{"podcast":{"title":"Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)","slug":"basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496","podcast_index_feed_id":174496,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BLU1636519163","website_url":"http://teachhoops.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d624ee96-f5f1-11eb-aea4-63c25e230be3/image/59874fe5b8c8f6cb0290391e3ed5ab6c.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"teachhoops.com","episode_count":2793,"summary":"This Podcast will discuss basketball coaching with Coach Steve Collins. Coach Collins will do this with interviews and on topic discussions. (Discussion will revolve around basketball topics such as: Offense, Defense, Motivation, Team Building, Youth Basketball, High School Basketball, college basketball and much more...) We will publish weekly shows at 6:00 am..... Please check out our site if you like our podcast. www.teachhoops.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T00:20:58.166949+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 1948 Building a Championship Roadmap: Inside Our TeachHoops.com Coaching Call( Part 2)","slug":"ep-1948-building-a-championship-roadmap-inside-our-teachhoops-com-coaching-call-part-2","published_at":"2026-06-11T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496/ep-1948-building-a-championship-roadmap-inside-our-teachhoops-com-coaching-call-part-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/p.podderapp.com/3154757013/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG2926241341.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/p.podderapp.com/3154757013/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG2926241341.mp3","summary":"https://teachhoops.com/ teachhoops.com Episode Title: Are You Teaching Summer Defense… or Just Letting Kids Play? Summer league is where defensive habits are either built… or destroyed. If you let kids “just play” in June, you’ll spend all winter trying to fix the same issues: no talk, lazy closeouts, no box outs, and zero urgency. This episode gives coaches a simple, repeatable way to teach real defense in the summer without turning workouts into misery: One Rule Defense. You don’t magically become a good defensive team in-season. You become who you are in June. Whatever you allow now becomes your identity later. Players gamble and reach instead of containing Nobody communicates early on screens and drives Kids watch shots instead of hitting first and finishing possessions Transition defense is casual (jogging, blaming, complaining) Coaches focus on the scoreboard instead of habits Pick one defensive rule for the entire week. Not five. One. Coach it every day until it becomes automatic. One Rule Options to Rotate No Middle: contain and force baseline/side Talk First: ball, help, screen calls—silence is losing Hit First: every shot is contact before pursuit Early Help, Early Recover: help before paint, sprint out on kick Sprint Back and Match: no jogging, point and match up Instead of stopping practice every possession, you score the habit: Follow the rule = +1 Break the rule = -1 Examples: Early screen talk = +1 / silence on screen = -1 Great box out = +1 / watching shot = -1 This turns defense into competition and makes habits visible. Defense isn’t just “effort.” It’s decisions. Simple teaching cue:Ball. Help. Recover. On-ball: contain and force One pass away: gap help, ready to stunt Two passes away: loaded to ball, ready to tag cutters On drive: help early, recove…","meta_description":"https://teachhoops.com/ teachhoops.com Episode Title: Are You Teaching Summer Defense… or Just Letting Kids Play? Summer league is where defensive habits…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1708,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496/episodes/ep-1948-building-a-championship-roadmap-inside-our-teachhoops-com-coaching-call-part-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496/ep-1948-building-a-championship-roadmap-inside-our-teachhoops-com-coaching-call-part-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}