You get to know your shot better. If Tony (Parker) or Kawhi comes over to me, they can say, I didnt follow through on those two. Thats music to my ears. He knew the benefits would be down the road.. "He has a great feel and understanding of what makes players tick and how to deal with them especially Kawhi," Leonard's agent, Brian Elfus of Impact Sports, said of Engelland. Before the season, ESPN Insider Kevin Peltons SCHOENE projection system used Belinellis prior performance to suggest that he would hit 44.0 percent of his 2-pointers and 39.4 percent of his 3s. Before teaming up with the winningest coach in NBA history, Gregg Popovich, his hoops career was touched by some of the game's most legendary figures. That creates a perpetual advantage that goes beyond one player and one shot. . One area he doesn't get enough credit for is his willingness to take less, a key factor in the Spurs' ability to keep their championship core together for so many years. Ginobili has only made two All-Star teams in his career. Engelland: "Just to be patient, not get too down. Instead, inverting the Parker story, Belinelli has taken 3s more frequently, been better at hitting them, and has come to dominate in the paint; after hitting just 90 of 177 layups (50.8 percent) in 2012-13, Belinellis converted 91 of 124 layups (73.4 percent) in 2013-14. So, Fraser had Kerr re-enact his usual 48-minute game without Kerr realizing it. [1][3] In 2022, Engelland signed as an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder, where he works today. Engelland:We knew when he came back, how much it had stuck with him and he took it to heart. The Thunder are hiring renowned shooting guru Chip Engelland as an assistant coach ahead of the 2022-23 season, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. 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. Engelland has become one of the more underrated faces in the game of basketball during his time with the Spurs. Neal himself was another Engelland project; after making 35.9 percent of his 3sin college, Neal upped that to 39.8 percent during his three years in San Antonio, including that memorable night with six 3s against the Heat in Game 3 of last years Finals. Its hard to imagine that tiny shift of weight even being perceptible to an observer, but Kerr noted that Engelland is capable of seeing things in a shooters motion that even Kerr, the leagues most accurate 3-point shooter ever, wouldnt notice. The Oklahoma City Thunder are reportedly hiring longtime San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland, per ESPNs Adrian Wojnarowski. Watch this clip of his 32-point game against the Knicks this year and you get a good idea of how the Spurs use Belinelli when things are going well for him; virtually everything is catch-and-shoot, and unsurprisingly, considering the opposition, most of the shots are open ones. Its nice when you get to watch it in person. RELATED:The Kawhi Leonard companion: A Chad Forcier Q&A. So what does this mean for the Minnesota Timberwolves? He's helped improve perimeter shooting from many who have worn the Silver and Black uniform such as Tony Parker, Keldon. Shooting coach Chip Engelland has worked with Tony Parker since joining the Spurs in 2005, helping the All-Star guard improve his jumper without sacrificing his tear-drop. 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. Thats the sixth-best rate in the league for a player of Belinellis size or smaller. Jeff McDonald began covering the Spurs for the San Antonio Express-News in September 2007, three months after the team's fourth championship. Giving him a weapon of KATs caliber could lead to some unbelievable results. Engelland asked for permission to change Leonard's shot, to perform a "tune-up," as he called it, on the player who shot 43.5% overall and 27.5% from three-point range in his final collegiate season but hit 52.2% of his shots overall and 37.5% of his threes this season. But that doesnt make any sense, does it? 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. Leonards effort was well worth it. Tony Parker, $13,500,000, 2010-11. [2] He got his first job in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the 19992000 season, serving as a shooting consultant for the Detroit Pistons. Because you have to do all that within your team game. Youve got to pull him out of the gym. Unlocking all the things that make a player great. Engelland comes to the Thunder after 17 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs , where he had been significantly credited with the shooting development of young players like Kawhi Leonard . (Kin Man Hui/staff). Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) July 27, 2022, Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) July 27, 2022, Josh Giddey to the fn moon. As good as Engelland is at helping players improve their shots, these things take time. Even though the Spurs publicly suggest now that they would have been able to play Parker and Kidd in the same lineup, its unlikely that San Antoniowould have been optimally employing itsresources, especially given Parkers limitations at the time. 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. He counsels and instructs, dismantles and reassembles. I showed him pictures of Richard, and pictures of himself. This is a carousel. Popovich and general manager R.C. Hes been great.. Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) July 11, 2022. In fact, the entire team has gotten much better from the charity stripe. He backed off some, because he knew he had a long season ahead.. Chip Engelland est le shooting coach de Tony Parker. Its very tough. Round1 opens in San Antonio this Saturday. Sometimes, hed start reading a newspaper or start asking Kerr about his family. The one criticism of Giddeys game so far has been his shootingand ability to hit the scoreboard. Hes also become a much better free throw shooter, having hit 69.7 percent of his free throws before Engelland changed his shot and 77.2 percent of his freebies since.4 Altogether, since Engelland came to San Antonio, the only guard who has hit a higher percentage of his 2-point shots than Parker is Steve Nash.5 Chip Engelland might very well be the difference between Tony Parker, very good point guard, and Tony Parker, future Hall of Famer. But Engelland planted a seed that sparked Leonard's summer workout plan, and the evolution had officially begun. Its hard to find a category where he isnt having his best season. The 88's played their home games at the Olympic Saddledome.Their best players during their time in Calgary consisted of Jim Thomas (Indiana) Chip Engelland (Duke), Darryl . The promise is there for the Australian-born standout, who is one of nine players in NBA history with career averages of at least 12 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists per game. As such, there was an expectation Giddey could struggle early in the 2022-23 season as he made small tweaks. If Chip Engelland can turn Josh Giddey into a DECENT shooter, he's going to be a super star. 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. While Leonard was still considered a talented player and was only 19 on draft day, his primary contributions at the professional level at least at first were expected to come from his defense, effort, and rebounding. Leonard blossomed into an offensive superstar, due in no small part to Chip Engelland. Make or miss, Fraser would go back to the bench. That is well below the league average last season and ranked in the 8th percentile among players at his position, per Cleaning the Glass. Kerr and Engelland would sit alone on the bench in the Portland practice facility after everybody else had left. MIAMI "The Shot Doctor," as some have deemed him, was drawing more attention than normal Wednesday. Kerr was in the middle of a shooting slump and went to dinner with his wife and Engelland. In the NBA today, player development is more important than its ever been. 4. https://t.co/wmChd2YhgL, Matt Lawson (@NBADynastyADP) July 27, 2022. I Ccd Draper in the aforementioned letter to Barnwell. 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. (If you havent already, I encourage you to read the entire article here.). And of course, the lockout hits a week after hes drafted, and youre not going to be able to help at all during that time. Engelland wasn't much of a defender or playmaker but he totaled 1,025 points in his Duke career before going on to. He would become Engellands first pet project in Texas. Popovich credits Engelland for San Antonio's free-throw accuracy.. Before Duncan there was the Admiral, building on the foundation put down by George Gervin to help secure what had been a tenuous future in San Antonio for the Spurs -- something easy to forget after two decades of championship contention. Here it is, in its entirety: What a silly mistake. Its not unreasonable to think either could end the season with a shooting percentage in the high 30s under Engellands tutelage. "Watching him in San Diego, twice a day every day, taking hundreds of jump shots, made me realize that he bought in to it. All rights reserved. Fraser simply wanted Kerr to shoot better and suggested a never-before-tried drill to do it. Longtime San Antonio Spurs assistant and shooting coach Chip Engelland will leave the franchise at the conclusion of his contract, per a report Monday from Bleacher Report. Josh Giddey's outside shot needs development. Giddey led all rookies in assists per game during his promising rookie campaign. https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/thunder-chip-engelland-hired-shooting-guru-spurs-josh-giddey, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. For the Minnesota Timberwolves, good coaching and development should play a major part in determining how far this talented group can go in 2022-23. He wants to play and represent a country, and that's great," Engelland said . UPDATE #1: Bill Barnwell responded to my email, in which I asked whether the drill for Kerr was created by Fraser or Engelland. That takes years and years of honing, in games.. I got to see it in person. 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. Jaden McDaniels, who shot just 31.7 percent from three this past season, would be a huge beneficiary of the shot doctors work. 2. By the end of the year, Peltons numbers had Belinelli down for 3.6 WARP (wins above replacement player). Hes a throwback in the way that he doesnt need immediate satisfaction. "It was kind of remarkable if you look back at it," Elfus said. 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. 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. "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. Again, the fix seems impossibly simple in hindsight. He wants to get better. He is a. Ranking the five best players in Spurs history. I think his scoring average has gone up each year not by 10 points, but 2 or 3 points each year. SAN ANTONIO - DECEMBER 13: Assistant coach Chip Engelland of the San Antonio Spurs looks on from the sideline during the game against the Los Angeles Clippers on December 13, 2005 at the SBC. Leonard who averaged a career-high 12.8 points a game during the regular season but had never scored more than 26 points in an NBA preseason, regular-season or playoff game was different from the rest of Engelland's pet projects. Perhaps owing to the effort Tom Thibodeau shouts and grimaces out of every Bulls player on defense, Belinelli posted a .460 effective field goal percentageduring his season with the Bulls, his lowest as a pro. Chris Ballard also tells the story in The Art of a Beautiful Game and says it was Engelland. Engelland:We know what he likes. Kerr and Engelland would sit alone on the bench in the Portland practice facility after everybody else had left. Two days earlier, the Spurs had pulled the trigger on the most daring draft-day. When he was in, hed get a shot or two. After Engelland graduated, Kerr took over the starring role on the team. Parker has gotten his share of heat in San Antonio, and some of it deserved. . Subsequently, he lettered four seasons at Duke University, scoring more than 1,000 points for coach Mike Krzyzewski's Blue Devils and being named the team's captain in his senior year.[1][2]. I evaluate shooters for the draft. In their defense, the Spurs didn't sign the underachieving Jefferson to this bloated contract. Im glad we got this sorted out. Then they come to the pros and have a lot of different options in life. But among that group, Giddeys 3-point percentage is lower than each of those players except for Ben Simmons (the only player on that list other than Doncic not to win an MVP). He was very interested in improving. Today Chip Engelland is sixty-years-old. Spurs Notes: K. Johnson, Primo, Wesley, Branham, Engelland. We all talked (as a staff). Its like a great pitcher when do I throw the curve, or the change-up. "I didn't really know the players until about the end of the year. Earlier today, I read an interesting article about Golden State Warriors assistant coach Bruce Fraser in the San Francisco Chronicle: The Curry Whisperer: Shot guru Fraser has MVPs ear.. [4], Engelland is married to Jessica Grunow of Troy, Michigan. David Robinson, $14,841,000, 1998-99. 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. Engelland:At a certain point in anybodys rookie season, you back off and let him learn the league, learn the Spurs. Engelland has been with the Spurs since July 2005. I walked into pre-draft camp, and Kawhi wasnt scheduled to work out. So, if Engelland can have this dramatic of an impact upon his charges shooting ability, how much is he worth to the Spurs? Click through the slideshow to see which Spurs earned the most. During the 1999-2000 season, he became a shooting consultant with the Detroit Pistons. Some of the players will take a few shots, just because there are baskets there. The Spurs planned for years in order to have enough money to throw at a max free agent this summer. But they still traded for him anyway, one of the rare miscues of R.C. Kawhi was straight up not a good shooter until he got into the Spurs org. The longtime Spurs assistant coach and well-known shooting guru has no. MANILA, Philippines - San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland, who became a naturalized Filipino in the 1980s, offered some words of advice for Brooklyn Nets big man Andray Blatche, the latest recruit of Gilas Pilipinas. He first began by working at basketball camps, which helped him to build quite a reputation as a teacher and advisor. "This offseason,. 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. 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. . Just as Engelland rebuilt Parkers shot and helped create a team cornerstone, he has built one again in Leonard. I honestly dont know. Join in via the comments below or on Twitter and Facebook!TWITTER: http://bit.ly/BBallTweetsFACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/BBallFBWEBSITE: http://bit.ly/BBallWebABOUT BBALLBREAKDOWNBBallBreakdown is devoted to deep-dive analysis of NBA basketball gameplay. The San Antonio roster is full of players whose shots miraculously improved once they were under his care from Tony Parker to Patty Mills to Kawhi Leonard, the Game 3 star who made 10 of 13 shots for 29 points. That was the requirement that Chip Engelland requested when approached to do an interview. Shooting coach Chip Engelland has worked with Tony Parker since joining the Spurs in 2005, helping the All-Star guard improve his jumper without sacrificing his tear-drop. Parkers more recent shot charts show how effective he can be in the midrange game, as he has been for the Spurs in 2013-14. Per club policy terms of his contract were not announced. Jul 12, 2022 1:15 AM. We thought Kawhi could change, too. This is an opportunity the Timberwolves should jump on for a multitude of reasons. He would have needed a ticket or a television to watch the contest that time a year ago, let alone participate. Engelland, in fact, became a naturalized citizen of the Philippines and played for their national team (sponsored inimitably as San Miguel Beer) in the 1985 Jones Cup, where Engelland dropped 43 points on a Gene Keady-coached United States team in a double-overtime thriller.2. There wasn't much of it still available, but I now own all of it. 68K views 1 year ago Arthur "Chip" Engelland, a former member of the Philippine national basketball team in the 1980s, is well known in basketball circles as the "Shot Doctor". When San Antonio acquired Kawhi Leonard in 2011, they got a player who was a defensive stalwart, but very limited offensively. Chip Engelland was hardly a shooting slouch in his own right. Showing Editorial results for chip engelland. 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. var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; At this point, you really have no idea what Leonard is like personally. "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. They didnt reconnect until the 1993-94 season. Oklahoma City Thunder News / FanNation Inside The Thunder / July 28. He did play professionally . Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland (left) and point guard Tony Parker chat during the NBA Finals practice and media session at the AT&T Center on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Its also possible that Chip has never worked with a shooter as precise as Karl-Anthony Towns. The Spurs will play the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals starting on Thursday. Filed Under: NBA, San Antonio Spurs, Tony Parker, Kawhi Leonard, Marco Belinelli, Bill Barnwell. Repeat six more times and youve got the leagues most unlikely and simultaneously most logical shooting workout. One of my great compliments to Kawhi is, even after four years, he still loves the gym. So its a good thing the Wolves signed two former Spurs this offseason in Kyle Anderson and Bryn Forbes. They didnt get training camp. Some of the improvements Belinelli has made since arriving in San Antonio are undoubtedly a product of the Spurs offense getting him open looks and funneling him into places where he takes smarter shots. In this case, it might be more remarkable to note the changes Engelland hasnt made; namely, hes resisted the urge to rebuild Belinellis shot and allowed him to retain much of his old motion, with Belinelli often leaning away from the basket like some tiny, abbreviated Dirk Nowitzki impersonation. He will work hard over a long period of time for a goal. Once you start adding other pieces to his game drives and post-ups and turnaround jumpers, etc do you ever have to come back to the shooting form, to make sure theres no slippage? 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. In it, Barnwell describes how Engelland helped Steve Kerr when he was playing in Portland. "Shooting was a big. In college, he stayed near the basket, although he was a good ball-handler. So he and Engelland did whole workouts where Steve would shoot one shot, then go and sit down for five minutes. In 1993, Engelland started his coaching career, introducing his basketball camps Chip Shots with the aim of helping players of all ages improve their shooting skills; two years later he founded the In-Net Corporation, strengthening his reputation as a clinician . Parkers struggles led defenses to leave him open in key situations, and the pressure led Popovich to lean on backup Speedy Claxton over his starting point guard late in games during the 2002-03 Finals against the Nets. He always wants more shots. Chris Finch and company should do everything they can to add him to the coaching staff. It was an honest, but strangely specific, mistake. Who suggested a never-before-tried drill to Kerr? His work with individual players is. On the other hand, Simmons was recently suspended after writing a news story on the Warriors purchase of land for their new arena that was copied almost entirely from a Warriors press release. Perhaps that explains why he might have taken a story about one NBA coach and attributed it to another, to make his piece more interesting. -Rookie Leonard gives Spurs unexpected scoring help (LINK), For more on shooting: At some point, it becomes yours. [2] He was known by Filipino fans as "the Machine Gun" for his superb shooting skills. In addition, see exclusive interviews with NBA players and coaches, from active super stars to retired legends.Part of the SB Nation sports network.