{"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":2839,"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":"2026-09-18T22:26:31.441132+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 2008 Are You Giving Kids A Role, Or Just A Number?","slug":"ep-2008-are-you-giving-kids-a-role-or-just-a-number","published_at":"2026-09-03T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496/ep-2008-are-you-giving-kids-a-role-or-just-a-number","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/basketball-coach-unplugged-a-basketball-coaching-podcast-174496","url":"https://teachhoops.com/","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/p.podderapp.com/3154757013/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG6448896800.mp3","summary":"https://teachhoops.com/⁠ Second week of December, a kid knocks on the office door, sits down, and says he thought he was going to start. Most of us have lived that exact moment. And the hard truth is he usually has every reason to believe it, because nobody ever sat him down and told him anything else. This episode takes the role conversation and runs it through a modern lens. Simplicity wins. If your role talk needs a whiteboard and eleven minutes, the kid is not listening, he is waiting to find out if he is starting. One sentence. What is your job on this team? Coach Collins breaks down why silence functions as a promise, why every player writes himself a bigger role than the one you had in mind, and why defining a kid by a position number is coaching from thirty years ago. The job is not what he is. The job is what he decides when the ball moves. What we cover: Silence as a promise, and how a quiet October turns into a hurt player in December Simplicity wins: saying the role in one sentence, in his language The canyon between calling somebody your eighth man and telling him he takes their best scorer for six minutes Defining roles by decisions instead of positions, so a player knows what to do the moment the ball moves Why minutes are the reward and the decision is the actual job Scaffolding the role so a sophomore gets the version he can hold right now, mastering one decision before you add the next Telling him exactly what earns more, with measurable standards instead of empty advice like work harder Why your best player gets the vaguest coaching in the gym, and why he needs a defined job too Reinforcing it every two weeks in thirty second hallway check ins, because roles drift when kids get hot, get hurt, or start hearing it from the bleachers The surprise: the k…","meta_description":"https://teachhoops.com/⁠ Second week of December, a kid knocks on the office door, sits down, and says he thought he was going to start. Most of us have l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":504,"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-2008-are-you-giving-kids-a-role-or-just-a-number/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-2008-are-you-giving-kids-a-role-or-just-a-number.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}