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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...)
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- 3 days ago8 min
Ep 2019 Is Winning Right Now Quietly Costing You the Team You Could Have Later?
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
- 4 days ago9 min
Ep 2018 Can You Stay Steady When the Scoreboard Does Not?
https://teachhoops.com/ What happens to your team when the head coach has a bad day? In this episode, Coach Collins takes a deep dive into one of the most important responsibilities of leadership: managing the emotional temperature of your program. Coaches often spend enormous amounts of time thinking about strategy, practice planning, player development, and culture. But players and assistant coaches are also constantly reading something else—the emotional state of the person leading them. Coach Collins uses the idea of the thermostat versus the thermometer to explain the difference. A thermometer simply reflects the temperature around it. A thermostat helps set it. Athletes naturally react to what is happening around them. Coaches have a greater responsibility. Their frustration, confidence, fear, patience, body language, and emotional consistency can quickly spread throughout a team. This becomes especially important when circumstances change quickly. Winning streaks, great practices, injuries, difficult losses, parent problems, player issues, staff disagreements, and unexpected setbacks can all happen within days of each other. If a coach’s emotional state rises and falls with every event, players begin experiencing leadership whiplash. The episode explores the idea that every coach has a leadership range. At the top end, coaches are clear, proactive, relational, confident, and able to see the big picture. At their baseline, they are steady and dependable. At the low end, fatigue and frustration can lead to emotional reactions, micromanaging, distance, impatience, or poor communication. The goal is not to pretend that great leaders never reach their low end. They do. The goal is to raise the floor. How do you behave when things go badly? Can you lose and still communicate clearly? Can you receive difficult news without bringing panic into the gym? Can you correct a player without turning your frustration into that athlete’s shame? Can your assistant coaches concentrate on coaching instead of trying to figure out what mood you are in? Those questions reveal a great deal about leadership. Coach Collins also challenges coaches to separate their identity from the scoreboard. Winning matters. Competition matters. Championships matter. But when a coach needs winning to validate who they are, the entire culture begins riding the emotional roller coaster with them. A great night means everything is wonderful. One loss suddenly makes everything feel broken. That is not stability. Great programs need leaders who can compete intensely while remaining grounded through both success and adversity. The episode gives coaches three practical questions for evaluating themselves: Did I act as the thermostat or the thermometer this week? What did my low end cost the people around me? And what boundary can I create to protect my emotional baseline next week? Sometimes that boundary is waiting before speaking after a difficult loss. Sometimes it is refusing to send the emotional text. Sometimes it is sleep, time away, perspective, or simply recognizing that an important decision should not be made while angry. For coaches trying to build sustainable culture, this episode is a reminder that your emotional regulation is not just personal. It becomes organizational. Players feel it. Assistant coaches feel it. Your program eventually reflects it. The scoreboard can change your circumstances. It does not have to change your leadership. basketball leadership, coaching leadership, basketball coaching, team culture, emotional leadership, thermostat vs thermometer, coach emotional control, leadership under pressure, coaching adversity, basketball culture, mental toughness for coaches, emotional regulation, head coach leadership, coaching staff, player development, program culture, leadership consistency, handling losses, coaching confidence, basketball program, high school basketball coach, coaching mindset, team leadership, sustainable culture, basketball podcast, TeachHoops Keywords Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 5 days ago17 min
Ep 2017 What Happens When You Stop Coaching Alone For Thirty Minutes? ( Part 2))
https://teachhoops.com/ Title: What Happens When You Stop Coaching Alone For Thirty Minutes? Subtitle: Inside the TeachHoops one on one call, and why the coaches who ask for help are the ones who get better fastest Show Notes Most coaches don't need more information. They're drowning in it. What they need is somebody to help them sort through it. That's the whole idea behind the TeachHoops one on one call. You get Coach Collins on the other end of the line, and you bring whatever the actual problem is. Not a general question. The real one. The rotation you can't figure out. The senior who's checked out. The parent email you've read four times and still haven't answered. The practice plan that looks fine on paper and falls apart at 4:15. What a call usually sounds like: You talk, he listens. Where the program is, what's working, what's keeping you up. The real problem gets named. Usually it isn't the one you called about. Turnovers aren't a press break problem. They're a spacing, catching, or preparation problem. You leave with something you can run Monday. Not a philosophy. A drill, a schedule change, a conversation to have, a plan. You get a second set of eyes that has no stake in it. No admin, no parents, no politics. Just a coach who's been there. Who it's for: the first year coach with nobody to ask, the veteran who's been running the same thing for eleven years and knows it, the coach who just took over a program that needs rebuilt, and the coach who's honestly just tired. Coach also gets into why so many coaches won't ask for help, what it costs them, and the difference between collecting drills and building a system. Coming to you from the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Book a call, or start with the fourteen day free trial: https://teachhoops.com/ Win the Week, Coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 6 days ago18 min
EP 2106 What Happens When You Stop Coaching Alone For Thirty Minutes? ( Part 1)
https://teachhoops.com/ Title: What Happens When You Stop Coaching Alone For Thirty Minutes? Subtitle: Inside the TeachHoops one on one call, and why the coaches who ask for help are the ones who get better fastest Show Notes Most coaches don't need more information. They're drowning in it. What they need is somebody to help them sort through it. That's the whole idea behind the TeachHoops one on one call. You get Coach Collins on the other end of the line, and you bring whatever the actual problem is. Not a general question. The real one. The rotation you can't figure out. The senior who's checked out. The parent email you've read four times and still haven't answered. The practice plan that looks fine on paper and falls apart at 4:15. What a call usually sounds like: You talk, he listens. Where the program is, what's working, what's keeping you up. The real problem gets named. Usually it isn't the one you called about. Turnovers aren't a press break problem. They're a spacing, catching, or preparation problem. You leave with something you can run Monday. Not a philosophy. A drill, a schedule change, a conversation to have, a plan. You get a second set of eyes that has no stake in it. No admin, no parents, no politics. Just a coach who's been there. Who it's for: the first year coach with nobody to ask, the veteran who's been running the same thing for eleven years and knows it, the coach who just took over a program that needs rebuilt, and the coach who's honestly just tired. Coach also gets into why so many coaches won't ask for help, what it costs them, and the difference between collecting drills and building a system. Coming to you from the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Book a call, or start with the fourteen day free trial: https://teachhoops.com/ Win the Week, Coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago6 min
Ep 2015 What Should You Say Before You Press Play in Every Film Session?
This episode is brought to you by TeachHoops.com, where ready-made film-study frameworks and practice plans give you hours of your life back every week. Today we fix the most common mistake in film study: pressing play without framing the clip. When you don't tell players exactly what to look for, they watch like fans — tracking the ball, admiring the highlight, missing the lesson entirely. We break down the framing method: one clip, one concept, one question asked before the video ever starts. You'll learn how to write a single-sentence frame for any teaching point, how framing transforms passive viewers into active problem-solvers, and why the question you ask before the clip matters more than anything you say after it. We also cover how to check for understanding without turning film sessions into interrogations that make players dread the room. Film doesn't lie, but unframed film doesn't teach either. This episode gives you a repeatable structure that makes every minute in the film room transfer to the floor. Grab the complete film-study system and session templates at https://teachhoops.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago13 min
Ep 2014 What Are The Three PRs Every Coach Has To Get Right?
https://teachhoops.com/ Title: What Are The Three PRs Every Coach Has To Get Right? Subtitle: Player relations, parent relations, public relations, and why losing your job usually comes down to one of them Show Notes Coach Collins sits down with a guest whose background is communications, not coaching, and it shows in the best way. She built a framework around three words that all end in the same two letters, and once you hear it you can't unhear it. Player relations. Parent relations. Public relations. Get those three right and most of the noise in your program goes away. PR number one: player relations This is the one she calls the most important relationship you'll ever have. And the honest part of the conversation is that it has changed. Coach Collins says it plainly. The Bobby Knight world is over. Adjust or become a dinosaur. You can even see it in Geno. But here's the piece that matters, and both of them land on it. Adjusting is not the same as lowering expectations. Core values are still core values. Fundamentals are still fundamentals. You just can't teach them with a hammer anymore and expect the kid to give you their best. The example she uses is the wraparound layup in the championship game. Player brings it down on the break, wraps the ball around her waist, puts up the layup, misses it. The old school reaction is "it don't take all that, just make the shot." But that move is who that player is. She makes it ten times a week in practice. Take it away and you take away the thing that makes her good. PR number two: parent relations Here the adjustment flips. With players, you adjust. With parents, they adjust to you. But that only works if you've set the stage early. The whole thing comes down to one word, and Coach Collins says it three times because he means it. Overcommunicate. There is no such thing as too much. What that actually looks like: A full practice schedule handed out from November through March. Every day. What time practice is, when the bus leaves, all of it. A month on a page calendar printed and in their hands. A weekly email every Sunday night. Here's the week. Weights got moved because of construction. Pasta dinner is at so and so's house. Parents know it's coming and they know everything is in it. Clear expectations stated out loud. What you expect from their kid. What you expect from them in the stands. What you expect from them after a game. She points out where most coaches get burned. Christmas break, going day to day, telling everybody at the end of Monday's practice what time they're going Tuesday. Then a family has a trip to grandma's and the kid misses two days and now everybody's upset. Plan, plan, plan. Then the part every high school coach should sit with. Coach Collins lists the three ways you actually lose a coaching job. You're inappropriate. You mishandle money. Or the parents come after you. And parents usually come after you because they don't know what's going on. If everything's running smooth, your admin leaves you alone. PR number three: public relations This is the one coaches skip, and she makes the case for why it pays you back. Get your town, your city, your community behind you and it doesn't just help your athletes, it helps your program. When you need funding you're not begging, you're asking people who already feel like they're part of it. Her line, borrowed from Dawn Staley, is that they're not fans, they're fam. The warning is against the photo op. Teams show up at the 3K walk, take the picture, post it, and never come back. That's not community work, that's marketing. Pick one cause and be consistent with it. Boys and Girls Club is her example. Go sit down in the chairs and talk to the kids. Not a clinic, not a demo. Just be there. Your players are closer to those kids' ages than any adult in the building. And she'll trade gym time for it. Make one practice a shootaround, take that hour, go be present. Coach Collins adds the part that ties it together. You're modeling. Same as parenting. If you come home and get smashed every night, you're modeling that. If you want your players to believe in giving back, they have to watch you do it. He tells his students the meaning of life is leaving the place a little better than you found it. She has a shorter version. Pay your rent for where you are. The quick summary Players: core values are core values, but be willing to adjust. Parents: set boundaries, communicate, and plan, plan, plan. Public: support the community and the community will support you. Also in this one: why the head assistant might have the best seat in the building, the twelve inches Coach Collins misses, and a math major explaining why he took the teaching job anyway. Mentioned in the episode: High School Hoops, and $450 off. Practice plans, drills, courses, mentorship, and the coaching community. Fourteen day free trial: https://teachhoops.com/ Win the Week, Coach. One heads up: the
- 1 weeks ago7 min
Ep 2013 What Makes a Film Clip Believable to a Sixteen-Year-Old?
https://teachhoops.com/ Today's episode is sponsored by TeachHoops.com, where veteran coaches mentor you through the exact challenges you're facing — because sometimes you need an answer tonight, not at the next clinic. In this episode, we challenge a habit almost every coach has: teaching with NBA clips. When a sixteenyear-old watches a professional make a play, he files it under entertainment, not instruction. The gap between him and that player is too wide to feel real. Enter the believable model: clips of players who look like your players — same age, same level, sometimes the same jersey — executing the concept correctly. We cover how to build a believablemodel clip library from your own game film, how one clip of your backup point guard making the right read outteaches an hour of professional highlights, and how peer modeling changes what players believe is possible for themselves. Belief, it turns out, is the real curriculum. Start clipping your own players doing it right this week, and watch how fast concepts start sticking. For clip organization tools and film-teaching courses built by coaches who use them, visit https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago12 min
Ep 2012 How Do You Actually Get Your Best Players Shots?
https://teachhoops.com/ https://teachhoops.com/ Title: How Do You Actually Get Your Best Players Shots? Subtitle: Why good shooters go quiet, and the built-in ways to make sure the ball finds them Show Notes Every coach has had this conversation. Your best scorer takes four shots. You look at the book after the game and you can't figure out how it happened. Nobody did anything wrong. The ball just never found her. Coach Collins gets into the real answer, which is that getting shots is not a talent thing or a hustle thing. It's a design thing. If your best shooter has to create everything on her own, she's going to have quiet nights, and the ones she does get will be the hard ones. What we cover: Know who your shots belong to. Write it down. If your staff can't name your top three options in order, your players definitely can't. Screen for your scorers, don't just screen with them. The quickest fix in the book. Most teams have their best shooter setting screens instead of coming off them. Build two or three actions you can call by name. Not a whole offense. Two or three things that get a specific kid a specific shot when you need one. Get the ball moving side to side. Second and third side shots are open shots. One side offense is guarded offense. Teach the pass before the shot. The shot is the last thing that happens. The pass that creates it is the thing nobody practices. Transition is free offense. Sprint lanes, early looks, before the defense gets matched up. Easiest shots your scorers will get all night. Tell your players out loud who's getting the ball. Roles get quiet when nobody says them. Say them. Coach also talks about the shooter who disappears in the second half, how to handle the kid who wants the shots but hasn't earned them yet, and the difference between a shot that's open and a shot that's good. Coming to you from the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Actions, drills, practice plans, and the coaching community: https://teachhoops.com/ Win the Week, Coach. Want the full ElevenLabs-ready script for this one? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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