# Ep 366 Why Won't Your Players Listen, and What Can You Actually Do About It?

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Podcast: [Coaching Youth Hoops (Youth Basketball Coach)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coaching-youth-hoops-youth-basketball-coach-5343716)
Published: 2026-09-01T11:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 875

## Resource

nukehydration.com, or follow along on Instagram @nukehydration. Use Youthhoops15 for 15% off TeachHoops.com CoachingYouthHoops.com — practice plans, season resources, and the free tryout structure guide under the Free Resources menu HeySami.com — new text based youth sports organization tool (Sami with an i) The Hey Sami Podcast — available on Spotify, Apple, and anywhere you listen Questions for Hey Sami: hey@heysami.com Coaching Youth Hoops Facebook Group — search "Coaching Youth Hoops" on Facebook Show Notes This one came straight out of the Coaching Youth Hoops Facebook group, and it lit the group up: how do you get kids to focus and concentrate during practice? Coach Bill opens with what he calls the worst coaching experience of his twenty year career. He took over a CYO boys team that had no coach, a roster loaded with talent, and an attention span somewhere around zero. They could have won everything. Instead, he spent the season pulling his hair out. Coming right out of COVID, he felt the boys had been hit harder than the girls, and the lack of discipline was something no drill was going to fix on its own. What made it worse is that his best lever was gone. In a CYO league with equal playing time, a kid could skip practice or goof off all week and still had to play. Take that away and, as Coach Bill puts it, the bench is a great teacher. Without it, he tried everything in the toolkit, including having one player run for an entire practice. Coach Collins pushes the conversation toward the thing most coaches can control: the practice plan itself. Idle minds make idle players. If a kid stands still for more than thirty seconds, he is tugging a jersey, poking a teammate, or starting something. The fix is not more yelling, it is no dead time. Eliminate the standing…

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