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The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

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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 Basketball
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  • Ep 2037 Should Your Players Vote for Captains?

    Ep 2037 Should Your Players Vote for Captains?
    Oct 20 2026
    Visit TeachHoops.com for practice plans, drills, and coaching resources. The problem with a straight vote. Team votes often reward the best player or the most popular kid, not the best leader. Coach Collins explains why a vote alone can put the wrong players in charge of your culture. Define the job first. Before anyone is chosen, write down what a captain does in your program: sets the tone in warmups, holds teammates to the standard, communicates with coaches, and leads when no adult is watching. Watch October behavior. Leadership shows up in open gyms, conditioning, and tryouts. Track who encourages teammates, who arrives early, and who handles mistakes with maturity. Use player input, not a player vote. Collect private nominations where players explain why, then let the staff make the final call. Players feel heard and coaches keep responsibility. Consider a leadership council. A small group of three to five players spreads responsibility, includes quiet leaders and underclassmen, and avoids putting all the pressure on one or two kids. Train them every week. A captain title without training is just a word on a jersey. Hold a short weekly leadership meeting and give captains real tasks. This week's homework. Write a one paragraph job description for your captains and share it with your team before any selection happens. Welcome to the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast. I'm Coach Steve Collins. Today's question gets debated in every coaching office in America. Should your players vote for captains? I get the appeal. A vote feels fair. It gives players ownership. And sometimes it works. But here's what I've seen happen too many times. The team votes for the best player, or the most popular kid, or the senior who's fun to be around. And three weeks into the season, you realize you handed your culture to someone who never wanted the job and doesn't know how to do it. So let me offer a better way. It has four steps. Step one. Define the job before you fill it. Sit down and write what a captain actually does in your program. Here's an example. Sets the tone in warmups. Holds teammates to our standard, even friends. Communicates between players and coaches. Leads the same way when no adult is in the gym. Share that description with your team before anyone gets chosen. Now everyone knows what the job is. Step two. Watch October. Leadership is visible right now. Open gyms. Conditioning. Tryouts. Who's encouraging the freshman who's struggling? Who shows up early? Who handles a bad day without pouting? Have your staff keep notes. By the time you choose, you'll have evidence, not just impressions. Step three. Use player input, not a player vote. Hand every player a card. Ask them to name two teammates who live our standard, and to write one sentence about why. Read those cards carefully. They'll tell you a lot, including who the quiet leaders are. Then the staff makes the final decision. Players feel heard, and coaches keep responsibility for a decision that shapes the whole season. Step four. Train them. This is the step almost everybody skips. A captain title without training is just a word on a jersey. Meet with your captains once a week for fifteen minutes. Talk about what you're seeing. Give them real jobs. Lead the stretch. Run a drill. Check on a teammate who's had a rough week. Teach them how to correct a friend without embarrassing him. Leadership is a skill, and skills get coached. Now, one more idea. Think about a leadership council instead of one or two captains. Three to five players. Maybe a senior, a junior, and a sophomore who's already showing it. That spreads the responsibility, includes the quiet kids who lead by example, and keeps all the pressure from landing on one teenager's shoulders. And remember, your best player doesn't have to be your captain. Sometimes the best thing you can do for a star is let them focus on playing, while someone else carries the voice of the team. Sometimes the best captain is the kid who plays six minutes a night and makes everyone around him better. Let me tell you what a weekly captains meeting can look like. Fifteen minutes, before practice on Monday. Question one. What did you see last week that we need to keep doing? Question two. What did you see that worries you? Question three. Who on the team needs a lift right now? Then give them one job for the week. Maybe it's making sure the freshmen sit with the team at lunch on game days. Maybe it's leading a film breakdown. Small jobs build big leaders. Now, a mistake to avoid. Don't make captains your enforcers. If their main job is reporting teammates to you, they'll lose the locker room fast. Their job is to model the standard, encourage, and handle small things peer to peer. The big discipline stays with the coaches. When you protect that line, captains keep their credibility with their teammates. And be honest when a captain isn't working. It happens. A kid struggles with the responsibility, or his own ...
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    6 Min.
  • Ep 2036 How do you run Competitive Practices?

    Ep 2036 How do you run Competitive Practices?
    Oct 19 2026
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    8 Min.
  • 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.
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