Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

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TITLEWho Is Going to Tell Him the Truth About His Role, You or the Scoreboard? SUBTITLEThe four minute conversation every kid on your roster has earned, and the cowardly answer most of us give instead. SHOW NOTESEvery player on your team already has a role, whether you named it or not. Coach Steve Collins tells the story of a senior who invented his own role and spent two months fighting the wrong battle because nobody would sit him down. This episode is about the coach to player conversation itself: how short it should be, how specific it has to be, and why "just keep working hard" is the worst thing you can send a kid home with. What we cover: - If you do not name a kid's role he will invent one, and it will be too big- Why the talk has to happen before game four does it for you- The one thing that would move him, instead of a list of five- Giving him a role he can be great at rather than a smaller version of somebody else's- A role is not a ceiling, and why you have this conversation again in January This week's challenge: Get every kid on your roster alone for four minutes and tell him the truth before the scoreboard does. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at

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Off-Season Practice Planning

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TITLE
What Should Your Off-Season Actually Look Like?

SUBTITLE
Nobody is watching and nobody is keeping score, which is exactly why this is where programs separate.

SHOW NOTES

The season ends and most coaches take a breath, then look up and it is October again. This episode is about building an off-season with an actual plan behind it: what to evaluate while the season is still fresh, what to hand each player to work on, how much structure is too much, and how to arrive at the first practice ahead instead of starting over.

What we cover:

The program review you should do within two weeks of your last game

Individual development plans, and why one thing per player beats a list

How much organized time is right, and when you are doing too much

Using the off-season to develop your staff, not just your roster

Arriving at preseason with the work already done

This week's challenge: Pick one player and write the single skill that would change his role next season, then tell him.

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How Do You Coach a Blowout (on the wrong end)

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TITLE
What Do You Say When Your Team Is Getting Run Off the Floor?

SUBTITLE
The game is decided, there are twelve minutes left, and how you handle them says more about your program than the final score.

SHOW NOTES

Every coach gets one. Down twenty five, the other team is still pressing, and your bench has stopped looking at you. This episode is about what to actually do with the rest of that night: what to say in the huddle, what to say after, and how to keep a beating from turning into something your team carries into next week.

What we cover:

Deciding early that the scoreboard is no longer the point

What to give them to compete for when the game is gone

Handling the huddle without lying to them or crushing them

The locker room afterward, and the one thing not to do

Turning the film from a loss like this into something useful

This week's challenge: Decide now what you will say in that huddle, before you are standing in it.

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What are you actually trying to find out at tryouts?

Most tryouts sort kids instead of
learning anything about them, and that is a choice you make before the first
whistle.

SHOW NOTES

Steve opens with a cut he still
regrets: a kid who had one bad Tuesday and went on to start varsity somewhere
else two years later. The problem was not the kid. The problem was a tryout
built to confirm what Steve already believed instead of teaching him something
new. This episode is about treating tryout week as an information event,
designing drills where the trait you care about cannot hide, and handling
everything that happens after you post the list.

What we cover:

•
Why sorting feels productive and teaches you nothing

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Deciding your actual criteria on paper before you walk
in the gym

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Full court one on one, watching kids off the ball, and
giving them more than one Tuesday

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Ranking by role and fit instead of averaging every kid
into a six

•
Who belongs in the gym evaluating with you, and who
never does

This week's challenge: Before you run a single minute
of tryouts, write down exactly what you are going to say to the last kid you
cut.

Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on
court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/

Recorded at the Fifth Quarter
Studios in Madison, Wisconsin.

EPISODE DETAILS

Runtime: 10 minutes 1
seconds

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Fundamentals vs. Game Tactics

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TITLE
Should You Be Teaching Fundamentals or Running Your Offense?

SUBTITLE
Every practice plan is a trade between the two, and most coaches get the ratio wrong without ever noticing.

SHOW NOTES

There are only so many minutes in a practice, and every one you spend on footwork is a minute you did not spend on your offense. Coach Collins works through how to think about that trade honestly, why the answer changes with the age group and the time of year, and how to tell from watching a game which side of the ledger your team is short on.

What we cover:

Why the fundamentals versus tactics question is really a question about minutes

How the right ratio shifts from youth to high school, and from October to February

The tell in a game that says your problem is skill, not scheme

Teaching fundamentals inside your offense instead of as a separate block

What happens to a team that only ever runs plays

This week's challenge: Add up the minutes in your last practice plan and find out what your actual split was, not what you thought it was.

Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/

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