navigated Merrimack College to the best ever inaugural season in NCAA D1 basketball history. No stranger to success, Gallo helped Merrimack become an NCAA D2 powerhouse. He completed a run of three NCAA Tournament appearances in three years in 2018-19 to put a bow on the program's Division II history. He also snapped a 19-year conference championship drought when he guided the program to the 2018-19 Northeast-10 Conference Championship. Gallo boasts a 61-34 (.642) career record, the most wins ever for a head coach over their first three seasons. Breakdown 1:00 - Make Chaos 3:00 - Free Zone 7:00 - Techniques and Concepts that Applies in the Zone 9:00 - Recovery vs Punctures 11:00 - Closeouts 12:00 - High Posts and Short Corners 17:00 - Dribble Penetration 20:00 - Philosophy about Limiting Threes 22:00 - Shooting vs Zone 24:30 - Making Better Decisions 27:30 - Man to Man Defense 29:30 - Train and Be Great at What You Do 31:30 - Play Calls 33:00 - Developing Players 35:00 - Doing Workouts 37:00 - Tactical Periodization 44:00 - Collective Intentionally 48:30 - Perceptual and Decision-Making Repetition 50:30 - Patterns 53:00 - Conclusion Joe Gallo’s Bio Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gallo_(basketball) Twitter: https://twitter.com/joeygall0 Basketball Immersion Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion BetOnline Website: Website: www.betonline.ag Best in the West Video Series Best in the West Website: http://bestinthewestclinic.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.