90 Minutes of Mayhem is really what you've signed up for listening to this podcast. All you need to know is somebody refuses to wear underwear, somebody got stabbed, and nobody here has good taste in food.

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In this episode we talk to maxes coach, Coach Pish, about how to get more minutes, what separates average players from great players, why you need to be a score first player, and some of his crazy basketball stories.

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0:00 Intro

1:48 Did Coach Pish Hoop When Growing Up? / Early Basketball

9:30 How To Command Respect as A Young Coach

11:58 Building a Relationship With Your Players

16:25 Elms Coaching Job

19:50 Building a Team From The Ground Up

24:42 Recruiting For Next Year

26:25 Freshman vs Transfers

27:59 Tryouts

30:25 Current Elms Roster

33:10 Why Do Details Matter?

36:13 The Pocket / The Slot

42:22 Nebraska Wesleyan

44:38 What Separates Great Players From Average Players

47:19 Halftimes during practices

51:36 The Worst Thing You Can Do In Basketball Is Not Look To Score

54:03 How Do You Decide Who To Sub And When?

58:04 Chemistry Comes From Predictability

1:00:30 Hobbies To Relax Away From Coaching?

1:06:40 How To Get More Minutes?

1:09:40 Metrics For Success

1:12:23 Head Coach Lessons

1:13:58 Crazy College Basketball Stories

1:16:34 One Piece Of Advice To Your Younger Self

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Connor has a crazy story from dropping out of college, battling a cocaine addiction, making 20,000$ on a sports betting glitch, and playing college basketball after a year long hiatus. Join us as we dive into how basketball helped him through that tough time, our experiences with different styles of coaching, and whether or not Chris should make a d3 basketball comeback.

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0:00 Intro

1:20 Connor’s Story

6:19 Sports betting glitch

13:02 the turnaround moment

21:45 First Year Back

25:14 Second Year Back

30:12 How Did You Get To Elms?

34:38 Coming Into Year 3 / Elms Team This Year

40:49 Chrises College Basketball Comeback?

47:57 Lessons From Addiction / Confidence

54:21 Connors Aspirations Outside The Court

1:02:40 PSA To High-school Players

1:09:14 3 Traits Of A College Basketball Player *

1:14:27 What Do You Want People To Say About You When You Die?

1:16:59 Lessons Basketball Has Given You?

1:17:55 One Piece Of Advice You Would Give To Your Addicted Self?

Shawn was the only freshman to make the Elm’s Men’s basketball team this year, in this episode we try to break down the secrets for making freshman season as successful as possible.

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0:00 Intro

1:30 why were you the only freshman to make the team

3:46 How Did You Find Out About Elms?

5:23 highschool

10:15 your role in college

11:28 Goals for this season

16:20 Skills That Make You Successful as a smal guard

21:38 Creating “Comfortability” On The Court

25:48 Learning From a 1000 Point Scorer

31:30 coaches need basketball experience

35:30 Shawn’s Questions For Us

39:14 Shawn’s Hobbies Off The Court (or lack there of)

43:00 Piece of Advice For All Freshman Hoopers

44:06 What Made Max Keep Hooping?

49:52 When Did You Know You Loved Basketball

50:58 one message to highschool hoopers

Andrew Ciaglo joins us today to talk about his experience playing 2 years of D2 Basketball at Cameron university in Oklahoma, being an undersized guard, playing college baseball, and all you can eat sushi.

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0:00 Intro

1:00 Baseball

5:32 How Did You End Up At Elms College

8:12 Andrew Meeting Max

10:24 Tryouts

18:12 Golf

20:55 All You Can Eat Sushi

22:41 Off Ball Movement

24:30 Scoring 1000 points in highschool

25:38 Making The Elms Team*

30:46 Coaching Values And Principles

32:16 Goals For This Year/Summer

34:56 Why Do You Keep Grinding?

37:34 After Basketball

41:04 Balancing 2 College Sports

44:39 D2 vs D3 Basketball

46:24 Travelling At The D2 Level

53:21 Living On A Farm

56:51 Playing Up In Competition

57:40 One Piece Of Advice To Your Younger Self

Breaking down how Aden developed mentally for basketball, why he thinks it’s important to not just play 5 on 5 when trying to improve your game, and how Aden works on his addressing the weak points of his game.

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0:00 Intro

0:45 How Do You Feel About Elms

4:50 Tryouts For College Teams

16:49 Playing For Different Coaches

23:48 Recruitment

32:39 The Mental Aspect of Sports

40:36 Never Underestimate Someone

41:44 Aiden’s Goals On The Court

48:52 Handling Pressure On The Court

50:31 Coaching Basketball

1:00:08 Working On Your Weaknesses

1:06:08 Outside of Basketball

1:07:08 Crazy College Basketball Stories

1:10:33 One Piece of Advice To Your Younger Self

Just Yapping for about an hour, some life updates, and Chrises sales experience .

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0:00 Intro

1:10 Updates

10:31 Technical difficulties

11:50 Chris Got Fired

13:00 Lessons

13:57 Confidence Can Make Up For Skill

18:22 The Wrong Direction Is Better Than No Direction

19:56 Using Skills As Leverage

21:20 Level of Deprivation

31:44 Maxes Internship

34:21 Basketball Lessons For Max

38:45 What Would Younger Chris Think?

41:30 Golf

46:31 The New Plan

1:00:07 Max Playing In Israel / Yapping

1:05:33 Underskilled Or Underlived 30 Year Old?

This is the second part of the Brad Matsugu episode, in this episode he breaks down how to create mental toughness and why it's important to develop at a young age, why you should focus on your strengths early in your basketball career, and why winning isn't the only important thing to prioritize as a coach.