Chris Ballard also tells the story in The Art of a Beautiful Game and says it was Engelland. Spurs Notes: K. Johnson, Primo, Wesley, Branham, Engelland. Kawhi was straight up not a good shooter until he got into the Spurs org. Belinelli, who was already about to join his fifth team after just six seasons in the league, hadnt offered much during his lone season in Chicago, where he helped fill in for the injured Derrick Rose. Here it is, in its entirety: What a silly mistake. To put what hes done in context, consider that Leonard shot an even 25 percent (41-for-164) on his 3-point attempts during his two years at school. 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. Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland passes the ball to veteran guard Manu Ginobili after the teams first official practice on Sept. 27, 2014. 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UPDATE #1: Bill Barnwell responded to my email, in which I asked whether the drill for Kerr was created by Fraser or Engelland. Spurs shooting coach Chip Engelland (right) works with guard Tony Parker prior to their pre-season game against the Philadelphia 76ers at the SBC Center on Thursday, October 27, 2005. Kerr wasnt playing many minutes. By the end of the year, Peltons numbers had Belinelli down for 3.6 WARP (wins above replacement player). Jeff McDonald began covering the Spurs for the San Antonio Express-News in September 2007, three months after the team's fourth championship. Now heres what Rusty Simmons wrote about Bruce Fraser, who is an assistant coach for the Warriors under Steve Kerr and working with Steph Curry. Is that something that is continually tweaked throughout his first year, and down the line? As DraftExpress noted before the 2011 lottery, virtually every one of Leonards shooting metrics from his time at San Diego State were abysmal. He had so much to learn, him and Cory Joseph both. Ranking the five best players in Spurs history. Does he bounce back quickly from setbacks? Chris Ballard covered Engellands work with Parker in his excellent bookThe Art of a Beautiful Game: In Parkers case, the first thing Engelland noted was that while his form was exemplary on his one-handed runners and teardrops, Parker held the ball differently on his jump shot. A shots very personal. 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. The longtime Spurs assistant coach and well-known shooting guru has no. His work with individual players is. Or is it a little of both? fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); Engelland:We knew when he came back, how much it had stuck with him and he took it to heart. With Engelland's help at every shot along the way. Kerr gave me the anecdote in March, and I wrote about it when Klay Thompson was in a shooting slump. That takes years and years of honing, in games.. He wants to get better. But he still played, and got paid, like one for the majority of his prime. 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. Engelland, described as a shot whisperer, helped former Spurs star Kawhi Leonard work on his jump shot after turning pro. Engelland, 56, is the teams shooting coach. The next time youre thrown into those tests, youre better. Here's what you should know. We both grewup in Southern California. Chip Engelland (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images). Thats in college or in high school. Chris Finch and company should do everything they can to add him to the coaching staff. He did play professionally . Its hard to find a category where he isnt having his best season. Unlocking all the things that make a player great. 6.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game and shooting 39.8% from three-point range. And I think he did. Below is a litany of articles on the adjustments Leonard made (note the gif above) with Engellands guidance along with a document of my favorite quotes about the process. 5. Kerr "worked out" for 30 minutes and shot six shots. Back in April 2014, Bill Barnwell wrote a fascinating piece about Spurs coach Chip Engelland: The Shot Doctor.. I honestly dont know. C'est lui qui a aid le basketteur franais a amlior sa technique au lancer. Hes been great.. Jul 12, 2022 1:15 AM. With Kerr playing reduced minutes in Portland as a 36-year-old during the 2001-02 campaign, he found himself struggling to stay loose for meaningful shooting opportunities. Hes in San Diego, every day is perfect, and instead of three, he only goes to the gym twice. And after finishing 51st out of 86 in the league in 3-point percentage a year ago (among guys with 100 or more attempts) by converting 35.7 percent of his shots from beyond the arc, not only did Belinelli hit a full 43 percent of his 3sthis past year, he won the 3-point shootout duringAll-Star Weekend. It was an honest, but strangely specific, mistake. 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. Sign up for the Layup Lines newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. Assistant coach Chip Engelland, who has been with the team since . Is he the one who will come to you and say, I want to get shots up or is it the other way around? 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. We all know the rest of the story. 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. After graduating from Duke in 1983, Engelland went on to play professionally for nine years. Assuming that Fraser did not tell Simmons the story about flying up to Portland to work with Kerr, developing a shooting drill that involved him sitting most of the time, reading a newspaper, Im left thinking that Simmons stumbled across, or knew, the anecdote about Engelland and mistakenly attributed it to Fraser. So, beginning with training camp in the fall of 2005, Engelland reconstructed Parkers shot, moving his right hand down, his right thumb out to widen his grip, slowing down his motion and even changing his release point. "It was kind of remarkable if you look back at it," Elfus said. The fine-tuning continues. 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. Chip, use your magic on Josh Giddey & I'll build you a statue personally. Moore, the athletic 6-foot-4 forward, played in Mexico after they left the country at the height of the 1986 EDSA Revolution. Deadspin reporter Kevin Draper found numerous examples where Simmons cut-and-pasted press releases for copy in his own articles, so maybe what were seeing here is just sloppy or lazy journalism. What is his psychological makeup like as a shooter? He wants to play and represent a country, and that's great," Engelland said . Kerr was in the middle of a shooting slump and went to dinner with his wife and Engelland. Click Here. -Meet the NBA Shot Doctors (LINK) Chip Engelland, a Spurs' assistant coach and shooting guru, has been a huge part of smoothing out and simplifying the shooting motion of Leonard, almost instantly making him a reliable. 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. Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) July 27, 2022, Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) July 27, 2022, Josh Giddey to the fn moon. His team went a league-best 62-20, without a single player averaging 30 minutes per game and after an offseason in which the Spurs lost Popovichs two primary assistants. It's easy to forget that Jackson was a damn good player in his day, averaging at least 18 points in five different seasons. A starter from Day 1, he's since blossomed into the reigning Defensive Player of the Year and one of the NBA's very best two-way players. Chip Engelland:I guess we can start from the beginning, before the draft. "I came in during the lockout year, so I really didn't know my teammates well or the head coach, so I was learning on the fly in games," Leonard said Wednesday. Furthermore, his presence on the staff allows general manager R.C. Engelland, described as a shot whisperer, helped former Spurs star Kawhi Leonard work on his jump shot after turning pro. Virtually all of that comes down to Belinellis shooting; if Pelton replaced Belinellis actual shooting rates with the figures he projected for Belinelli before the season, Belinellis WARP falls all the way down to 0.2, leaving him as basically roster filler. 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. 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. I think we did one different thing this summer. Longtime San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland is departing the franchise at the conclusion of his contract, according to league sources. "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. LaMarcus Aldridge, $19,690,000, 2015-16. Chip Engelland 1982-1983: Jay Bilas 1983-1984: Jay Bilas 1984-1985 . Don't try to push it out to the 3-point line at first. Engelland:On a lot of drafts, you hear somebody is a gym rat, loves the gym. Chip Engelland, shooting guru and long-time Spurs assistant coach, has left the franchise to join the Oklahoma City Thunder. 7. He is currently an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association . Engelland isnt solely responsible for all of that, since the offense helps get Belinelli better shots and the Italian actually has to line up and drain them, but is Engelland responsible for, say, 20 percent of that improvement? Who, every day, stared up into the stoic eyes of Tim Duncan, my sports hero growing up. 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 changes had an instant impact. Some of the players will take a few shots, just because there are baskets there. Back in 2011, with the NBA lockout looming on July 1, the Spurs hurriedly signed Kawhi Leonard and ushered him to the gym for four days to work with legendary shooting coach Chip Engelland. 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. In terms of how Engelland can change Minnesotas outlook, there are several players that would benefit from his coaching expertise right away. Most skills coaches in the NBA arent household names for obvious reasons, but Engelland is about as close as youre going to get to one. Assistant coach Chip Engelland will leave the San Antonio Spurs after the end of his contract, sources told Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report. Those four days, he practiced and said, OK Im going to take this and do it over the summer.. He bought into it for sure. They lost in the championship game, so the winning element was still around. Obviously having Chip England here one of the best shooting coaches if not the best in the world here at the Thunder is someone thats perfect for me to use as much as possible. Spurs Coach Chip Engelland On Kawhi Leonard And His Shooting Techniques - YouTube San Antonio Spurs shooting guru and coach Chip Engelland talks about working with Kawhi Leonard on his. Engelland earned an NBA ring with the Spurs in 2007 and is looking for another one this month as the Spurs, with the homecourt advantage under the comebacking 2-2-1-1-1 (home-road) format, go up against the two-time reigning champion Miami Heat in the best-of-seven NBA Finals for a second consecutive year. Belinelli hit 44 percent of his 2-pointers before arriving in San Antonio; this year, he has hit a whopping 52.5 percent of those shots. The kid was shooting one way for his whole life, and then he changed it in that short period of time. He counsels and instructs, dismantles and reassembles. Kin Man Hui / San . 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. His high school predecessor noted that since Kerr had a sore knee that was affecting his balance, hed do well to widen his base. 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. But Engelland planted a seed that sparked Leonard's summer workout plan, and the evolution had officially begun. Engelland, the Spurs' shooting coach, was firing off passes and instructions intermittently to the likes of Da'Juan Blair and Tiago Splitter as San Antonio looked to take a commanding 3-0 lead on the Los Angeles Clippers in the Western Conference semifinals. Soyou send him off with what instructions? You get to know your shot better. It was June 25, 2011. That ranks second in the NBA behind the Golden State Warriors. The Casa De Spurs Podcast is available everywhere, including: (function(d, s, id) { Why do I mention this here, on a San Antonio Spurs fansite? Just as Engelland rebuilt Parkers shot and helped create a team cornerstone, he has built one again in Leonard. Engelland served as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs starting from the 200506 season, and won two championships with the Spurs in 2007 and 2014. In addition, see exclusive interviews with NBA players and coaches, from active super stars to retired legends.Part of the SB Nation sports network. OKC Dynasty https://t.co/yxiRInFCWb, Ryan Hammer (@ryanhammer09) July 27, 2022, Big time move for OKC and a lot of guys on this young team but especially for Josh Giddey https://t.co/15f2n4EQoI, Keandre (Hoop Intellect) (@HoopIntelllect) July 27, 2022, Josh Giddey with a jump shot https://t.co/qmJqyfcMaJ pic.twitter.com/Y6yrt3d2TO, Jeremy 'Da Dermy' Lambert (@jeremylambert88) July 27, 2022, Josh Giddey's going to be shooting like Curry by the season's end https://t.co/gGmRgVwAOC, Jackson Floyd (@Jacks0nFloyd) July 27, 2022, Josh Giddey under the tutelage of Chip Engelland pic.twitter.com/KC9H6PuAYp, Stan SGA Boomer Sooner (Hunter Harjo) (@hunterharjo7) July 27, 2022, Josh Giddey after a season with Chip Engelland: pic.twitter.com/6RWrwPiTPd, Boomtown Hoops (@BoomtownHoops) July 27, 2022, Josh Giddey really about to be the best player on the planet, Jack Monaco (@jackjmonaco) July 27, 2022, A Josh Giddey hire. Then, hed return to the bench. Belinelli instead shot 52.5 percent from 2and 43.0 percent from 3. He shot pretty far back behind his head, but he had good grip and he had some nice tools.". That was the requirement that Chip Engelland requested when approached to do an interview. -Spurs assistant Engelland explains how he strengthened Leonards outside shot (LINK) 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. He didnt have much semblance of a jump shot and was not expected to be an offensive threat coming out of San Diego State. Thats not a joke. Chip Engelland was hardly a shooting slouch in his own right. If Tony (Parker) or Kawhi comes over to me, they can say, I didnt follow through on those two. Thats music to my ears. The Oklahoma City Thunder are reportedly hiring longtime San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland, per ESPNs Adrian Wojnarowski. 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. Did you know you were getting a player this dedicatedwhen the Spurs drafted him? UPDATE #2: I received an email from Rusty Simmons. The Spurs won a title a month before his hire after defeating the Detroit Pistons in a thrilling seven-game series. Engelland, 61, served as an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons (1999-2000) and Denver Nuggets (2003-2005) before arriving to San Antonio in 2005. Tony Parker, $13,500,000, 2010-11. You cant just run roughshod over your teammates to try to do that. Giving him a weapon of KATs caliber could lead to some unbelievable results. Kerr told Engelland about his problem and the shooting expert flew up and offered a solution: a 30-minute, seven-shot workout. 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. So its a good thing the Wolves signed two former Spurs this offseason in Kyle Anderson and Bryn Forbes.

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