EP#80 Dan Shamir (Hapoel Jerusalem) - Showing willingness to change roles and grow!

The Benas Podcast

Benas Matkevicius

November 2, 20251 hr 11 min

Basketball

EP#80 Dan Shamir (Hapoel Jerusalem) - Showing willingness to change roles and grow!

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NEW EPISODE!

(EP#80)

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"Dan":

Dan Shamir always grew up wanting to be a coach until he became one working his way up from being an Assistant Coach with the arguably the best Euroleague team of all time at Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2003-2006. He successfully became a Head Coach multiple times most recently for the New Zealand Breakers 2019-2022 but was also able to switch back and forth to be an Assistant Coach again for Ettore Messina at CSKA Moscow 2013-14 & Milano 2022-23. He is currently the General Manager at Hapoel Jerusalem, switching roles yet again.

Today, I drilled Dan with different questions from the different avenues of his career, especially his mindset of becoming a Head Coach and switching to being an Assistant several times. We also talked about how to build a culture as a GM and what communication as well as standard of integrity has to be set internally.

Topics:
00:00 - Intro

1:13 Memories of working together

3:00 Willingness to change roles

6:00 Assistant as Maccabi Tel Aviv

9:30 Learning from Players / Pressure

18:00 Realization as a Head Coach

21:41 Staff as a team / Cultivating Trust

29:40 ProBallers.com

37:09 GM vs Coach

46:00 Cultivating a culture

54:10 Communication & Club Values

1:00:35 Dealing with Agents / Market