Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

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What Should You Actually Be Watching in Your First Scrimmage?

The score is the least useful number in the gym, so here are the three you should write on your card instead. SHOW NOTESYour first scrimmage is the best information you will get all preseason, and most coaches throw it away by watching the ball and worrying about the score. Coach Steve Collins walks through how to decide what you are hunting for before tip, why you should let your team drown through a bad stretch instead of bailing them out, and how one quarter of complete silence can teach you more than a month of practice. What we cover: - Why a preseason score is built out of things that will not exist in January- Picking three things before the ball goes up and writing them on your card- Watching habits instead of results, starting with who sprints back without being told- The bench and the huddle are half your information and they are sitting right next to you- Fix, do not add: turning scrimmage notes into one twelve minute Monday segment This week's challenge: Write your three things on your card before tip, then coach one full quarter with your mouth closed. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Runtime: 5 minutes 32 secondsAudio file: 09_first_scrimmage.mp3 LINKS

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What if you built your first two weeks backwards from opening night?

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Most coaches plan practice forwards and
run out of calendar, so here is how to start at game one and work your way
back.

SHOW NOTES

Ask most coaches how many
practices they have before their first game and you get a guess. That guess is
exactly why the Thursday before the opener turns into a panic session where you
cram four installs into ninety minutes. In this two part episode, Coach Steve
Collins builds the first two weeks in reverse, starting with the date of game
one and working back to what has to be true by then.

What we cover:

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Counting your real practices instead of your calendar
days

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The difference between your install list and your
functional list

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Using "what will beat us in game one" to
organize everything

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Why habits and sequencing come before any play you love

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The day ten test that tells you if you are ahead or
behind

This week's challenge: Write the date of your first
game on a page, count the practices you actually have, and cross one thing off
your install list.

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 6
seconds

Audio file: 03_first_two_weeks.mp3

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What If You
Built Your First Two Weeks Backwards From Opening Night?

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Being an Assistant Coach

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What Does a Great Assistant Coach Actually Do?

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Nobody hands you a job description, most head coaches never write one, and the assistants who figure it out become impossible to replace.

SHOW NOTES

Being an assistant is its own craft, not a waiting room for a head job. Coach Collins talks through what the role really asks of you: how to disagree with your head coach the right way and at the right time, how to be the voice a struggling player can actually go to, and how to add value in the areas nobody else has claimed. Useful whether this is your career or your first season holding a clipboard.

What we cover:

Finding the job nobody assigned you and owning it completely

Disagreeing with your head coach in private and backing him in public

Being the assistant players come to, without becoming a shortcut around the head coach

Earning responsibility instead of waiting to be handed it

Preparing for a head job while doing this one well

This week's challenge: Ask your head coach what he wishes somebody on staff would take off his plate, then take it.

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

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Do you have standards, or do you just have a lot of rules?

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Why three things you will stop practice
for beat twenty things nobody enforces after Thanksgiving.

SHOW NOTES

Most programs walk into the
first week of practice with a handbook full of rules and not one real standard.
Coach Steve Collins breaks down the difference between a line you cannot cross
and a level you hold, and why the long list actually teaches your team that you
do not mean what you say. This one is meant to be used before your first
whistle, not after your first problem.

What we cover:

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Rules stop behavior, standards set a level, and most
gyms are drowning in the first

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Why twenty rules is a bluff and three standards is a
program

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A standard only exists if you stop practice for it,
including when you are winning

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How to tell a standard from a slogan on the wall

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Letting your players help write them, and what happens
the first time you let one slide

This week's challenge: Write down three things you will
stop the gym for every single time, and find out this Tuesday whether you meant
them.

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: 5 minutes 25
seconds

Audio file: 07_standards_vs_rules.mp3

LINKS

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Do You Have
Standards, or Do You Just Have a Lot of Rules?

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Teach Hoops Member Call

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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.

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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