Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

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A retired coach on the difference
between the November version of you and the February version, and how to keep
them closer together.

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After thirty seven years, Coach
Steve Collins can finally see the thing he could not see while he was inside it:
he planned five months of conditioning for his players and nothing at all for
himself. This episode is an honest look at what actually empties a coach's
tank, which is almost never the games, plus a practical energy plan for a long
season and the one signal that tells you you are running on empty.

What we cover:

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The November coach and the February coach are different
people, and your team can feel it

•
What really drains you: the email, the scheduling, the
conflict, the paperwork on a Sunday

•
Building recovery into the week, including one day you
do not talk about basketball

•
Handing assistants real work instead of hoarding it out
of fear

•
Sleep, eating at the gym, keeping one non basketball
person, and no film at two in the morning

This week's challenge: Block one day on your calendar
where basketball is not allowed, and protect it like you protect a game night.

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: 4 minutes 45
seconds

Audio file: 10_coach_energy.mp3

LINKS

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You Built a
Conditioning Plan for Them, So Where Is Yours?

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What Are Coaches Actually Asking When Nobody Else Is Listening?

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A look inside a Teach Hoops member call, where real coaches bring the problems they are living with this week.

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This one is a recording of a Teach Hoops member call. No prepared topic, no script, just coaches bringing what is actually going on in their gyms and working through it together. If you have ever wondered whether the thing you are dealing with is normal, this is the episode that answers it.

What we cover:

Questions straight from coaches in the middle of their season

Problems that come up in almost every program, whatever the level

Where coaches disagree with each other, and why both answers can work

The value of hearing somebody else describe your exact situation

How the member calls work and who is in the room

This week's challenge: Write down the one question you would ask if you were on the call, then go find somebody to ask it.

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

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TITLE
What Are Coaches Actually Asking When Nobody Else Is Listening?

SUBTITLE
A look inside a Teach Hoops member call, where real coaches bring the problems they are living with this week.

SHOW NOTES

This one is a recording of a Teach Hoops member call. No prepared topic, no script, just coaches bringing what is actually going on in their gyms and working through it together. If you have ever wondered whether the thing you are dealing with is normal, this is the episode that answers it.

What we cover:

Questions straight from coaches in the middle of their season

Problems that come up in almost every program, whatever the level

Where coaches disagree with each other, and why both answers can work

The value of hearing somebody else describe your exact situation

How the member calls work and who is in the room

This week's challenge: Write down the one question you would ask if you were on the call, then go find somebody to ask it.

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

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Do you have three defenses or one really good one?

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Why most preseason defensive installs
try to cover everything and end up covering nothing.

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Somewhere in your league there
is a team with almost no defensive scheme at all that is going to beat somebody
good this winter, because they guard the ball. Meanwhile most of us are
carrying three or four defenses and are not actually good at any of them. Steve
walks through the order of operations for installing defense in preseason,
starting with the only question that matters before any scheme decision: can we
guard the ball?

What we cover:

•
Why ball pressure and stance have to get real practice
time before anything else

•
Help, recovery, and why the second closeout is where
most threes come from

•
Teaching one ball screen coverage instead of three your
kids will forget

•
Why a press is a reward a team earns and never a
starting point

•
Identical vocabulary October through February, guarding
without fouling, and the honest test of whether your defense is really
installed

This week's challenge: Drop your weakest defense and
give those minutes to guarding the ball.

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: 11 minutes 47
seconds

Audio file: 05_defense_install.mp3

LINKS

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https://coachingyouthhoops.com/

https://heysammi.com/

Do You Have
Three Defenses, or One Really Good One?

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Making Practice Better

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How Many Reps Did Your Players Actually Get Yesterday?

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Practice quality is a number you can count, and most coaches have never once counted it.

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Coaches judge practice on how it felt. Felt sharp, felt flat. Coach Collins makes the case for judging it on something harder and more honest: how many real repetitions each player got, how much of the gym was moving at any moment, and how much of your two hours went to things that were not basketball. Small structural changes here are worth more than any new drill.

What we cover:

Counting touches instead of trusting how practice felt

Where the minutes actually go, and the parts nobody notices losing

Running two things at once instead of everybody watching one

Adding a score to a drill and what it does to effort

Ending practice on something that tells you whether it worked

This week's challenge: Pick one player and count his actual repetitions for a twenty minute stretch of your next practice.

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

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