Andreas Pistiolis – On the Assistant Coach Duties, Importance of Sharing information, Dynamics within the coaching staff and the importance of NOT taking yourself too seriously.

Andreas Pistiolis is the long time Assistent Coach at CSKA Moscow under the guidance of Coach Dimitris Itoudis. Andreas realized early (age 14) how much he loved coaching & teaching players and found his way into the youth program of Panathinaikos. Soon enough he received an invite by the senior team to join the coaching staff and help Coach Dimitris Itoudis to prepare scouting reports and break down film to help Zeljko Obradovic form a winning dynasty at Panathinaikos. He established himself as the ‘right hand’ of Dimitris Itoudis and followed Coach Itoudis to Banvit in 2013 to become his 1st Assistant there. After just one successful year in Turkey,  Andreas followed his mentor to Russia and off course continued to win titles together. After establishing a winning mentality in Greece & in Turkey he continued his success as the top Assistant in the Russian powerhouse. Since the arrival in Moscow in 2014, Andreas celebrated two Euroleague titles (2016 & 2019) and won 5 VTB championships as well. 

Andreas gave me the impression of being a very humbled and down to earth personality who knows what he wants in life. On this episode, Andreas and me went on a deep-dive of what it means to be an Assistant Coach at the top level and the duties and expectations that come with it during games and off the court. He opened up about his path to coaching and gave great insights on what the position of an Assistant Coach really means. We also had an interesting discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of sharing scouting information with other teams/coaches/scouts, relationship with players, Coaching Staff dynamics and the communication and handling of information in regards to players and coaching staff. Lots of valuable information in this very niche episode.

Topics:

• Intro
• Background & History
• Panathinaikos Career
• Early Challenges/Paradigm Shift
• Politics / Exchanging Information
• Communicating w/Players
• Coaching Staff Dynamics
• Scouting/Video Process 
• Managing Time/Work
• Biggest Duties of Ast. Coach
• Common In-Game questions
• Reflecting After the Game
• Post Game Video
• Areas of Self Improvement
• Dreams/Goals
• Path outside Basketball
• Teaching 1st Lesson
• Sliding Door Moment
• Advice to Ast. Coach

Finding Andreas:

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/apistiolis/ 
Twitter – https://twitter.com/APistiolis 

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