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The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

The 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast

Steve Collins (Teachhoops.com) 1460 Episodes Sep 18, 2026

This podcast offers quick, five-minute episodes designed for basketball coaches. Each episode shares practical coaching tips, drills, and other helpful information. New episodes are published on weekday mornings at 7:00 AM.

Episodes

Ep 1995 Is Your Practice Setup Costing You Twenty Minutes Every Day?
Ep 1995 Is Your Practice Setup Costing You Twenty Minutes Every Day? Sep 18, 2026 700 https://teachhoops.com/ Today's episode of the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast comes to you from teachhoops.com, the coaching platform built to hand you the plan instead of making you invent one every night. Coach opens with a topic that sounds boring and quietly decides your season: how you set up practice before players ever touch the floor. Baskets, balls, cones, groups, who is where, and
Ep 1994 Do Your Players Actually Know What a Good Shot Is?
Ep 1994 Do Your Players Actually Know What a Good Shot Is? Sep 17, 2026 486 https://teachhoops.com/ This episode is presented by teachhoops.com, where coaches get the systems and drills that turn ideas into habits. Shot selection is one of those things coaches complain about constantly and teach almost never. We yell "bad shot" after it goes up, then move on without ever defining what a good shot actually is. Coach makes the case that shot selection is a teachable skill,
Ep 1993 Practice Time, Practice Length, and Getting More From Both
Ep 1993 Practice Time, Practice Length, and Getting More From Both Sep 16, 2026 506 https://teachhoops.com/ Brought to you by teachhoops.com, a platform built by a coach for coaches who want their limited gym time to count. Practice time is the one resource every coach wishes they had more of, and the one most coaches quietly waste. This episode takes an honest look at how long practice should be at different levels, how to break that time into pieces, and what to cut when the c
Ep 1992 How Do You Teach So It Actually Sticks?
Ep 1992 How Do You Teach So It Actually Sticks? Sep 15, 2026 864 https://teachhoops.com/ This episode of the 5 Minute Basketball Coaching Podcast is supported by teachhoops.com, where the whole idea is teaching coaches how to teach. Most coaching content tells you what to run. This one is about how you deliver it. Two coaches can install the exact same offense and get completely different results, and the difference is almost always the teaching method. Coach
Ep 1991 Why Do So Few Teams Screen Well, and How Do You Fix It?
Ep 1991 Why Do So Few Teams Screen Well, and How Do You Fix It? Sep 14, 2026 545 https://teachhoops.com/ This one is brought to you by teachhoops.com, where coaches find the teaching progressions that make hard skills coachable. Screening is one of the most valuable and least taught skills in basketball. Every team runs ball screens. Very few teams set good ones. Coach calls it an art because good screening is equal parts technique, timing, and willingness, and all three have
Ep 1990. Are You Talking Too Much to Be Heard?
Ep 1990. Are You Talking Too Much to Be Heard? Sep 11, 2026 495 https://teachhoops.com/⁠ If the play breaks down and five heads turn to the bench, that is not a basketball problem. That is a coaching habit. This episode is about moving from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side, and building players who can think when the gym gets loud. What we cover: Handing players real decisions, and why ownership is a muscle that has to be loaded Trading
Ep 1989 What Would Make Your Practice Better Tomorrow?
Ep 1989 What Would Make Your Practice Better Tomorrow? Sep 10, 2026 653 https://teachhoops.com/ Brought to you by teachhoops.com, the platform that hands coaches a better practice instead of a longer to do list. This episode is about improving practice without changing your schedule, your roster, or your facility. Most coaches assume a better practice requires more of something. Coach makes the case that it usually requires better use of what you already have. The f
Ep 1988 Are You Using Your Timeouts or Just Spending Them?
Ep 1988 Are You Using Your Timeouts or Just Spending Them? Sep 9, 2026 659 https://teachhoops.com/ This episode is presented by teachhoops.com, where coaches sharpen the game management skills that decide close games. Timeouts are one of the few in game resources a coach fully controls, and they get burned constantly on frustration rather than strategy. Coach breaks down when a timeout is genuinely the right call, when it is a waste, and how to make the sixty seconds co
Ep 1987 Is Your Practice Too Complicated to Work?
Ep 1987 Is Your Practice Too Complicated to Work? Sep 8, 2026 460 https://teachhoops.com/ Supported by teachhoops.com, a resource built on the idea that clarity beats complexity. This short episode is a reminder most coaches need at least once a season. Complexity feels like coaching. Multiple offenses, several defenses, dozens of drills, and a new wrinkle every week all look like hard work. What they usually produce is a team that does many things poorly and n
Ep 1986 What Are You Measuring If It Is Not the Scoreboard?
Ep 1986 What Are You Measuring If It Is Not the Scoreboard? Sep 7, 2026 497 https://teachhoops.com/⁠ Summer is over, the banners are hung, and this episode asks an uncomfortable question: did you win because you taught something, or because you found something? One of those lasts. One of those disappears the moment everybody else grows. What we cover: The bamboo mindset and why root systems never show up on a December scoreboard Choosing success metrics before th
Ep 1985 What Does Winning Actually Look Like for Your Team This Season?
Ep 1985 What Does Winning Actually Look Like for Your Team This Season? Sep 4, 2026 405 What Does Winning Actually Look Like for Your Team This Season? Why defining success before the first tip changes how your whole season feels If you don't define winning, the scoreboard will define it for you, and the scoreboard is a brutal boss. In this episode Coach Collins pushes coaches to decide what a successful season means before the first practice, so the team has something to compete f
Ep 1984 Can Every Player on Your Team Repeat Your Vision Back to You?
Ep 1984 Can Every Player on Your Team Repeat Your Vision Back to You? Sep 3, 2026 388 https://teachhoops.com/ Can Every Player on Your Team Repeat Your Vision Back to You? How to make your message simple enough that it actually sticks A vision your players can't repeat is just a speech you gave in October. This episode is about boiling your message down and then saying it far more often than feels comfortable, until it becomes the language of your program. What we cover Shr

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