01 October 2026
Ep 2029 Who Is Going to Tell Him the Truth About His Role, You or the Scoreboard?
Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)
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TITLEWho Is Going to Tell Him the Truth About His Role, You or the Scoreboard? SUBTITLEThe four minute conversation every kid on your roster has earned, and the cowardly answer most of us give instead. SHOW NOTESEvery player on your team already has a role, whether you named it or not. Coach Steve Collins tells the story of a senior who invented his own role and spent two months fighting the wrong battle because nobody would sit him down. This episode is about the coach to player conversation itself: how short it should be, how specific it has to be, and why "just keep working hard" is the worst thing you can send a kid home with. What we cover: - If you do not name a kid's role he will invent one, and it will be too big- Why the talk has to happen before game four does it for you- The one thing that would move him, instead of a list of five- Giving him a role he can be great at rather than a smaller version of somebody else's- A role is not a ceiling, and why you have this conversation again in January This week's challenge: Get every kid on your roster alone for four minutes and tell him the truth before the scoreboard does. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at
https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Runtime: 4 minutes 52 seconds
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TITLEWho Is Going to Tell Him the Truth About His Role, You or the Scoreboard? SUBTITLEThe four minute conversation every kid on your roster has earned, and the cowardly answer most of us give instead. SHOW NOTESEvery player on your team already has a role, whether you named it or not. Coach Steve Collins tells the story of a senior who invented his own role and spent two months fighting the wrong battle because nobody would sit him down. This episode is about the coach to player conversation itself: how short it should be, how specific it has to be, and why "just keep working hard" is the worst thing you can send a kid home with. What we cover: - If you do not name a kid's role he will invent one, and it will be too big- Why the talk has to happen before game four does it for you- The one thing that would move him, instead of a list of five- Giving him a role he can be great at rather than a smaller version of somebody else's- A role is not a ceiling, and why you have this conversation again in January This week's challenge: Get every kid on your roster alone for four minutes and tell him the truth before the scoreboard does. Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at
https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. Runtime: 4 minutes 52 seconds
https://teachhoops.com/
https://coachingyouthhoops.com/
https://heysammi.com/
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