Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

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October 14Ep 2042 Interview with Coach Raidbard ( Part 2)
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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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29 min
October 13Ep 2041. Interview with Coach Raidbard ( Part 1)
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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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27 min
October 12 Ep 2040 Do you have three defenses or one really good one?
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.
SHOW NOTES
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:
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Why ball pressure and stance have to get real practice
time before anything else
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Help, recovery, and why the second closeout is where
most threes come from
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Teaching one ball screen coverage instead of three your
kids will forget
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Why a press is a reward a team earns and never a
starting point
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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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Do You Have
Three Defenses, or One Really Good One?

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14 min
October 11Ep 2039 How Many Reps Did Your Players Actually Get Yesterday?
Making Practice Better
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TITLE
How Many Reps Did Your Players Actually Get Yesterday?
SUBTITLE
Practice quality is a number you can count, and most coaches have never once counted it.
SHOW NOTES
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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10 min
October 10 Ep 2038 Are you picking captains or just holding an election?
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Why the team vote usually crowns the
most popular kid, and what to ask of a captain once you have actually named the
job.
SHOW NOTES
The best captain Coach Steve
Collins ever had averaged three points a game and never started. In this three
part episode, Steve gets into how he stopped letting the team vote, why your
leading scorer is often the wrong choice, and the three specific things he asks
a captain to do. He also handles the part nobody plans for, which is what you
do in November when the kid with the title is not leading.
What we cover:
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Why a team vote is a popularity contest, and what to
hand out instead
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Why your best player is frequently your worst captain
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Naming the job out loud so a captain knows what the
role requires
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The three asks: the first five minutes, the truth,
praise loud and correct quiet
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Handling a captain who is not leading without
humiliating him
This week's challenge: Before your first game, sit your
captains down alone and say out loud the three things you need from 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: 10 minutes 38
seconds
Audio file: 04_captains.mp3
LINKS
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https://heysammi.com/
Are You Picking
Captains or Just Holding an Election?

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13 min
October 09Ep 2037 What Happens When One Coach Gets an Hour on His Own Program?
Teach Hoops One-on-One Call
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TITLE
What Happens When One Coach Gets an Hour on His Own Program?
SUBTITLE
A Teach Hoops one on one call, where a single coach brings his actual situation and we work through it out loud.
SHOW NOTES
This is a recording of a Teach Hoops one on one call. Different from the group member calls: one coach, one program, and enough time to get past the surface of the problem to whatever is actually causing it. Names and details are shared with permission, and the value for you is that the underlying issue is almost never unique to him.
What we cover:
One coach's real situation, described in his own words

Getting underneath the stated problem to the actual one

Working the solution in real time instead of offering general advice

Where his instincts were right and where they were leading him wrong

What a coach can act on the very next day
This week's challenge: Write down the problem in your program you have been avoiding, in one sentence, and notice how much clearer it gets on paper.
Resources: One on one calls, member calls, practice plans, drills, and courses at https://teachhoops.com/
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30 min
October 08 Ep 2036 What Should You Actually Be Watching in Your First Scrimmage?
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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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8 min
October 07 Ep 2035 What if you built your first two weeks backwards from opening night?
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
LINKS
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https://heysammi.com/
What If You
Built Your First Two Weeks Backwards From Opening Night?

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13 min
October 06Ep 2034 What Does a Great Assistant Coach Actually Do?
Being an Assistant Coach
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TITLE
What Does a Great Assistant Coach Actually Do?
SUBTITLE
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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16 min
October 05 Ep 2033 Do you have standards, or do you just have a lot of rules?
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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https://heysammi.com/
Do You Have
Standards, or Do You Just Have a Lot of Rules?

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8 min

About 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:…