0 comments by John Townsend and Wendell Maxey on 12/30/2015
One time I made a huge mistake, and now I can’t help but look back and laugh about it. It was in February, 2007 during my time working for the NBA Development League as the shooting coach, where I would travel from team to team and work with players. On this particular day, I had driven from […]
0 comments by John Townsend and Wendell Maxey on 12/8/2015
As a shooting coach, the language I use when working with players is an extremely important part of my coaching philosophy and as teaching tools. This vocabulary is the same regardless if I am working with youth players, college athletes, or NBA pros and is intended to match visually what the technique is I’m trying […]
0 comments by John Townsend and Wendell Maxey on 11/24/2015
Looking back on my experiences as a shooting coach in the NBA, there are a lot of players I have enjoyed working with from my time in Portland, Toronto and now Memphis. But there are four players in particular who I have learned a great deal from and who have helped influence my coaching philosophies these […]
0 comments by John Townsend and Wendell Maxey on 11/19/2015
This is the beginning of my 8th season in the NBA and it’s a huge deal to me because I’ve been able to do something I love for those 8-years at the highest level of basketball. This story of my journey ran last November with Josh Chapin from the Palladium-Item in Richmond, Indiana, and a […]
0 comments by John Townsend and Wendell Maxey on 11/15/2015
Why now at this time in my life and during my career as a shooting coach would I consider launching this project? I have been in the NBA for the last eight seasons and five seasons during my time coaching in the NBA Development League. But over the last four years, this idea of sharing […]
