By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
The Eurohoops Dome and Michalis Kalavros are revolutionizing basketball training. The accomplished personal improvement coach and his team will join forces with the family of the state-of-the-art indoor basketball gym in Kifissia (Evrota 24) and offer professional basketball players top-level services that guarantee not just their professional growth, but to also keep them at the top level.
Coach Michalis Kalavros, known for working with some of the best players in the EuroLeague, together with Eurohoops, has prepared five innovative packages of high-quality services for elite professional and emerging athletes that are going to be a sensation.
This is guaranteed by the fact that the coach has personally worked with five athletes who went on to win the precious EuroLeague trophy, he has helped four different athletes become the Greek Basket League Most Improved Player, and has worked with another four who won the Best Young Player award in the Greek league.
Kalavros is considered an expert in personal improvement training and this is no coincidence. His successes and, of course, the annual earnings of his players attest to that. Among others, five of his players received a 20% increase in their contracts for three years in a row, and another three earned a 100% increase in their salaries for three consecutive seasons!
SUMMER SESSIONS
The athletes have the opportunity to carry out up to 40 training sessions from June until mid-August under the supervision of Michalis Kalavros in the comforts offered by the state-of-the-art facilities of the Eurohoops Dome. There will never be more than four (4) athletes in each group. Furthermore, the coach will ensure that those players will have clicked regarding their strengths and weaknesses so that the drills – which are made under game conditions to the extent of 80% – will have the maximum results in terms of improving their individual skills.
An indicative training program
25% Warm up (gradual increased pace).
• Skill work
• Combined exercises – sprinting, backpedaling, side shuffling
• Ball handling with layups/shooting
• Finishes with contact – pivoting, jumping and lunging
75% Game like shoots
-Pick n roll & off screen shooting
• Bigs:
-Pick n Roll reads and scoring.
-Post up work with resistance.
– Running the floor.
– Offensive rebounding
• Game scenarios:
– 1×1 pick n roll for guards.
– Transition open court vs close out defense.
– 1 on1 off screen with assistants.
• Guards:
– Pick n roll shoots and reads, transition shooting and finishes.
– Offscreen shooting and reads.
These individual training sessions concern the summer month each athlete chooses. If, for example, someone deems that they need 20 sessions in order to improve their skills, those 20 individual sessions will take place in one of the three periods of the program and will not be distributed from June until August.
| Categories | 20 practice units | 30 practice units | 40 practice units |
| Elite players (Euroleague/Eurocup/FIBA CL) | 1 month | 2 month | 3 month |
| Pro players (Top National Leagues) | 1 month | 2 month | 3 month |
| Juniors/Prospects & lower divisions players | 1 month | 2 month | 3 month |
ANNUAL SESSIONS
For the athletes who would like an annual collaboration with coach Kalavros, there has been a program set up that enables them not only to work with him up to 40 times during the summer but to also have up to 15 training sessions per month after the start of the season. In more detail:
• Up to 40 practice units from June – mid-August.
• Up to15 practice units per month during the season.
• Consulting and mental preparation.
• Identification of areas for improvement.
• Skills development.
• Gamelike drills.
• Groups matching to individual characteristics.
With the experience he has from working at the side of coaches such as the European champion with the national team of Greece, Kostas Politis (AEK, Near East), the EuroLeague trophy winner with Olympiacos, Georgios Bartzokas (Olympia Larissa), and Charles Barton (Frankfurt Skyliners), having worked on the coaching staffs of teams like the Shanghai Sharks in China, Ilysiakos, Kolossos Rodou and Sporting, and having guided the national teams of Norway and New Zealand as head coach, he is in a position to speak personally with the athlete in order to advise and encourage him, depending on the circumstances, and help him advance.
STRENGTH & CONDITIONING BY KOSTAS CHATZICHRISTOS
Eurohoops approaches the improvement of players in a holistic way and makes sure to provide options for each individual case. So, for anyone requiring extra work in terms of strength and physical condition, there is a special partnership with Kostas Chatzichristos’s Performance 22 studio, Chatzichristos who has been CSKA Moscow’s trainer for a number of years and who has set up three highly specialized programs. The first is for elite athletes and almost personal with the accomplished trainer. The second is for adult players of smaller teams, and the third is for younger athletes. All programs last 1-3 months. In all three cases, the prices are special for the athletes of the Eurohoops Dome.
HOSTING OF PLAYERS
For the foreign players who want to travel to Greece and the athletes from the Greek provinces who wish to come to Athens for personal improvement training, they can be hosted (accommodation, meals, transportation) through a partnering travel agency.
For more information, contact:
Coach Kalavros, Michalis: +30 693 6547874
Email: dome@eurohoops.net