The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

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The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast will share, tips, drills and much more Published Mon-Friday at 7:00 am

  1. 17h ago

    How Do You Teach So It Actually Sticks?

    https://teachhoops.com/ This episode of the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast is supported by teachhoops.com, where the whole idea is teaching coaches how to teach. Most coaching content tells you what to run. This one is about how you deliver it. Two coaches can install the exact same offense and get completely different results, and the difference is almost always the teaching method. Coach walks through a progression that works at every level. Show it, say it simply, break it into the smallest useful piece, get reps without pressure, then add a defender, then add speed, then put it in a live setting. Skipping a step feels efficient in the moment and costs you three weeks later when players cannot execute it against real defense. The episode digs into how long to stay at each stage and what tells you a group is ready to move up. There is also a real conversation about language. Coaches who use ten words to describe one action get ten different interpretations. Coach talks about picking short consistent cue words, using the same ones every time, and getting your assistants and your youth feeder coaches saying the same thing. When the vocabulary is shared, teaching gets faster every year because you are not starting over. The final piece is feedback. Correction that comes too late, too vague, or too constantly stops working. Coach covers timing your corrections, giving one thing to fix at a time, and letting players self correct so learning transfers to games where you cannot talk to them. Great teaching is repeatable, and once you have a method, every new drill you add becomes easier to install. For the full library of teaching progressions and drills, visit teachhoops.com. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  2. 1d ago

    Why Do So Few Teams Screen Well, and How Do You Fix It?

    https://teachhoops.com/ This one is brought to you by teachhoops.com, where coaches find the teaching progressions that make hard skills coachable. Screening is one of the most valuable and least taught skills in basketball. Every team runs ball screens. Very few teams set good ones. Coach calls it an art because good screening is equal parts technique, timing, and willingness, and all three have to be taught. The technique section covers the fundamentals that get skipped. A wide base, a legal stance, the angle of the screen, and screening the defender rather than the spot on the floor where you assume the defender is. Coach explains why the angle is the single most common failure and why most screens that "did not work" were actually set two feet from where they needed to be. Then the episode gets into the user, which matters just as much. A great screen is wasted by a player who runs past it, refuses to set up the defender, or comes off before it is even set. Coach walks through the setup step, the shoulder to shoulder read, and how the ball handler and the screener have to see the same picture. This is where teams jump from running a play to actually running an offense. The last part is culture. Screening is unselfish work that does not show up in the box score, so it only happens consistently if you make it visible. Praise it out loud, track it, put it on film, and let your best players model it. When a program values screening, spacing improves, shot quality improves, and offense stops depending on one player beating somebody off the dribble. For screening drills and full offensive systems built around them, visit teachhoops.com. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  3. 4d ago

    Are You Talking Too Much to Be Heard?

    https://teachhoops.com/⁠ If the play breaks down and five heads turn to the bench, that is not a basketball problem. That is a coaching habit. This episode is about moving from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side, and building players who can think when the gym gets loud. What we cover: Handing players real decisions, and why ownership is a muscle that has to be loaded Trading instructions for questions, because a rented answer disappears under pressure Killing excuses by killing your own first, starting with the refs and the schedule Levels, standards, and borrowing what video games understand about motivation Why autonomy without warmth reads as checking out, and why they take hard from someone who cares This week's challenge: at one practice, tally every instruction you give against every question you ask. Then move ten of them over. 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

  4. 5d ago

    What Would Make Your Practice Better Tomorrow?

    https://teachhoops.com/ Brought to you by teachhoops.com, the platform that hands coaches a better practice instead of a longer to do list. This episode is about improving practice without changing your schedule, your roster, or your facility. Most coaches assume a better practice requires more of something. Coach makes the case that it usually requires better use of what you already have. The first upgrade is having a real plan with times, a stated focus, and a purpose behind every drill. If you cannot say what a drill teaches in one sentence, it is a candidate for the cut list. The second is raising the intensity floor by adding a defender, a clock, or a score to drills that currently have none. Players compete the way they practice, and nobody has ever built toughness in a line. The third area is feedback quality. Coach talks about coaching one thing at a time, correcting quickly, and being specific enough that a player knows exactly what to change. There is also the flip side, which is knowing when to stay quiet and let a player figure it out. Practices where the coach talks the entire time produce players who cannot function without a voice in their ear. The last stretch is about energy and ending well. How practice starts sets the tone, how you handle the middle sag decides whether you get anything out of it, and what you finish with is what players carry home. Coach suggests ending with something competitive and something clear, so the last thing they remember is the thing you most wanted them to learn. For practice plans you can adapt to your own team in minutes, visit teachhoops.com. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  5. 6d ago

    Are You Using Your Timeouts or Just Spending Them?

    https://teachhoops.com/ This episode is presented by teachhoops.com, where coaches sharpen the game management skills that decide close games. Timeouts are one of the few in game resources a coach fully controls, and they get burned constantly on frustration rather than strategy. Coach breaks down when a timeout is genuinely the right call, when it is a waste, and how to make the sixty seconds count once you have used one. The first part is about timing. Stopping a run before it becomes a collapse, protecting your team out of a broken possession, getting a set play in at the end of a quarter, or giving legs a break at the right moment. Coach also covers the other side, which is letting your team play through adversity so they learn to solve problems without you rescuing them every time. The middle of the episode is about what you actually say. Sixty seconds is not enough for a lecture. Coach recommends deciding your one message before you reach the huddle, delivering it in a sentence or two, showing it if you can, and then letting your team breathe. Tone matters as much as content. A panicked coach produces a panicked team, and players read your body language before they hear a word. The last section covers the end of game math. Knowing how many you have left, whether you can advance the ball, when to use one to set up defense, and how many you want in your pocket for the final minute. Coach also talks about practicing timeout huddles so the routine is automatic, including who stands where and who speaks. That is a real practice item, not an afterthought. For late game situation work and full practice plans, head to teachhoops.com. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  6. Sep 8

    Is Your Practice Too Complicated to Work?

    https://teachhoops.com/ Supported by teachhoops.com, a resource built on the idea that clarity beats complexity. This short episode is a reminder most coaches need at least once a season. Complexity feels like coaching. Multiple offenses, several defenses, dozens of drills, and a new wrinkle every week all look like hard work. What they usually produce is a team that does many things poorly and nothing well. Coach lays out the case for simplicity. Pick a small number of things your team must do well and repeat them until they hold up under pressure. One primary offense with counters beats four half learned sets. One defense your team can execute beats three they can only walk through. Players play faster when they are not thinking, and they stop thinking when the menu is short and familiar. The episode also addresses the coach's ego problem honestly. Adding new stuff is fun. Repeating the same thing for the fifth week in a row is not. But March belongs to teams whose habits are automatic, not teams with the biggest playbook. Coach talks about how to keep repetition fresh through competition and constraints so simple never turns into boring. The last section gives a practical test. Ask your players to explain your offense in one sentence, or ask what your defense is trying to take away. If the answers vary wildly, you are running too much. Cut something this week and watch the execution improve. Simple is not a lack of ambition, it is how you actually get good. For practice plans and systems built to be taught, learned, and repeated, go to teachhoops.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  7. Sep 7

    What Are You Measuring If It Is Not the Scoreboard?

    https://teachhoops.com/⁠ Summer is over, the banners are hung, and this episode asks an uncomfortable question: did you win because you taught something, or because you found something? One of those lasts. One of those disappears the moment everybody else grows. What we cover: The bamboo mindset and why root systems never show up on a December scoreboard Choosing success metrics before the season, and why whatever you measure is what your players chase Why development over winning is a rotation decision and a practice plan decision, not a slogan Giving shooting real time instead of the last eight minutes of practice Teaching your parents, because the car ride home carries more weight than the huddle Why assigning positions to twelve year olds builds players who run out of runway This week's challenge: write down three ways you will measure this season that have nothing to do with the final score, then show them to your players and your parents. Resources: Season plans, practice plans, 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

  8. Sep 4

    What Does Winning Actually Look Like for Your Team This Season?

    What Does Winning Actually Look Like for Your Team This Season? Why defining success before the first tip changes how your whole season feels If you don't define winning, the scoreboard will define it for you, and the scoreboard is a brutal boss. In this episode Coach Collins pushes coaches to decide what a successful season means before the first practice, so the team has something to compete for even in the years when the record isn't going to be pretty. What we cover The difference between outcome goals you can't control and standards you can Picking two or three team goals that are measurable and repeatable Improvement markers worth tracking: turnover rate, defensive stops, free throw attempts, rebounding margin, deflections How to talk about winning in terms of daily habits so players stay bought in during a losing stretch Getting parents on the same page early so everyone measures the season the same way Revisiting the definition at midseason instead of letting it drift Coaching point A team that knows what winning means for them plays harder in the games where the final score is already decided. Try this week Write your definition of a successful season on one index card. If it doesn't fit, it's too complicated for your players to remember. https://teachhoops.com/ SubtitleShow Notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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