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"Dan":

Dan Shamir always grew up wanting to be a coach until he became one working his way up from being an Assistant Coach with the arguably the best Euroleague team of all time at Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2003-2006. He successfully became a Head Coach multiple times most recently for the New Zealand Breakers 2019-2022 but was also able to switch back and forth to be an Assistant Coach again for Ettore Messina at CSKA Moscow 2013-14 & Milano 2022-23. He is currently the General Manager at Hapoel Jerusalem, switching roles yet again.

Today, I drilled Dan with different questions from the different avenues of his career, especially his mindset of becoming a Head Coach and switching to being an Assistant several times. We also talked about how to build a culture as a GM and what communication as well as standard of integrity has to be set internally.

Topics:
00:00 - Intro

1:13 Memories of working together

3:00 Willingness to change roles

6:00 Assistant as Maccabi Tel Aviv

9:30 Learning from Players / Pressure

18:00 Realization as a Head Coach

21:41 Staff as a team / Cultivating Trust

29:40 ProBallers.com

37:09 GM vs Coach

46:00 Cultivating a culture

54:10 Communication & Club Values

1:00:35 Dealing with Agents / Market

1:04:45 ATOs

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NEW EPISODE!

(EP#79)

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"Alan":

Alan Ibrahimagic, the interim Head Coach of Germany's basketball National Team who took over the team during Eurobasket 2025 while Coach Mumbru was battling unique health issues and lead the team to a gold medal. Alan is a household name in Germany and now he's known as the coach who stepped up and lead the already established National Team to gain another gold medal. He also coached the u19 team of Germany to a silver medal in the World Cup the same summer and has been an integral part of Germany's youth development in the last 15years.

Today, we obviously talked about this magic summer and how the process of coordinating the reversed roles went down. We also talked about his background and multi-cultural life experience and how it helps him in his job. Alan also told us about his role with the german federation and how the youth development in Germany has changed over the last 15-20 years...what were the big moves that helped Germany to becoming the driving force?

Topics:
00:00 - Intro

1:30 - Role-transfer & Trust

9:00 Handling a winning streak

14:45 International Background

22:30 Balancing negativity vs positivity

27:36 ProBallers.com

34:05 Germany's basketball system

43:00 Key for youth coaches

48:30 Developing coaches

55:40 ATOs

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Šis epizodas – paskutinis B8 Summit 2025 renginio pokalbis, suvedęs Lietuvos sporto lyderius! Per visą round-table diskusiją buvo paliesta daugybė temų, kurias aptarė Tomas Okmanas, Jonas Valančiūnas, Paulius Motiejūnas ir Rimantas Kaukėnas, taip pat pasidalijo savo įžvalgomis. Išgirdome daug įdomių minčių apie komunikaciją ir žinučių valdymą.

Tomas Okmanas išsamiai pasakojo apie dirbtinio intelekto (AI) įtaką sportui ir tai, kaip AI galės keisti @Žalgiris statistikos analizę ateityje. Paulius Motiejūnas atvirai kalbėjo apie NBA įtaką Europai ir Emiratų vaidmenį krepšinio kontekste. Jonas Valančiūnas pasidalijo asmenine patirtimi iš NBA, atskleisdamas, kaip svarbi yra komunikacija su komandos draugais ir treneriais. Rimantas Kaukėnas prisiminė savo laiką „Vilkų“ komandoje, pabrėždamas glaudų bendradarbiavimą su vyriausiuoju treneriu ir jo gilesnį supratimą apie Lietuvos krepšinio kultūrą.

Pokalbio temos:
3:00 – Laisvalaikis ir poilsis11:30 – Žinučių valdymas20:30 – Vidinė komunikacija39:50 – Moderni komunikacija46:40 – Statistika ir AI įtaka59:20 – Europos žemėlapis ir NBA įtaka1:14:10 – Emiratų įtaka1:17:00 – Q&A

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