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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 2044 Why Are Your Players Still Running Suicides?

    Ep 2044 Why Are Your Players Still Running Suicides?
    Oct 29 2026
    Visit TeachHoops.com for practice plans, drills, and coaching resources. The problem with line sprints. Suicides build fatigue, but not basketball fitness. Basketball is a game of short bursts, changes of direction, and decisions made while tired. Coach Collins explains why straight line running misses most of that. Running as punishment backfires. When conditioning is used as a consequence, players learn to dread the very thing that makes them better. Separate accountability from fitness. Conditioning through competition. Continuous full court drills like three on two into two on one, eleven man fast break, and timed transition games build game shape while teaching skills. Keep score, and the effort takes care of itself. Match the work to the game. Design drills around game like work and rest, with intense bursts of thirty to forty five seconds followed by short recovery, so players train the way they will actually play. Decisions while tired. The real test of conditioning is making the right pass or the right defensive rotation late in a game. Put shooting and decision making at the end of hard reps. Measure it. Use one simple timed full court test early and repeat it in a few weeks so players can see their improvement. This week's homework. Replace one block of line sprints with a scored, continuous full court drill and track how many minutes your team stays at game speed. Welcome to the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast. I'm Coach Steve Collins. Today I want to ask you a question that might ruffle a few feathers. Why are your players still running suicides? I understand where it comes from. A lot of us ran them. We remember the burning legs and the coach with the whistle, and we think, that's how you get tough. But let's be honest about what line sprints actually build. Tired legs. A fear of the baseline. And a lot of kids who dread the end of practice. Basketball isn't a track meet. It's short bursts. Changes of direction. Sliding, cutting, jumping, and then making a decision while you're exhausted. Straight line sprints miss most of that. So let's talk about how to get your team in real game shape. First, stop using running as punishment. When conditioning becomes the consequence for a turnover or a late arrival, players learn to hate the very thing that makes them better. Keep accountability and fitness separate. If you need a consequence, find one that isn't the thing you want them to love. Second, condition through competition. Put a ball in their hands. Three on two continuous into two on one. Eleven man fast break. Full court one on one with a time limit. Transition games where the team that scores sprints back on defense. Keep score in every one of them. When there's a winner and a loser, you won't have to yell about effort. The competition does it for you. Third, match the work to the game. A possession in basketball is short and intense. So build drills with bursts of thirty to forty five seconds of all out work, followed by a short recovery, then go again. Train the way they play. Your players will be in shape for the fourth quarter, not just for the last sprint of practice. Fourth, and this is the one I love, train decisions while tired. Anybody can make the right pass when they're fresh. Put a shooting drill right after your hardest full court rep. Run your defensive shell after a conditioning block. Late game execution is a conditioning skill. If you never practice thinking while tired, you'll see it on the scoreboard in the final two minutes. Now, I'm not saying you never run without a ball. Early in the season, one simple timed test can be valuable. Run it the first week. Run it again three or four weeks later. Let the players see the improvement. That builds confidence, and it shows them the work is paying off. And here's the bonus. When your conditioning has a ball in it, you're getting skill reps at the same time. Every minute of a suicide is a minute without a ball. Every minute of a scored transition drill is passing, finishing, communicating, and getting in shape all at once. In a season where practice time is precious, that's a huge win. Let me give you a sample conditioning block that keeps the ball in their hands. Start with three on two continuous for four minutes, scored. Then one minute of rest and free throws. Then the eleven man fast break for four minutes, with a goal of a certain number of layups made. One more minute of rest and free throws. Finish with a full court shell where every stop leads to a sprint the other way. That's about twelve minutes, and your players get as tired as any set of line sprints, but they're getting better at basketball the whole time. Now, a mistake to avoid. Don't confuse exhaustion with improvement. A team lying on the floor at the end of practice looks tough, but if your players are too tired to execute, you're building bad habits. Push them hard, but keep the quality high. When technique breaks down completely, back off for a ...
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    6 min
  • Ep 2043 Win the Season

    Ep 2043 Win the Season
    Oct 28 2026
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    5 min
  • Ep 2042 What Should You Teach in Your First Ten Practices?

    Ep 2042 What Should You Teach in Your First Ten Practices?
    Oct 27 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Visit TeachHoops.com for practice plans, drills, and coaching resources. The overload trap. Coaches walk into the first practice with a full playbook and walk into the first game with a confused team. Coach Collins explains why the order you teach things matters as much as what you teach. Defense first. Stance, ball pressure, and help principles come first because they travel to every game and every opponent. Defense also sets the competitive tone for the whole season. Transition defense next. Getting back and building a wall stops easy baskets, which are the fastest way to lose early season games. Offensive principles before plays. Teach spacing, cutting, and passing rules before installing sets. Players who understand principles can run anything you add later. The game one checklist. By opening night, you need your man defense, transition defense, one primary offense, one press break, one baseline out of bounds play, one sideline out of bounds play, and your end of game situations. Everything else can wait. Whole, part, whole teaching. Show the full concept, break it into pieces, then put it back together in live play. This keeps practices game like and keeps players engaged. This week's homework. Map your first ten practices on one page, with the game one checklist at the top, and cut anything that is not on it. Welcome to the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast. I'm Coach Steve Collins. Today's question is all about planning. What should you teach in your first ten practices? Here's a trap I see every year. A coach walks into practice one with a full playbook. Three offenses. Two presses. A dozen out of bounds plays. And by the first game, the team knows a little bit of everything and can't execute any of it under pressure. The order you teach things matters as much as what you teach. So let me give you an install order that works. Start with defense. Stance. Ball pressure. Closeouts. Help side principles. Why defense first? Because it travels. It works against every opponent, in every gym, on nights when your shots don't fall. And defense sets the competitive tone. When your first week is about guarding, your players learn right away that effort is the price of admission. Next, transition defense. Sprinting back. Stopping the ball. Building a wall. Early in the season, easy baskets in transition are the fastest way to lose games. If you can make teams score against your set defense every trip, you're already ahead of most programs in November. Then, offensive principles before plays. Spacing. Cutting. Passing rules. What we do when a teammate drives. What we do when we're denied. Players who understand principles can run anything you add later. Players who only memorize plays fall apart the moment the defense takes something away. Now here's the most important part. Build a game one checklist. Write it at the top of every practice plan. By opening night, you need seven things. Your man to man defense. Your transition defense. One primary offense. One press break. One baseline out of bounds play. One sideline out of bounds play. And your end of game situations, like protecting a lead and getting a quick score. That's it. Seven things. Everything else can wait until December. When something isn't on the checklist, ask yourself, does this need to be in by game one? If the answer is no, park it. Write it on a list for week four. You'll be amazed how much calmer your practices get. A quick word on how to teach. Use whole, part, whole. Show the full concept first so players see the picture. Break it into pieces and drill the pieces. Then put it back together in live play. That keeps practice game like, and it keeps players from getting bored in endless breakdown drills. And build in review. Every new install should get touched again two or three days later. Teaching once is not the same as learning. Repetition across days is what makes things stick. One last thought. Your first ten practices also teach habits. How you start practice. How you transition between drills. How fast players move from station to station. Those habits matter just as much as your schemes. Let me show you what a practice in that first week could look like. Ten minutes of dynamic warmup and form shooting. Fifteen minutes of defensive footwork and stance. Fifteen minutes of shell drill. Ten minutes of transition defense. Fifteen minutes of offensive spacing and passing rules in a two on two and three on three setting. Ten minutes of live competition, scored. Five minutes of free throws while tired. Then end with one special situation. That's ninety minutes, almost all of it building the foundation, with competition built in. Now, a mistake to avoid. Don't let your first scrimmage drive your install. A lot of coaches see their team struggle against a press in the first scrimmage and panic, and suddenly they're installing three new things in a week. Stay with your plan. A rough scrimmage in November usually ...
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    7 min
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