The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

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Ep 2030 Is Your Coaching Staff Really on the Same Page?

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/10/09

Visit TeachHoops.com for practice plans, drills, and coaching resources.The meeting most coaches skip. Coaches spend hours on X's and O's and almost no time aligning the adults who teach them. Coach Collins makes the case for one real staff meeting before tryouts, with an agenda, a notepad, and no phones. Question one: who are we? Every coach in the program should be able to say the team's identity sentence word for word. If the levels teach different identities, players get mixed messages and

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7:19

Ep 2029. How do you guard your Yard?

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/10/08

Teachhoops.com⁠⁠WintheSeason.com⁠ ⁠CoachingYouthHoops.com⁠ ⁠https://forms.gle/kQ8zyxgfqwUA3ChU7⁠ ⁠Coach Collins Coaching Store⁠ Check out. [Teachhoops.com](⁠https://teachhoops.com/⁠) 14 day Free Trial Youth Basketball Coaches Podcast Apple link:⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coaching-youth-hoops/id1619185302⁠ Spotify link:⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0g8yYhAfztndxT1FZ4OI3A⁠ ⁠Funnel Down Defense

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5:35

Ep 2028 Can You Say Your Team's Identity in One...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/10/07

https://teachhoops.com/Visit TeachHoops.com for practice plans, drills, and coaching resources. Why identity comes first. October is when coaches order gear and draw up sets. Coach Collins argues the first job is simpler and more important: write one sentence that tells a player, a parent, and an assistant exactly what kind of team you will be. Every October decision, from tryout selections to practice minutes, flows from that sentence. The three part formula. A strong identity sentence answers

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Ep 2027 Building Confidence in your Players

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/10/06

Teachhoops.com⁠⁠WintheSeason.com⁠⁠ ⁠CoachingYouthHoops.com⁠ ⁠https://forms.gle/kQ8zyxgfqwUA3ChU7⁠ ⁠Coach Collins Coaching Store⁠ Check out. [Teachhoops.com](⁠https://teachhoops.com/⁠) 14 day Free Trial Youth Basketball Coaches Podcast Apple link:⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coaching-youth-hoops/id1619185302⁠ Spotify link:⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0g8yYhAfztndxT1FZ4OI3A⁠ ⁠Funnel Down Defense

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9:43

Ep 2026 Do you have a Pre Season Philosophy

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/10/05

Teachhoops.com⁠⁠WintheSeason.com⁠ ⁠CoachingYouthHoops.com⁠ ⁠https://forms.gle/kQ8zyxgfqwUA3ChU7⁠ ⁠Coach Collins Coaching Store⁠ Check out. [Teachhoops.com](⁠https://teachhoops.com/⁠) 14 day Free Trial Youth Basketball Coaches Podcast Apple link:⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coaching-youth-hoops/id1619185302⁠ Spotify link:⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0g8yYhAfztndxT1FZ4OI3A⁠ ⁠Funnel Down Defense

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6:34

Ep 2025 Are You Punishing the Exact Mistakes That...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/10/02

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

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10:07

Ep 2024 Building Culture

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/10/01

Teachhoops.com⁠⁠WintheSeason.com⁠ ⁠CoachingYouthHoops.com⁠ ⁠https://forms.gle/kQ8zyxgfqwUA3ChU7⁠ ⁠Coach Collins Coaching Store⁠ Check out. [Teachhoops.com](⁠https://teachhoops.com/⁠) 14 day Free Trial Youth Basketball Coaches Podcast Apple link:⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coaching-youth-hoops/id1619185302⁠ Spotify link:⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0g8yYhAfztndxT1FZ4OI3A⁠ ⁠Funnel Down Defense

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Ep 2003 Is Your Team Great at Practice and Lost in...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/30

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

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Ep 2002 What Would You Put in a Sports Drink If You...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/29

TeachHoops.comNukeHydration.com — ready to drink clean sports hydration, shipped nationwide. Sample pack (two Lime Time, two OG Orange, plus extras) is $19.99 with shipping included. Use code YOUTHHOOPS15 for 15% off, sample pack included CoachingYouthHoops.com Is Your Kid Actually Hydrated, or Just Drinking Something Blue? The couple taking on Gatorade from a Mississippi warehouse. Coach Bill sits down with Marty and Lesley Frascogna, the husband and wife team behind Nuke Hydration and a

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7:50

Ep 2001 Are You Adding Potential or Removing...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/28

https://teachhoops.com/Performance equals potential minus interference. That one equation, borrowed from Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis, is the spine of this episode, and it flips the way most coaches think about player development. Nearly all of our energy goes into the first half of that equation. Better drills, better lifts, better skill work, better film. But Coach Collins argues that some of the biggest breakthroughs in a season do not come from adding anything at all. They come

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39:09

Ep 2000 What Make a Successful Coach and Program

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/25

https://teachhoops.com/teachhoops-memberships/2000/https://www.thechampionshipcoach.com/ When Your Tank Is Only 80% Full, Is It Time to Walk Away? Episode 2000: Coach Bill turns the microphone on Steve Collins for a conversation about 37 years on the sideline, three state titles, one 7 and 14 season, and what the game actually owes the kids who never become stars.For the 2000th episode of Coach Unplugged, the format flips. Coach Bill takes over the questions and Steve sits in the guest chair for

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Ep 1999 Are You the Thermostat or the Thermometer for...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/24

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

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Ep 1998. How Do Youth Parents Deal with Tryouts

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/23

Parents' Role in TryoutsLinks mentioned in this episode TeachHoops.com CoachingYouthHoops.com — print and go practice plans built from years of coaching, not ChatGPT NukeHydration.com — clean sports drink for kids and coaches, started by a couple out of Mississippi. Use code YOUTHHOOPS15 for 15% off any order What Is a Parent Actually Supposed to Do During Tryouts? Shoes, snacks, and getting out of the way. Fall basketball season is kicking off, tryouts are here, and Coach Bill wants

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Ep 1997 Is Your Culture Already Set Before the First...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/22

Visit https://teachhoops.com/ for more coaching resources, practice plans, and the TeachHoops community.Title: Is Your Culture Already Set Before the First Game Tips Off? Subtitle: Why the six weeks before tryouts decide more about your season than any scouting report, and how to build the standards your players will hold each other to when you are not in the gym. Show Notes Most coaches think culture gets built during the season. In this episode we make the case that by the time the first

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12:33

Ep 1996 What Are the Things That Show Up in Every...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/21

https://teachhoops.com/This episode of the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast is brought to you by teachhoops.com, the coaching platform built by a coach for coaches who want their gym time to matter. Every coach has walked out of a practice that felt great and every coach has walked out of one that felt like ninety wasted minutes. The difference is rarely talent or effort. It is whether a handful of specific things were present. Coach lays out what those things are so you can build them into

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11:40

Ep 1995 Is Your Practice Setup Costing You Twenty...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/18

https://teachhoops.com/Today's episode of the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast comes to you from teachhoops.com, the coaching platform built to hand you the plan instead of making you invent one every night. Coach opens with a topic that sounds boring and quietly decides your season: how you set up practice before players ever touch the floor. Baskets, balls, cones, groups, who is where, and what happens the second a drill ends. Get that right and you gain real minutes every single day. The

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8:06

Ep 1994 Do Your Players Actually Know What a Good...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/17

https://teachhoops.com/This episode is presented by teachhoops.com, where coaches get the systems and drills that turn ideas into habits. Shot selection is one of those things coaches complain about constantly and teach almost never. We yell "bad shot" after it goes up, then move on without ever defining what a good shot actually is. Coach makes the case that shot selection is a teachable skill, not a personality trait, and that clarity fixes most of it. The core framework is simple enough for a

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Ep 1993 Practice Time, Practice Length, and Getting...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/16

https://teachhoops.com/Brought to you by teachhoops.com, a platform built by a coach for coaches who want their limited gym time to count. Practice time is the one resource every coach wishes they had more of, and the one most coaches quietly waste. This episode takes an honest look at how long practice should be at different levels, how to break that time into pieces, and what to cut when the clock forces a decision. Coach starts with length by age group. Youth practices that stretch past an

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Ep 1992 How Do You Teach So It Actually Sticks?

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/15

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

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Ep 1991 Why Do So Few Teams Screen Well, and How Do...

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast ·

2026/09/14

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

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