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About Us
To put it simply, Breakthrough Basketball, LLC. provides you with helpful tips and information so you can become a better basketball coach or player...
On this site, you'll find information about virtually all aspects of basketball, but the emphasis is about the "fundamentals" and "doing the right thing"!
You're bound to find new and extremely valuable information because we have a very experienced group of coaches behind the scenes, ranging all the way from youth coaches to the NBA!!
We're very passionate about basketball and coaching. We firmly believe that coaches have very important responsibilities and amazing opportunities to have a positive impact on their player's lives.
Too many coaches get caught up in winning and lose sight of the important things. Don't get us wrong, we're very competitive. But we never let winning take precedence over the important things.
We're here to help you improve your basketball IQ and remind you of what's important.
Business Objectives and Core Values for Employees
Our objective is to provide extremely helpful free information and advice for basketball coaches and players via email, newsletters, e-books, audio, video, and downloadable information. Never lie, deceive, or mislead in any way what so ever, even if the truth can result in lost sales.
When approached with questions, always be helpful and give the best advice possible, without being concerned about our own products, even if that means recommending another competing product that might be more helpful for the coach.
For those interested, we provide a select few extremely high quality basketball coaching information products.
Meet the people behind the scenes at Breakthrough Basketball, LLC...
Here are some of the writers, contributors, and people behind the scenes at Breakthrough Basketball:
Jeff Haefner, Co-Founder
Jeff is one of the co-founders of Breakthrough Basketball. He is a basketball junkie who loves the game of basketball, whether he is playing, coaching, watching, or writing about it. He’s been playing for over 20 years and coaching for 10 years.
But what Jeff enjoys the most is teaching young players the fundamentals of basketball, how to gain confidence, and how to be successful in life. That is his passion!
To him, practice is more fun than the games because that’s where he gets the opportunity to teach and have a positive impact on young player’s lives.
Jeff also brings a very unique aspect to his teachings...
Not only can he talk x's and o's, but he can also teach you little-known and super-effective techniques that he learned from the business world. Jeff studied very hard and learned from some of the most successful businesses in the world. Not only did this help him in his own businesses, but he also discovered that these techniques can also be applied to basketball. He also found that very few coaches and players utilized these "business fundamentals and techniques".
In addition to basketball, Jeff enjoys boating, water skiing, wakeboarding, traveling to sunny places, working out, and playing with his kids as much he can!
If you'd like to send Jeff an email, click here.
Joe Haefner, Co-Founder
Joe is the other co-founder of Breakthrough Basketball and Jeff's brother. Joe has tremendous basketball experience, especially for his age.
Joe started playing basketball at the young age of five.
Not only can he teach the experienced coach a thing or two, but he brings first hand experience and knowledge for youth coaches out there. You see, Joe lived the experience that most young players and coaches go through today. He started playing basketball when he was 5 years old and he played almost year round all the way through high school.
Not only did he learn a ton about basketball by playing year round with dozens of different coaches for over 12 years, but he also knows first hand what works and what doesn't work with young players. (He should, because he lived it.) He knows what will burn players out and how to deal with this tricky and dangerous trend of aggressively starting kids on basketball at such a young age.
If you'd like to send Joe an email, click here.
Don Kelbick - Contributing Editor and Consultant
Don Kelbick has had 27 years of coaching experience, 25 at the college level including 14 years as a head coach and 10 years as a Division I assistant including stops at Hofstra University, Marist College, Keene State College, and Florida International University. In 2 years as a high school coach, his teams produced 6 Division I players and was ranked #1 in Florida 28 out of a possible 34 weeks. In addition to coaching he has scouted for NBA teams and served as a general manager in the USBL.
Don currently focuses on individual player development and has worked with a variety of great players including Raja Bell, Carlos Arroyo, Rasual Butler, and many other college and NBA players.
If you'd like to chat with Don or learn more about his player development programs, you can email him or go to:
www.donkelbickbasketball.com
Paul Giacomelli - Contributing Editor
Paul Giacomelli grew up in a family somewhat crazy about basketball. His dad was a small-school all-state point guard in Oregon, and he got Paul started playing basketball at the age of five in a developmental program orchestrated by a group of dads in a small town in Northern California. The emphasis was on skill development and good sportsmanship.
From that excellent foundation, Paul continued to participate as a point guard in competitive basketball through grade school and high school, receiving expert training from his various coaches and from those he met during several summers at the Squaw Valley Basketball Camps affiliated with the then San Francisco Warriors basketball organization.
Later in life, Paul became a teacher and coached high school basketball for eight years, four years as a boys' junior varsity coach and four years as a boys' varsity coach. He was able to attend several impressive coaching clinics during that period and heard presentations from many of the premier college coaches in the game. After that, he continued coaching for another eight years as an eighth-grade coach for boys' and girls' teams.
In addition to these involvements, Paul has coached in Y-Ball programs and in AAU programs.
Currently taking a break from coaching, Paul continues to enjoy playing, watching, and writing about basketball. He is particularly interested in the opportunities basketball presents to develop high levels of teamwork.
If you'd like to send Paul an email, click here.
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