I'm well aware of the argument against basketball players lifting heavy, as I went through it ~ 40 years ago. And I certainly am not questioning your personal experience on the topic running an S&C program. I'm questioning the conventional wisdom on this topic generally for the past umpteen years.
Strength is the capacity to exert force against an external resistance. There's certainly an inflection point for weight gain via strength training in basketball that's different from football and other sports, but I rarely see basketball players who couldn't be productively stronger, often by a country mile.
Explosiveness (vertical leap, e.g.) is genetic. It can't be trained. But power can, and, particularly for someone such as CoHawk, would serve him well. I still lift in my mid-50s and am certainly conscious of bar speed and aware of its relation to strength development. A set of squats, for example, trained at the same weight, is more beneficial done explosively out of the hole than slowly.
I also recall some sportswriter gushing over Steph Curry at some point ~ 7-8 yrs ago because he could deadlift 405. That's absurd. He should be deadlifting at least 500 if not well north of that. Leaving that kind of strength on the table is, objectively, daft, even for a guard. Particularly for the guys in D-1 and the pros who are by definition generically gifted. The problem with S&C programs is that really you can do anything with an 18-year-old D-1 athlete and he's going to be bigger and stronger by the time he's 22 no matter what. Again, the issue is how much bigger, stronger, and athletic he might have been by deadlifting, squatting and pressing more and balancing on BOSU balls less.