Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

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This Podcast will discuss basketball coaching with Coach Steve Collins. Coach Collins will do this with interviews and on topic discussions. (Discussion will revolve around basketball topics such as: Offense, Defense, Motivation, Team Building, Youth Basketball, High School Basketball, college basketball and much more...) We will publish weekly shows at 6:00 am..... Please check out our site if you like our podcast. www.teachhoops.com.

  1. 19h ago

    Are You Running Up the Score Without Meaning To?

    3. Blowing a Team Out (on the right end) https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ TITLE Are You Running Up the Score Without Meaning To? SUBTITLE A thirty point lead is a coaching problem, not a victory lap, and garbage time can be the most useful stretch of your week. SHOW NOTES Winning big is more complicated than it looks. Press too long and you are that coach. Call everything off and your bench players learn that their minutes do not count. Coach Collins talks through handling a lopsided lead with class while still getting something out of the last quarter, and the conversations you owe your starters, your reserves, and occasionally the other coach. What we cover: The point in the game where you change what you are coaching What to call off first, and what is fair to keep running Making the end of the bench feel like real basketball instead of a formality Why your reserves need a standard too, not just playing time Respecting the other bench without embarrassing your own kids This week's challenge: Write down the lead and the clock where you will change your approach, so you are not deciding it in the moment. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  2. 1d ago

    Who Is Going to Tell Him the Truth About His Role, You or the Scoreboard? 

    https://teachhoops.com/  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 https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Runtime: 4 minutes 52 seconds https://teachhoops.com/ https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ https://heysammi.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  3. 2d ago

    What Should Your Off-Season Actually Look Like?

    Off-Season Practice Planning https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ 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. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  4. 3d ago

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

    How Do You Coach a Blowout (on the wrong end) https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ 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. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  5. 4d ago

    What are you actually trying to find out at tryouts?

    https://teachhoops.com/ 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 •   Deciding your actual criteria on paper before you walk in the gym •   Full court one on one, watching kids off the ball, and giving them more than one Tuesday •   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 LINKS https://teachhoops.com/ https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ https://heysammi.com/ What Are You Actually Trying to Find Out at Tryouts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  6. 5d ago

    Should You Be Teaching Fundamentals or Running Your Offense?

    Fundamentals vs. Game Tactics https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ 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/ https://teachhoops.com/ · https://coachingyouthhoops.com/ · https://heysammi.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  7. Sep 25

    Are You Punishing the Exact Mistakes That Would Make Your Team Better?

    https://teachhoops.com/ Are You Punishing the Exact Mistakes That Would Make Your Team Better?Tryout week, the quick hook, and what happens to a player who learns that trying something is dangerous. Show Notes A quick hook feels like standards. This episode argues it is often just fear, and that the lesson a player actually takes from it is that trying something is dangerous. With tryouts here, it is worth asking what your sideline reaction is teaching. What we cover: Sorting mistakes of aggression from mistakes of selfishness, and why only one earns a seat Telling players out loud what you want them to risk this week The mistake budget, and using practice as a lab instead of a courtroom Why your face coaches louder than your voice Separating sloppy from brave, and why the player you will not trust in November is the one you need in February This week's challenge: run one practice where you never stop play for a mistake of aggression. Let it go, then write down what you saw. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, on court clinics, and the coaching community at https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  8. Sep 24

    Are Your Drills Quietly Stealing Your Players' Development?

    https://teachhoops.com/ Are Your Players Hearing You, or Actually Seeing It?Why installation week moves twice as fast when you stop explaining and start showing. Show Notes Installation week always sounds the same. A coach talking, a group of heads nodding, and then total chaos the second the ball goes up. This episode makes the case that the problem is not attention. It is that most young players learn with their eyes and we keep teaching with our mouths. What we cover: Show it before you say it, so the words have a picture to stick to Putting a screen in your gym, and why twenty seconds of clip beats two minutes of talking One cue, then go, because when you stack four instructions they keep the last one Letting players watch their own possession and coach themselves off it Locking your vocabulary in October so you are not reteaching words in February This week's challenge: install one thing using under thirty seconds of talking. Show it, run it, fix one detail, run it again. Resources: Practice plans, teaching progressions, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This Podcast will discuss basketball coaching with Coach Steve Collins. Coach Collins will do this with interviews and on topic discussions. (Discussion will revolve around basketball topics such as: Offense, Defense, Motivation, Team Building, Youth Basketball, High School Basketball, college basketball and much more...) We will publish weekly shows at 6:00 am..... Please check out our site if you like our podcast. www.teachhoops.com.

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