EP#91 | Dražen Orešković: Basketball in Syria, Developing Jusuf Nurkic & Croatia Basketball

About this episode

Dražen Orešković discusses his coaching career, player development, and basketball culture in Syria and Croatia.

NEW EPISODE! (EP#91) If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): Support: https://www.patreon.com/c/bmatke Homepage: www.bmatke.com Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Dražen": Dražen Orešković’s coaching career has mostly been built as a high-level assistant coach in Croatian and European basketball, with a focus on player development, tactics, and national-team work rather than long-term head-coaching roles. He moved through youth and assistant positions before establishing himself in top-level professional basketball. He has worked as an Assistant Coach at the National Team level with Bosnia as well as Croatia. Also worked in the Euroleague with Khimki basketball and is currently a youth level coach in Aleppo, Syria. He also trained Jusuf Nurkic individually during his time in Portland and shared his experience in the NBA. Dražen has a rich coaching experience spanning across different cultures and continents and today we talked about all things coaching abroad. From being an assistant coach on the national team level during all competitions as well as his current experience in Syria and how he goes about adapting to a completely new cultures abroad. We also talked about living in…

People in this episode

Host: Benas Matkevicius

Guest: Dražen Orešković

Topics covered

• basketball coaching
• player development
• Croatian basketball
• youth competition
• cultural adaptation
• NBA experience

Keywords

• basketball
• coaching
• Dražen Orešković
• Jusuf Nurkic
• Croatia
• Syria
• youth basketball
• NBA
• ProBallers

Sponsors

ProBallers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Khimki

Places: Syria, Bosnia, Croatia, Portland

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