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Ep 367 When the Other Team Goes on a Run, Do You Burn a Timeout?
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- Sep 3, 2026
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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: [email protected] Coaching Youth Hoops Facebook Group — search "Coaching Youth Hoops" on Facebook Show Notes Another question pulled from the Coaching Youth Hoops Facebook group, and it is one every coach faces about four times a weekend: the other team rips off a run, the gym gets loud, your kids' shoulders drop. Do you call timeout? Before the topic, the guys catch up. Coach Bill and Coach Collins have only met face to face three times in three years, most recently in Calistoga for what they are calling Coach Collins' launch party into full time entrepreneurial life rather than a retirement party. Nobody is going to find him in a rocking chair on the front stoop. Youth basketball is not high school or college. Depending on the tournament you might have one, two, or four timeouts for an entire game. In a typical four timeout tournament you get two per half, they do not carry over, and if you sit on the first two they are simply gone. Use them or lose them. Tournaments are built to keep games moving, especially with twenty minute running halves, which means every timeout you spend is a real decision. The golden rule both coaches keep circling back to is roughly six points. That is the point where most coaches feel the pull to stop and regroup. But the real answer is that it depends on your team, and Coach Bill's advice is to decide that number before the game…