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This week we're joined by coach Jamin Copeland, head men's basketball coach at Ave Maria

University.

Recently, this past season, he led his team to a conference tournament championship

and back-to-back appearances in the NAA national tournament with first-round wins.

With 15 years of head coaching experience, in this episode,

Jamin shares the ends and outs of how he implemented an aggressive style and fast-paced system.

Let's get started.

Hey, welcome to the Hardwood Hustle.

Sam and I, we've got a good friend on today, Jamie Copeland.

He's the head coach at Ave Maria, and you've heard

his bio in the pre-introduction here of all the things that he's accomplished. He's coached just

about every level of basketball and had a really, really successful year this year after making

the switch to a different type of system of play. And so we're going to talk about that system of play. But before we get to that system of play, we're going to talk about holistic decision making for a coach, thinking about, you know, what are all the things that need to be thought through before I actually go into this? And I've made this mistake before. And I'll share some of that as the episode goes on, but not making decisions in a silo. And so, Jamin, first of all, welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks for having me. T.J. and Sam, good to see you guys. And if you don't know, Jamie, Jamon's ripped, man. This guy, he just, he lives in the gym, so he looks the part. So if you're just listening, you're wanting a visualist guy, just kind of like Hulk kind of is what he looks like.

But, Jamie, you're wanting a visualist guy, just kind of like Hulk, kind of is what he looks like.

But, Jamie, you made the decision to go to a really up-tempo, fast-paced, which is catching on, especially at, you know, I'd love to see Crutchfield get a job at D1 and see what happens.

And everyone, I think, would love to see that.

And we've seen guys like Ben McCollum and them go up and have great success.

And, but oftentimes the style of play, people wonder, would it work at this at Division

one level or the pro level or whatever?

Probably not at the pro level, but it's a Division I level.

But it has been really, really successful in small college basketball.

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