Our Team

For the last 15+ years, Coach Kieran has been coaching, training, and developing basketball players from 4 years of age all the way up to the Division I and Professional level. He draws a lot of his drills and life lessons from his 10+ years of playing and coaching college basketball. Kieran has spent countless hours studying the game in books/videos and exposed to some of the best coaches in the game at various camps, clinics, and College and NBA practices/workouts around the country. He also had an exciting basketball playing career included winning Mt St Mary College’s 2nd Skyline Conference Championship in school history (2004-2005) and playing against 3-time NBA Champ & 2-time NBA MVP Steph Curry at Davidson College during his senior year of college in a non-conference match-up.

From a physical standpoint, Coach Kieran’s style of training focuses heavily on proper warmup, effective footwork, basketball-specific resistance training, dribble & passing efficiency, shot preparedness, and game-speed/multi-combo drills that tie everything together for a complete game-ready player! From a mental and emotional standpoint, coach Kieran educates his players about short-term and long-term goal setting as well as various methods of measuring their progress. This allows players an opportunity to learn how to hold themselves accountable and become more self-sufficient, which is critical to long-term character AND athletic development!

14-year ex-pro in the European Italian 2nd Division, Ryan Bucci began his long and successful playing career in his hometown of Newburgh, NY. Son of former New York Net George “The King” Bucci, who won an ABA Championship with Julius Irving in 1975-76 season, Ryan was a standout basketball player for the NFA Goldbacks. As the Times Herald Record Player of The Year in 1999, he earned a scholarship to play college basketball at CW-Post (Div II). This was only the start to his playing career, as he played 14 straight seasons professionally overseas in Italy. His career highlights include being named the Italian 2nd Division MVP (2008). During that same season, Bucci led his team to the League Championship and was named the Finals MVP.

The development and training that Ryan received and learned throughout his career allowed him to play 18 seasons of basketball without sustaining a significant injury! His focus on mobility, stability, flexibility and mindfullness added to his incredible work ethic was constantly an asset to any team he played on and equally an issue for any team he played against.

Ryan has joined our staff as of the fall of 2017 and is excited to continue to share his knowledge with the next generation of basketball players through our position-specific workouts, no-school training camps, private training and various leagues that we will be running in 2018. If you are interested in meeting Ryan, contact us and we can let you know which programs he is currently involved!