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The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

Di: Steve Collins (Teachhoops.com)
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The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast will share, tips, drills and much more Published Mon-Friday at 7:00 am© 2020 Pallacanestro
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  • Ep 2035 What Should You Say at Your Preseason Parent Meeting?

    Ep 2035 What Should You Say at Your Preseason Parent Meeting?
    Oct 16 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Visit TeachHoops.com for practice plans, drills, and coaching resources. Why this meeting matters more than your first game. Parents who understand your program become allies. Parents who are surprised become critics. Coach Collins explains why thirty minutes in October saves dozens of hours in January. Start with who you are. Open with your team identity and what you are building. Parents support a vision they can understand. Explain how decisions get made. Be clear that coaches decide the roster, roles, and playing time, and explain what those decisions are based on. Transparency about the process is not the same as negotiating the outcome. The communication policy. Share a simple path: the player talks to the coach first, a parent meeting can follow, and nothing gets discussed right after a game. A twenty four hour cooling off rule protects everyone. What you expect, and what they can expect. Ask parents to be fans, not coaches, from the stands. Then tell them what you promise in return: honesty, safety, communication, and care for their child. The car ride home. Coach Collins closes with one request for parents: make the car ride home about support, not analysis. Five simple words can change a season: I love watching you play. This week's homework. Build a one page handout with your identity, communication policy, schedule, and contact information, and run your meeting in thirty minutes or less. Welcome to the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast. I'm Coach Steve Collins. Today's question. What should you say at your preseason parent meeting? Here's how I see it. Your parent meeting might be the most important thirty minutes of your season. Parents who understand your program become your biggest allies. Parents who get surprised become your loudest critics. So let's walk through an agenda that builds trust and draws clear lines. Start with who you are. Open with your team identity. Tell them what you're building and why. Parents will support a vision they understand. If you say, we're going to be the hardest working, most unselfish team in the conference, they now have a lens to watch every game through. Next, explain how decisions get made. Be clear and be calm. The coaching staff decides the roster, roles, and playing time. Then tell them what those decisions are based on. Practice performance. Effort. Attitude. Fit within the team. Being transparent about the process is not the same thing as negotiating the outcome. You're telling them how you think, not asking for a vote. Then share your communication policy. Keep it simple. Step one, the player talks to the coach. We want our kids learning to advocate for themselves. Step two, if a parent still has a concern, we'll set up a meeting. And here's the big one. Nothing gets discussed right after a game. We use a twenty four hour rule. Emotions are high after games, for parents, for players, and honestly, for coaches too. A day of space protects everybody. Now, what do you expect from them? I ask parents to be fans, not coaches. Cheer for every player, not just your own. Leave the officials alone. And please, don't give your child different instructions than we gave them in the huddle. A kid who hears two voices freezes. And then, what can they expect from you? This is the part coaches forget. Tell them what you promise. I will be honest with your child. I will keep them safe. I will communicate the schedule clearly. And I will care about who they are, not just how they play. When parents hear your promises, they're much more willing to accept your boundaries. I like to finish with one request. The car ride home. That ride can make or break a kid's season. Ask parents to make it about support, not analysis. No breakdown of every turnover. No commentary on the coach's decisions. Just five words. I love watching you play. That's it. You'd be amazed how much that changes a kid's experience. A couple of practical tips. Keep the meeting to thirty minutes. Hand out a one page sheet with your identity, your communication policy, the schedule, and how to reach you. Have your assistants there so parents know the whole staff. And leave a few minutes for questions, but steer individual player conversations to a separate time. Let me share a few things not to do at the parent meeting. Don't talk about individual players. Don't make promises about playing time, starting spots, or college recruiting. And don't spend twenty minutes on your offense. Parents don't need to know your sets. They need to know your values, your process, and how to talk to you. Here's another idea that's worked for a lot of coaches. Invite your captains or a couple of seniors to speak for two minutes. Let them tell parents what this team means to them and what they're working toward. Parents hear things differently when they come from players. It also shows them the culture you're building is real, not just a speech from the coach. And think about the parents who ...
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    6 min
  • Ep 2034 What are you rebounding absolutes?

    Ep 2034 What are you rebounding absolutes?
    Oct 15 2026
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  • Ep 2033 How Do You Cut a Player Without Breaking Them?

    Ep 2033 How Do You Cut a Player Without Breaking Them?
    Oct 14 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Visit TeachHoops.com for practice plans, drills, and coaching resources. Why the list on the door has to go. Posting names on a gym door or a website is efficient for the coach and brutal for the player. Coach Collins explains why every cut deserves a face to face conversation, even when there are dozens of them. Set expectations before tryouts begin. Tell players and parents on day one how decisions will be communicated, when, and by whom. A clear process removes surprise and cuts down on angry emails. The three part conversation. Every cut meeting covers two things the player did well, one or two honest reasons they did not make the roster, and a specific path forward. Keep it to three to five minutes and keep an assistant in the room. Words that help and words that hurt. Avoid vague phrases like it was close or numbers game. Be specific and kind. Do not make promises you cannot keep about next year. Seniors and the last cut. Seniors who are cut deserve extra care, and the last player cut is the hardest decision on the roster. Coach Collins shares how to handle both with honesty. Keep the door open. Offer a follow up meeting, a summer workout plan, or a role such as manager or practice player when it fits. Many kids come back better because of how they were cut. This week's homework. Write your cut meeting script, choose the assistant who will sit in, and tell your players exactly how the process will work. Welcome to the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast. I'm Coach Steve Collins. Today we're talking about the hardest part of October. How do you cut a player without breaking them? Let me start with something I believe deeply. The way you cut a kid will be remembered longer than any game you win this season. That player will tell their parents about it. They'll tell their friends. Someday they might tell their own kids. So let's do it right. First, never post the list. I know it's efficient. I know you might have fifty kids trying out. But a list on a gym door means a fifteen year old finds out the worst news of their year in front of a crowd. Every kid who gave you three days of effort deserves a few minutes of your time, face to face. Second, set the expectations before tryouts even start. On day one, tell players and parents exactly how decisions will be shared, when, and by whom. Something like this. On Thursday after practice, every player will meet with me individually for a few minutes. When the process is clear, there are fewer surprises and a lot fewer angry emails. Third, use a simple structure for the conversation. I use three parts. One, tell them two things they did well, and be specific. You communicated on defense better than anyone in your group. Two, give them one or two honest reasons they didn't make the roster. Right now your ball handling under pressure isn't where it needs to be at this level. Three, give them a path forward. Here's what I'd work on, and here's who can help you. Keep it short. Three to five minutes. And always have an assistant in the room. That protects you, it protects the player, and it gives you a witness to what was actually said. Now, a word about language. Avoid the vague stuff. It was really close. It's just a numbers game. Kids hear that as, there's nothing I could have done. Be specific and be kind. And never make promises about next year that you can't keep. Don't say you'll definitely make it next season. Say, if you do this work, you'll give yourself a real chance. Seniors deserve extra care. A senior who gets cut is losing their last chance to wear the jersey. Meet with them first, give them more time, and when it fits, offer them a real role. A manager. A practice player. Somebody who's still part of the family. And the last cut. That's the one that keeps you up at night. Be honest with yourself about why. Go back to your rubric. Go back to your identity. When you can explain the decision in those terms, you can look that kid in the eye. Finally, keep the door open. Offer a follow up meeting in a week, when emotions have settled. Give them a workout plan. Invite them to open gym in the spring. Some of the best players I've seen were cut once, and came back hungrier because a coach treated them with respect. Let me give you an example of how that conversation can sound. Jordan, thanks for sitting down with me. First, I want you to know two things you did really well. You competed on every rep in the shell drill, and you were one of the best communicators in the gym. Here's where you're not there yet. At this level, we need guards who can handle pressure, and right now that's still a work in progress for you. So this year, you're not on the roster. Here's what I'd do. Work on your ball handling against pressure every day. Come to our spring open gym. And come see me in a month so we can talk about your plan. That's about ninety seconds. Honest, specific, and respectful. Now, prepare yourself for emotion. Some kids will cry....
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    6 min
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