Guest: Matt McMahon, Murray State Head Coach
 
Murray State head coach Matt McMahon joins the Basketball Podcast to share his insights on in-game coaching strategies and situations.
 
The 2021-22 season marks the seventh for Coach Matt McMahon to lead the Murray State men’s basketball program. Heading into the season, McMahon is the dean of coaches in the Ohio Valley Conference with six complete seasons. He was named the Racers’ 16th head coach on June 9, 2015. At the time, he was the third-youngest rookie head coach in NCAA D-I. In 2020, McMahon joined a select group of Racer coaches to have three-consecutive 20-win seasons.
 
McMahon's overall mark in six seasons at Murray State is 123-64 (.657). He's the twelfth in 16 Murray State head coaches to have a winning percentage of 60 percent or better. In his first six seasons at MSU, McMahon's Racers have won OVC games at a .707 clip with a mark of 75-31. In the 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20 seasons, MSU won three-straight OVC regular-season titles and won two OVC Tournament titles which led the NCAA appearances in 2018 and 2019.
 
McMahon has been associated with some of the greats in MSU history both as an assistant and as head coach. In nine seasons at MSU (four as assistant for Steve Prohm and six as head coach), McMahon has coached an impressive group of All-Ohio Valley Conference performers including Isaiah Canaan, Donte Poole, Ivan Aska, Ed Daniel, Jarvis Williams, Cameron Payne, Jeffery Moss, Jonathan Stark, Terrell Miller, Shaq Buchanan, Darnell Cowart, Ja Morant, Tevin Brown, and KJ Williams. Stark and Morant were the OVC Player of the Year winners and OVC Male Athlete of the Year selections in 2018 and 2019.
 
Breakdown
1:00 - Approaching League Schedule
3:00 - Scout Preparation 
6:30 - Empowering Players and Staff
8:00 - Communication
10:00 - Being Responsible for Rebounding
12:00 - Watching Defensive Transition
14:00 - Ball Screen Coverage
16:00 - Watching The Clock
19:00 - Winning and Communicating
25:00 - Group and Individual Communication
27:00 - Rewarding Players and Bench Players
30:00 - His 5 Core Values
35:30 - Team Culture
37:30 - What To Say In-Game
39:30 - Players Emotional State
41:00 - Triggers To Timeout
44:00 - Interventions on Timeouts
45:00 - Charting and Game Goals
50:00 - Playing Time
52:00 - Specific Play Calls
55:00 - Consistency of Success
57:00 - Favorite Books
59:00 - Conclusion
 
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/coachmcmahon (https://twitter.com/coachmcmahon)
 
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