BCR - Ep. 11 with JD Walsh

Basketball Coaches Roundtable

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast welcomes JD Walsh as Guest of the Roundtable. JD Walsh was a former McDonald's All-American Honor Mention and went on to play for Hall of Fame coach Gary Williams at the University of Maryland. JD had short professional career overseas before returning home to Long Island, NY where he started the JD Basketball School. Starting with coaching kindergarteners in a small gym to running camps and clinics in China, Israel and India (among others) and being sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, JD Walsh truly used basketball to spread basketball all over the world and positively influence countless players.

Topics discussed at the roundtable:

• How have you used basketball in your life and what has basketball been able to do for you?
• When did you have the idea that you wanted to take basketball to another level?
• What is the next step in your evolution of basketball?
• The NYS Empire State Games
• Smush Parker
• Day-to-Day structuring of Camps and managing the language barrier?
• Advise on the business side of basketball and being an entrepreneur?
• What needs to be developed more in today's players?
• Dominque Wilkins story

Sitting at the roundtable:

• Ben Newman - Host
• Elle Greene - Head Coach, BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY
• Jay Griffin - Assistant Coach, John Jay College, New York, NY
• Dan Murphy - Special Assistant, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ