This is awesome for OKC. Mixing is the hardest thing. Engelland:We knew when he came back, how much it had stuck with him and he took it to heart. 9. That ranks second in the NBA behind the Golden State Warriors. Although friends and colleagues around the league universally speak of Engelland as an intelligent, gregarious coach prone to a well-timed prank, he rarely does interviews and was indeed unavailable for comment on this story during San Antonios buildup to the playoffs. After a few minutes, Engelland would shout at Kerr to go, and the two would sprint off the bench and set Kerr up for a single 3-point attempt from the wing before returning to the bench. You cant just run roughshod over your teammates to try to do that. Even though the Spurs publicly suggest now that they would have been able to play Parker and Kidd in the same lineup, its unlikely that San Antoniowould have been optimally employing itsresources, especially given Parkers limitations at the time. He served as a ball boy for coach John Wooden and the NCAA champion UCLA Bruins in 1975, before arriving at Duke University four years later where he played under coach Mike Krzyzewski for four seasons. Who, every day, stared up into the stoic eyes of Tim Duncan, my sports hero growing up. I showed him pictures of Richard, and pictures of himself. Here it is, in its entirety: What a silly mistake. Rather than keeping his right hand under the ball, Parker had it slightly higher up. 8. He is painfully quiet, a 22-year-old whose father was murdered in 2008 and who is extremely discerning about who he trusts. There was good reason for Leonards haste; the league was about to lock out its players, meaning that Engelland had just 72 hours to work with his new charge before he would be forced to cease all contact. On Tuesday, Gregg Popovich was named NBA Coach of the Year, becoming just the third personin league history to receive the Red Auerbach Trophythree times. Some of the improvements Belinelli has made since arriving in San Antonio are undoubtedly a product of the Spurs offense getting him open looks and funneling him into places where he takes smarter shots. Neal himself was another Engelland project; after making 35.9 percent of his 3sin college, Neal upped that to 39.8 percent during his three years in San Antonio, including that memorable night with six 3s against the Heat in Game 3 of last years Finals. Engelland:I went back and looked at his high school stuff. Why do I mention this here, on a San Antonio Spurs fansite? My first thoughts were, who flew to Portland? -Meet the NBA Shot Doctors (LINK) Kawhi Leonard made the old Tony Parker look like a long-lost Korver brother. He would have needed a ticket or a television to watch the contest that time a year ago, let alone participate. When to post, when to do the turnaround, when to do the jump-hook, when to shoot the 3, and when to drive. You can only imagine how furious he might have been hadthe signing actually happened. After ranking 24th or worse six times in Popovichs eight seasons before Engelland arrived, the Spurs have finally turned things around. Engelland: "Just to be patient, not get too down. I remember the first year here, he was just getting comfortable on the wings. He is currently an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). "I love the players that want to play. USA Today Sports' Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt break down the Spurs' dominating win against the Heat, as well as the big-time performance from Kawhi Leonard. 6.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game and shooting 39.8% from three-point range. Deadspin reporter Kevin Draper found numerous examples where Simmons cut-and-pasted press releases for copy in his own articles, tweeted Simmons, and his Editor at the Chronicle, Audrey Cooper, I wrote about it when Klay Thompson was in a shooting slump. After really exhibiting competency only from the wings last year, Belinelli has become the leagues best shooter from the top of the arc and an efficient contributor from either corner. Its hard to imagine that tiny shift of weight even being perceptible to an observer, but Kerr noted that Engelland is capable of seeing things in a shooters motion that even Kerr, the leagues most accurate 3-point shooter ever, wouldnt notice. Tiago Splitter, $10,000,000, 2013-14. And I think he did. Popovich credits Engelland for San Antonios free-throw accuracy. Its not easy to change your shot. Its hard to find a category where he isnt having his best season. It all came to fruition in one whirlwind week last month as they landed Aldridge for the biggest signing in team history. UPDATE #1: Bill Barnwell responded to my email, in which I asked whether the drill for Kerr was created by Fraser or Engelland. The California-born baller spent four years at Duke before going un-drafted in 1983. We used him as a model that release point and shot. One of my great compliments to Kawhi is, even after four years, he still loves the gym. Per club policy terms of his contract were not announced. Spurs assistant Engelland explains how he strengthened Leonard's outside shot, Former Boerne QB investigated for allegedly sharing XFL plays, Spurs, Rockets vying for worst record in the NBA. He has made a career out of molding shooters, and Belinelli is his latest star pupil. At some point, it becomes his. After starring during his time at Pacific Palisades High School in California, Engelland went on to Duke, where he took advantage of a 17-foot-9-inch 3-point line to shoot 55.4 percent from behind the arc his senior year. They didnt reconnect until the 1993-94 season. Is that something that is continually tweaked throughout his first year, and down the line? The NBA lockout was coming quickly that year, meaning players and coaches would have to part ways until there was resolution, so Leonard headed straight for San Antonio with Elfus and spent the little time he had left listening to the charismatic coach with the impressive track record. Engelland would ask Kerr to tell him what was going on with his kids or even leave him to read a newspaper. Since that time, no player who took 150 3-pointers in college before taking the same number of 3sin the pros has improved theirshooting percentage on triplesmore than Kawhi Leonard has: The line to sign Marco Belinelli this past offseason couldnt have been very long. We all know the rest of the story. That all just takes time and experience. There wasn't much of it still available, but I now own all of it. You don't. In terms of how Engelland can change Minnesotas outlook, there are several players that would benefit from his coaching expertise right away. Back in April 2014, Bill Barnwell wrote a fascinating piece about Spurs coach Chip Engelland: The Shot Doctor.. Once you start adding other pieces to his game drives and post-ups and turnaround jumpers, etc do you ever have to come back to the shooting form, to make sure theres no slippage? Josh Giddey this year after getting the Engelland treatment pic.twitter.com/TAqLtybv7a. And of course, the lockout hits a week after hes drafted, and youre not going to be able to help at all during that time. He never did it with the Spurs, but they were more than happy to bring him on in order to dump Jefferson and his ill-fated contract. When he was in, hed get a shot or two. Parker, as Adrian Wojnarowski mentions in that story, was also pissed. Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland (left) and point guard Tony Parker chat during the NBA Finals practice and media session at the AT&T Center on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. During the 1999-2000 season, he became a shooting consultant with the Detroit Pistons. Chip Engelland, the San Antonio Spurs assistant coach who has been working wonders with NBA players' jump shots since the late 1990s, found himself holding court with a half-dozen reporters at the NBA Finals off-day session at American Airlines Arena. Today Chip Engelland is sixty-years-old. I think we did one different thing this summer. The changes had an instant impact. In fact, the entire team has gotten much better from the charity stripe. Tony Parker, $13,500,000, 2010-11. His reputation as a shot doctor comes from cases like Kawhi. Feb 1, 2019 No basketball. After he graduated, Engelland bounced around the CBA and the 76-inches-and-under World Basketball League, and became a legend in the basketball hotbed of the Philippines before retiring. Engelland might quietly be one of the most undervalued assets in basketball. Hes a throwback in the way that he doesnt need immediate satisfaction. After turning Gary Neal into a deadeye shooter from 3, he built Belinelli into San Antonios latest spot-up monster on the cheap. 7. Engelland, who came to the Spurs from the Denver Nuggets in 2005, has been the go-to guy on this front for quite some time. He backed off some, because he knew he had a long season ahead.. I walked into pre-draft camp, and Kawhi wasnt scheduled to work out. The Thunder are hiring renowned shooting guru Chip Engelland as an assistant coach ahead of the 2022-23 season, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Giving fans a taste of a pro coach's film session, host Coach Nick breaks down fundamentals, play calling, offense, defense, shooting form, officiating, and everything else basketball. The new mechanics stuck, and Leonard has been an offensive asset ever since, especially during last years playoffs. In an interview with fan podcast "At The Line," Eubanks spoke about expanding his game away from the rim and working with the team's shooting coach guru, Chip Engelland. The Casa De Spurs Podcast is available everywhere, including: (function(d, s, id) { Youve got to pull him out of the gym. You dont want to rush and try to get results in one day. Its impossible to come up with an exact figure, but lets throw an estimate out there based upon his work with Belinelli. They were behind. (He wasnt the only notable NBA character in the stands there, either; Lakers president Jeannie Buss was the teams scorekeeper and Engellands girlfriend.) Chip Engelland, Josh Giddey, Oklahoma City Thunder, Chip Engelland, Luguentz Dort, Oklahoma City Thunder, Chip Engelland, Mark Daigneault, Uncategorized, Chip Engelland, Mark Daigneault, Oklahoma City Thunder, Chip Engelland, Coaching, Aaron Wiggins, Aleksej Pokusevski, Darius Bazley, Eugene Omoruyi, Jalen Williams, Jaylin Williams, Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, Josh Giddey, Lindy Waters III, Ousmane Dieng, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Tre Mann, Oklahoma City Thunder, Brandon Rahbar: Josh Giddey says that when he first started working with Chip Engelland, he had him just shoot one handed shots. But while Belinellis shot charts from the past two years (courtesy ofGrantland colleague Kirk Goldsberry) reveal a player who is taking different shots, they also reveal one who has been a significantly better shooter almost regardless of where hes taking them: Its hard to even envision that those two charts could be of the same player, let alone in consecutive seasons. Danny Green, $10,000,000, 2015-16. He shot just 32 percent on catch-and-shoot jumpers and 28 percent on pull-ups. Jake Fischer reported Monday afternoon that the San Antonio Spurs shooting coach Chip Engelland is set to leave the franchise when his contract is up. In 1993, Engelland started his coaching career, introducing his basketball camps Chip Shots with the aim of helping players of all ages improve their shooting skills; two years later he founded the In-Net Corporation, strengthening his reputation as a clinician . Engelland:At a certain point in anybodys rookie season, you back off and let him learn the league, learn the Spurs. Chip Engelland was hardly a shooting slouch in his own right. No open gym, which is a month. 10. At this point, you really have no idea what Leonard is like personally. During Engellands time at Palisades, an eighth grader by the name of Steve Kerr was watching him from the stands. He was getting tested. Shooting was a big one for me this off-season, Giddey said. Chip changed that. 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Engelland insisted that Parker take the 3-point shot out of his game, and he has; after averaging nearly 200 3-pointers per season during his four seasons in the league without Engelland and hitting on just 31.5 percent of them Parker has averaged just over 56 3-point attempts per season since. It was an honest, but strangely specific, mistake. After Engelland graduated, Kerr took over the starring role on the team. Buford and coach Gregg Popovich have dispatched Engelland and fellow assistant coach Chad Forcier to spend two weeks training with Leonard in his hometown. You dont know if hes really going to work over the summer, or scrap the new formor what. Before teaming up with the winningest coach in NBA history, Gregg Popovich, his hoops career was touched by some of the game's most legendary figures. Among the 17 wing prospects the site evaluated before the draft, Leonard was 15th in points per possession, 16th in points per shot on jumpers, 15th in points per possession on isolations, and dead last in adjusted field goal percentage. }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); In the next month, SpursDynasty.com will be visited by 35,000+ readers from over 50 countries, including 10,000+ Spurs fans from Texas, and 5,000+ living in San Antonio. And hes still getting better as a shooter. They all swear by the man with the salt-and-pepper hair who used to captain Mike Krzyzewski's Duke teams, the 53-year-old who has such a special way of persuading the most stubborn of athletes to trust in his ways. I recently wrote a story for the Express-News Spurs Nation magazine third in a three-piece installment onKawhi Leonards developmentfrom a draft-day gamble into a potential All-Star. San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker talks with assistant coach Chip Engelland during practice at the AT&T Center, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Engelland will arrive in Oklahoma. You play within your teams structure. Kerr told Engelland about his problem and the shooting expertflew up and offered a solution: a 30-minute, seven-shot workout. The Cooler (@The__Cooler) July 27, 2022. When I was working on the Fraser feature, we talked a lot about his shooting drills. "Spurs name Chip Engelland assistant coach", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chip_Engelland&oldid=1139193146, American expatriate basketball people in Canada, American expatriate basketball people in the Philippines, Duke Blue Devils men's basketball players, Philippines men's national basketball team players, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 21:52. Unlocking all the things that make a player great. Leonards effort was well worth it. After graduating from Duke in 1983, Engelland went on to play professionally for nine years. Kerr and Engelland would sit alone on the bench in the Portland practice facility after everybody else had left. Engelland:When I worked with Grant Hill many moons ago, the next step iswhen to do what. "This offseason,. Engelland, the former dead shot swingman of the NCC squad, is now an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. Hes in San Diego, every day is perfect, and instead of three, he only goes to the gym twice. UPDATE #2: I received an email from Rusty Simmons. For the Minnesota Timberwolves, good coaching and development should play a major part in determining how far this talented group can go in 2022-23. I felt his shot didnt need a full makeover. Richard was 30 years old when he changed his shot. Engelland has been with San Antonio since 2005, but since hes changing locations, he probably wouldnt mind going to a team that has a few of his former clients on it. Then Engelland would have him sprint onto the court and shoot another shot before sitting down again. The Spurs will play Game 1 of the Finals against the Miami Heat on Thursday. When Leonard was drafted 15th overall by the Indiana Pacers out of San Diego State in 2011 and immediately traded to the Spurs, there were only three days left for him to meet his new bosses. San Antonio Spurs shooting guru and coach Chip Engelland talks about working with Kawhi Leonard on his mechanics, as well as The Turn, The Dip, and where the eyes should focus on release.SUBSCRIBE HERE FOR MORE: http://bit.ly/BBallSubWe're not a channel, we're a conversation. Kerr and Engelland would sit alone on the bench in the Portland practice facility after everybody else had left. With Kawhi it wasn't a makeover, it was more of a tune-up, changing the release point. They drilled the new shot for a couple of days before the lockout hit, at which point Leonard was stuck familiarizing himself with his new mechanics by himself in Las Vegas and San Diego.6. I happened to walk in, and he happened to take shots literally right when I walked in. 17-foot-9-inch 3-point line to shoot 55.4 percent from behind the arc his senior year, went to dinner with his wife and Engelland, I couldnt hit a shot at the beginning of my career,, serious run at Nets point guard Jason Kidd in free agency, doesnt discuss the particular players hes working with, familiarizing himself with his new mechanics, NFL Week 8 Picks: The Weight of the Interim Label, Week 7 Picks: Welcome to Finding Your NFL Roots, We Went There: Clippers-Mavs and DeAndre Jordan Night in Los Angeles, Jalen and Jacoby: Discussing DeMarcus Cousins, the Thunder, and More, The Lowe Post Podcast: Howard Beck on Pursuing Kevin Durant, Five Minutes With Bulls Coach Fred Hoiberg, The Laughs, Pathos, and Overwhelming Talent of Jan Hooks, World Series Preview: Five Questions for Games Three and Four, 50 Scenes That Do Not Appear in the X-Files Revival. And for a group that already ranked in the top half of the league in three-point percentage (12th), Engellands coaching would likely be a major boost for the Timberwolves. We came up with a couple things, and he was all ears. What is his psychological makeup like as a shooter? 4. 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Sports-Reference.coms college basketball site has full-career data for NCAA players going back through the 1999 season. Before Duncan there was the Admiral, building on the foundation put down by George Gervin to help secure what had been a tenuous future in San Antonio for the Spurs -- something easy to forget after two decades of championship contention. [2] He got his first job in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the 19992000 season, serving as a shooting consultant for the Detroit Pistons. On the contrary, the 1998 team was quite skilled on the court, nastiness aside. Later, Engelland would coach Kerrs summer league teams before Kerr headed off to play at Arizona. Dated Jeanie Buss. They hadnt finished any higher than 14th in free throw accuracy during the Pop era before 2012-13, but they were third in free throw percentage last year and fourth this year. He first began by working at basketball camps, which helped him to build quite a reputation as a teacher and advisor. Check out Chip Engelland's College Stats, School, Draft, Gamelog, Splits and More College Stats at Sports-Reference.com Kerr wasnt playing many minutes. Chip Engelland est le shooting coach de Tony Parker. He will work hard over a long period of time for a goal. RELATED:The Kawhi Leonard companion: A Chad Forcier Q&A. According to Woj, the coach will work to develop the shooting habits across the young roster of players including Chet Holmgren, Josh Giddey, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Behind the scenes in San Antonio, theres Chip Engelland the man who has been quietly improving the Spurs offense. It was his three first-quarter three-pointers that helped spark the Spurs, but it was years worth of work and relationship building with Engelland that truly helped it happen.