If you want to support my podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Sani Boy": Sani is a well-known former player as well as highly respected personality because of his positive attitude and mindset. Sani was drafted by the Denver Nuggets and played an incredible 20years as a professional, winning his first Euroleague title in 2007 with Panathinaikos. After numerious domestic titles and junior MVPs and All Star appointments he decided to go into the front offi...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 12 min
If you want to support my podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Guillaume": Guillaume is making a name for himself in France and this is just the beginning. After being the Head Coach at Vichy for numerous years he won the Leader's Cup of the ProB in 2024 and was appointed the head coach of LeMans the following season where he also managed to the Leader's Cup of the ProA in his first season. Meanwhile, Guillaume also won 2 gold medals in a row with the Fre...
May 10, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Bilietai į B8 Summit 2025 Vilnius renginį: www.b8summit.com Mano podcasto palaikymas (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Rėmėjas: www.proballers.com Svetainė: www.bmatke.com "Linse": Šio epizodo svečias yra Linas Kleiza - jo ilgai pristatinėti nereikia. Be šešių sezonų, praleistų NBA, Linas gali pasigirti medaliais, iškovotais su Lietuvos vyrų rinktine 2007ais, 2010ais ir 2013ais metais! Linui teko žaisti ir trijuose Eurolygos klubuose - Olympiacos, Fenerbahce ir Milane. Šiandien mes su Lin...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 9 min
If you want to support my podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Petteri": Petteri is a well-known basketball player who was drafted in 2007 by Philadelphia but his rights ended up being traded several times during his career and he never made the final jump. On the contrary, Petteri had an illustrious career in Europe where he played for several high level teams throughout his career (Bologna, Khimki, FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich and more) and ended up winn...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 21 min
If you want to support my podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Mikko": Mikko is the Head Coach of the Swedish Basketball NT and recently qualified with Sweden for the Eurobasket in 2025. He's also the Head Coach of BG Göttingen in the German BBL and is managing both positions at once. Before he joined Göttingen midway through this season, he was the Head Coach of the Swedish top club in Norrköping and won every domestic title there is to win in Sweden. Be...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 18 min
If you want to support my podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke You can Find "Jamion" here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamion_christian/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamion.christian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamion-christian-683b54208/ X: https://x.com/JamionChristian Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Jamion": Jamion Christian is an experienced coach with 280+ games as a Head Coach at the NCAA level as well as the pros. Jamion has been a Head Coach at Mount St ...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 27 min
If you want to support my podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke You can Find "Dr. Mah" here: Website: https://www.drcherimah.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcherimah/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drcherimah LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcherimah/ X: https://x.com/drcherimah Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Dr. Cheri Mah": Dr. Mah is a highly respected sleep physician and n Adjungt Lecturer at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. Amongst high level athletes and sp...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 16 min
If you want to support my podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsor: www.proballers.com "Gigi": Gigi Datome is a household name in Italian basketball and his journey is a phenomenal one. Coming from a small island (Sardinia) in Italy to playing in the NBA, winning the Euroleague (2017) and being the captain of the national team of Italy. After winning countless domestic leagues and cups in Italy & Turkey he finally decided to hang up his shoes and move into a new role with the...
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Jeigu norite paremti mano podkastą (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Rėmėjas: www.proballers.com "Giedrius": Trenerio Žibėno kelias iki dvieju LKL čempiono titulu nera iprastas - del to šios dienos epizodas vertas demesio. Mes kalbejom apie jo kelia ir kaip jo asmenybe keitesi keliaujant po skirtingas šalis. Mes aptarem koks jis buvo gyvenant ir dirbant Lietuvoje ir koks jis tapo po išskirtiniu patirčiu užsienije. Kodel Italija butent turejo didziausia itaka ir kaip merginu komandu trenir...
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr 10 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com "Baynesie": Aron Baynes is a household name not only in Australia but also in the NBA as well as in Europe. Has been around the globe playing in Europe, NBA, GLeague, NBL & Australia National Team. He's a 3 time Olympian and a NBA World Champion with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014. Aron went through his fair share of challenges in his life and today we talked about all of them. We talked ...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 11 min
#68 Kyle Hines - Process of Retirement If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com "Kyle": My first repeat guest, Kyle Hines, came back to my podcast after being my #2 episode to talk about his process of retirement, being in peace with it and entering the next stage of his life. This conversation was very sincere and transparent, talking about the difficulties of sending out the final decision to the world, when he actually decided t...
Oct 13, 2024•53 min
Jeigu norite paremti mano podkastą (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Rėmėjas: www.proballers.com "Gytis": Gytis yra labai žinomas krepšinio teisėjas ne tik Lietuvoje, bet ir Eurolygoje. Jis buvo išrinktas geriausiu Lietuvos teisėju 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 metais! 2021, 2022, 2023 metais buvo išrinktas teisėjauti Eurolygos 'Final Four' ir visus 3 kartus teisėjavo Eurolygos finalą. Šiandien su Gyčiu aptarėm labai daug temų, susijusių su šia profesija, daug dėmėsio skyrėm pasiruoš...
Sep 28, 2024•1 hr 19 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com "Tim": Tim has been a long-time friend of mine, we go way back to 2014 and ended up celebrating our 10year anniversary of our friendship in Colombia together, where this podcast was recorded. Tim has had experiences as a coach early on in his life as a 22 year old in Spain in the lower divisions, learned his ways without speaking much Spanish at the time. Tim has since coached at an elite le...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 16 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com "Damjan": Damjan Rudež is a highly accomplished basketball player who played at all possible levels of basketball and has now ventured into the business side of things with the "Sunset Sports Festival". Damjan started his professional career in Belgium before returning to Croatia to play for Split and later various other teams in the Balkans before moving on to Zaragoza, Spain. Damjan was pi...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 21 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com "Sye": My good friend Simon Cote is not only a long time friend but also used to be a long time colleague in the world of coaching. After serving as an Assistant at SMU & University of Tennessee in the late 90s he decided to start his coaching career in Europe and worked with current World Champion Gordon Herbert in Frankfurt. He was part of the championship team there before becoming a ...
Jul 27, 2024•1 hr 21 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com "So": Sophia started her basketball journey together with me in Shreveport, Louisiana as an exchange student before she became a superstar at Baylor University. She took the Lady Bears to a National Championship and became the MVP of the Final Four before getting drafted by the San Antonio SilverStars and continuing her journey in the WNBA and later in various countries around Europe as well...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 2 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com "Micah": Micah has a wealth of experience on the NCAA level as well as the NBA level with the Boston Celtics where he spent 6 years as an Assistant Coach to Brad Stevens. Prior to that Micah already served as an Assistant at Butler and Purdue before joining the Celtics in 2013. After his NBA stint, Micah decided to go back to Purdue as an Assistant once again before taking the Penn State Hea...
May 19, 2024•1 hr 4 min
#61 Paulius Jankunas (LT) - Ką daro komandos kapitonas? Jeigu norite paremti šį podcastą, tai galite padaryti per nuorodą žemiau. Būsiu labai dėkingas! https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Rėmėjas #1: www.Proballers.com Rėmėjas #2: www.forestdomes.lt 10% Nuolaidos kodas: BENAS10 "Jankis": Šiandienos svečio ilgai pristatinėti nereikia - Pauliaus Jankūno vardas daug kartų nuskambėjo ir vis dar skamba Žalgirio Arenoje. Beveik visą savo profesionalią karjerą praleidęs Žalgiryje ir su juo laimejęs 15 LKL t...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Martin Kuchalik - Business Communication vs Sports Communication (EP59) If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com "Martin": Not many people in the sports business know who Martin Kuchalik is but the people who work with him truly appreciate his knowledge and view on things. Martin is a communication expert and is hired by companies to observe and improve internal communication especially when taking the vertical communication from m...
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com "AntGoods": Anthony is a former professional basketball player who played in a lot of different places around the world. He played four years at Stanford before transitioning to the DLeague at the time, making his way to Italy later on before coming back to the DLeague again. Later, he finally decided to take his talents to Europe as well as South America and played in countries such as Ukra...
Mar 31, 2024•1 hr 39 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke "Eskedar": Eskedar is a good friend of mine and has been living in Vilnius first as a refugee before finally becoming a Lithuanian citizen. Today she shared her crazy and unique story of how she escaped an oppressive government in Ethiopia 19 years ago, got tangled up in an even more restrictive government in Khartoum (Sudan) until civil war broke out before ending up in jail in Lybia and then taking a boat to Malta to ...
Mar 12, 2024•55 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com "Cuzzo": Francesco Cuzzolin is currently the Head of Performance at EA7 Armani Milano and has a wealth of experience in the field of Strength & Conditioning. He became the first Strength & Conditioning coach in the NBA when he started to work for the Toronto Raptors. Besides clubs he also worked with Italy's & Russia's Basketball National Team and is also serving as a consultant ...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 32 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com "Sergio": Sergio Scariolo doesn't need a long introduction, his successes speak for itself especially with Spain's National Team and the countless titles internationally that they have won. 5 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals across Eurobasket, World Cup and Olympic tournaments. He's the winningest National Team coach in the modern era of basketball. Sergio can also consider himself a NBA c...
Jan 21, 2024•58 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com "Boris": Boris Diaw is a well known name in the basketball community, not much introduction needed at this point, even after his retirement. He's a winner and a patriot in the most truest sense. Every summer he played for the National Team of France and in 2013 he won the FIBA Eurobasket and followed up in 2014 with a NBA championship playing for the Spurs in a memorable playoff run. Today, ...
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 17 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.ProBallers.com Website: www.bmatke.com "Tadas": Tadas Bulotas took on the profession of a basketball agent after his father but started his own company together with Arturas Javtokas in 2008 while he was still only 19years old. He eventually sold his business and joined Wassermann agency as one of their representatives in Europe. Besides many international draft prospects Tadas also represents clients in E...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 17 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com Topics: 0:00 Intro 2:52 How are you? 5:00 Basketball Beginnings 8:40 Art of Basketball & Standards 12:45 National Team Beginnings 17:00 Mentorship & Big Responsibilities 27:40 Focus & Preparation Process 32:30 New Assistant Coach Responsibilities 37:00 Communication with players 44:00 Expectations from Assistant Coaches 46:00 Under-rated "Actions" on offense 51:30 ProBallers.com ...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 14 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com Topics: (0:00) Intro (3:30) Memories as a Player (6:15) Knee Rehabilitation & Support System (17:45) Being Hard to Coach (21:35) Overthinking & Analyzing (26:40) Pablo Laso & Real Madrid Culture (37:20) ProBallers.com Search Tool (42:40) Transition to New Career (47:00) Helping Players Adapt (52:52) Scouting Perspective & Details (57:20) Real's Competitive Practices (1:00:20)...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 14 min
If you want to support this podcast (Ačiū!!): https://www.patreon.com/bmatke Sponsors: www.proballers.com Topics: Coach's Son Exprience Communication (Management & Head Coach) Conflicts & Conversations Building A Culture & Identity Qualities of a Head Coach / Process Youth Integration ProBallers.com Information Diet Daily Habits Family Life Balance ATOs NEW SPONSOR: I want to welcome our new and first sponsor of the show, www.proballers.com Every basketball geek knows them, it's a st...
Oct 22, 2023•1 hr 20 min
"Danny": Danny is a long time friend of mine and currently the GM of the Perth Wildcats, representing the NBL proudly. Danny has a very colorful background across the world, from playing in Australia to Oregon Tech in the US as well as the Irish National Team to being the video coordinator for the Bakersfield Jam and working in Europe as the International Scout of the Philadelphia 76ers after briefly coaching in Italy. Danny later moved to the US to become the Director of Scouting for Philadelph...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 15 min
"Paulius": Paulius first joined Žalgiris Kaunas in 2007 as their director of communications but quickly climbed the latter and became the GM in 2013. Paulius lead the organization through two crises, celebrated multiple championships within the Lithuanian League and elevated the status of Žalgiris Kaunas back to where it belongs in Europe, being a playoff contender each season. The organization went from nearly being bankrupt in 2013 to being a Final Four participant in 2018??? and hosting the F...
Jul 10, 2023•59 min
