ROUND TABLE 89 – IF ONE OF YOUR FORMER PLAYERS BECAME A COACH, WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU HOPE THEY’D STEAL FROM YOU…AND SOMETHING YOU HOPE THEY WOULDN’T? – EPISODE 1252
Welcome to the 89th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month.
May’s Round Table question is: If one of your former players became a coach, what’s something you hope they’d steal from you…and something you hope they wouldn’t?
Our Coaching Lineup this month:
- Jake Boyd – Luther College
- Jerry Buckley – Bishop Kenny (FL) High School
- Joe Harris – Lake Chelan (WA) High School
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High
- Raul Placeres – Tennessee Tech University
- Chris Richardson – Wheeling University
- Don Showalter – USA Basketball
- John Shulman – University of Central Arkansas
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TRANSCRIPT FOR ROUND TABLE 89 – IF ONE OF YOUR FORMER PLAYERS BECAME A COACH, WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU HOPE THEY’D STEAL FROM YOU…AND SOMETHING YOU HOPE THEY WOULDN’T? – EPISODE 1252
[00:00:00] Narrator: The Hoop Heads Podcast is brought to you by Head Start Basketball.
[00:00:20] Mike Klinzing: Hello, and welcome to the 89th edition of the Coaches Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads podcast. Each episode of the Coaches Corner Round Table will feature our all-star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coaches Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month.
May’s Round Table question is, if one of your former players became a coach, what’s something you hope they’d steal from you and something you hope they wouldn’t?
Our Coaching Lineup this month:
- Jake Boyd – Luther College
- Jerry Buckley – Bishop Kenny (FL) High School
- Joe Harris – Lake Chelan (WA) High School
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High
- Raul Placeres – Tennessee Tech University
- Chris Richardson – Wheeling University
- Don Showalter – USA Basketball
- John Shulman – University of Central Arkansas
Please enjoy this Round Table episode of the Hoop Heads podcast, and once you’re finished listening, please give the show a five-star rating and review after you subscribe on your favorite podcast app.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram at hoopheadspod for the latest updates on episodes, guests, and events from the Hoop Heads pod.
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Let’s hear from our panel about if one of their former players became a coach, what’s something they hope the player would steal from them and something they hope the player wouldn’t. Jake Boyd from Luther College.
[00:03:39] Jake Boyd: This is Jake Boyd, assistant coach at Luther College, answering this month’s roundtable question.
If one of your former players became a coach, what’s something you’d hope they’d steal from you and something you’d hope they wouldn’t? I would hope they would steal my desire to improve at leading, at communicating, at anything really that helps build real connection, which I think is essential to being able to coach someone wanting to reach their full potential.
At the same time, I probably wouldn’t want them to steal the way I coach, unless, of course, it matches their personality. I think a lot of times we as coaches end up doing what the coaches we played for or did. And though it’s certainly not malicious, it may not be what’s best suited for your players or you as a coach.
Always appreciate the opportunity to contribute. Hope everyone has a great start to the summer.
[00:04:31] Mike Klinzing: Jerry Buckley, Bishop Kenny High School, Jacksonville, Florida.
[00:04:38] Jerry Buckley: This is Jerry Buckley answering this month’s question. If a former player of mine became a coach, I would say if they were to steal something from me, maybe it’s patience, something I developed hopefully over my career early on.
A little more impatient with players and kind of understanding where they are, and every- everyone runs a different race. Like I said, some frustrations early on, understanding where… how guys develop, but certainly players develop at all different times. And again, they’re running their own race.
Whether what a ninth grader looks like and what a player two years later can look like can be totally different things and watching them evolve. So I think it’s important to have patience. You don’t want to be too patient with players. You always want to be pushing them, but it’s also important to understand guys develop differently, and you’re all trying to get them in the same…
go– running in the same direction. As far as something not to steal I would say certainly they can take any of the X and O stuff or culture stuff that they like, but I think ultimately they have to be themselves. So trying to be like me or somebody they see on TV or somebody they read about in a book, you have to be authentic.
You have to be yourself. You can certainly, like I said, take drills and all these different things, but I think it’s important to be yourself and I think players feed off of that and see authenticity. And everyone’s going to be different. Every- every single coach is going to be different in how they handle things and I think that’s a really important aspect as well.
[00:06:08] Mike Klinzing: Joe Harris, Lake Chelan High School, Lake Chelan, Washington.
[00:06:14] Joe Harris: Hello, Hoop Heads. This is Joe Harris from Lake Chelan with this month’s roundtable question. If one of your former players became a coach, what’s something you hope they’d steal from you and something you hope that they wouldn’t? One of the most rewarding parts of the job is seeing the, your coaching tree grow.
And if a player of mine stepped into the role as coach, here’s what I’d want them to take and what I’d hope they’d leave behind. I hope they’d steal the why behind the work, really the nuts and bolts of what we do when no one is watching. I’d want them to value the relationships that we built more than any win or stat on your resume.
I hope that they make a habit of really knowing what’s going on in a player’s life outside the lines. I- what’s going on with their schoolwork, their exams, their families and really what is bothering them or their fears. If they can make a player feel like a human being first and an athlete second, I really feel like they’ll earn a level of loyalty that a perfect X and O could never provide.
At the same time, I really hope they avoid the stubbornness that many coaches often have. Early in my career, I thought I needed an immediate answer for everything to maintain that coaching authority. I learned it’s far better to be quick to say, “I don’t know. Let’s figure this out together,” or to admit when a game plan isn’t working.
That’s really truly when real growth happens. I hope this is something that you find valuable and can help your team with finding some success throughout the season. Thanks again for having me on.
[00:07:56] Mike Klinzing: Bob Krizancic, Mentor High School, Mentor, Ohio.
[00:08:04] Bob Krizancic: Coach K, Mentor High School. If one of my players became a head coach I truly wish they would adopt The style, the run and gun, the press and the fast break because I’m totally sold that it can win and win big. It’s proven over the years and I think it’s fun for players and it puts them in a great position to play at the next level.
Something that I would hope they wouldn’t take with them or be like me is obsessing over losses. You learn from them, you get over them quick and that’s it. It’s tough for me to lose a game and to get over it quickly. Best of luck.
[00:08:47] Mike Klinzing: Raul Placeres, Tennessee Tech University.
[00:08:53] Raul Placeres: If one of my former players became a coach I’d want them to remember the importance of trust, accountability and creating a culture where everyone feels valued. I’d also hope they’d steal the emphasis of preparation, having attention to detail, having great defensive effort and teaching the game instead of just running drills. Something I’d hope they wouldn’t steal, probably the tendency to overthink or try to control every detail.
I did that a lot as a young coach when I first started 20 years ago. I think players respond better when the coaches, the staff adapt, listen and allow the athletes, the players within the program to grow and lead. Coach Raul Placeres, Tennessee Tech Basketball.
[00:09:42] Mike Klinzing: Chris Richardson from Wheeling University.
[00:09:47] Chris Richardson: This is Chris Richardson, head men’s basketball coach at Wheeling University with this month’s roundtable question. Something I hope players take from me if they get into coaching is to be a lifelong learner. Don’t ever be satisfied with where you’re at from a knowledge standpoint from a skill acquisition standpoint, from a teaching standpoint.
Continue to learn a- and have a healthy thirst for continuing to get better at all things. From your understanding of each and every player and how to reach them and how to teach them to your impact every day on the program. I think you can always be learning about how to do those things better, more efficiently more productively and so on and so forth.
Something I hope they don’t take from me is just how emotional I can be after losing. You can tell right away whether we’ve won or lost for the next 24 hours after the game. Try to get better at that through the years. A mentor of mine told me, “Hey, don’t get too high with the wins and don’t get too low with the losses,” and try to get a little better with that through the years.
But don’t let that outcome determine your mood and everything that you do. It’s easier said than done, as those of us that have coached a long time know. But hopefully that’s something that, players of mine going into coaching don’t take from me.
[00:11:00] Mike Klinzing: Don Showalter, USA Basketball.
[00:11:05] Don Showalter: Hi, Don Showalter here from USA Basketball. What is something that you’d hope your former players would take from you, and something that you would hope they wouldn’t take from you as a coach? First of all, I think that I would hope that my players would take from me is the valuable relationships that we try and build with players and coaches.
And just the overall aspect of being a family person and showing our players that what a good marriage looks like in the home, I think is really important for players to see. because ma- many of them that I’ve coached don’t have that two-family two-family home. So I hope that’s something they would look for.
Organization is also something I hope that players take away from having played for me, is being well organized with what they want to do on a daily basis, and organized in their thoughts and being s- being a, having a self-service attitude. Something I hope that they don’t take away from me is maybe my sometimes intense competitive nature might go, might be overboard a little bit.
So I hope they have a competitive nature, but maybe not to the point that it ends up hurting them. Secondly, I think sometimes I think we as coaches overall, we tend to want things too quickly. I h- I hope that they don’t take away lack of patience that maybe sometimes we see. Thank you.
[00:12:42] Mike Klinzing: John Shulman from the University of Central Arkansas.
[00:12:48] John Shulman: This is John Shulman, head coach at the University of Central Arkansas. And question of the month is if one of our former players got a head coaching job, what is one thing that hopefully he’d get from us, and one thing that you wouldn’t want him to get?
Hopefully, and I’ve got a bunch of former players coaching all around the country, and hopefully they would take from me I’m hoping they would take the passion for people. But just the simplicity of creating habits in practice, not forgetting the basics working on the basics daily. I know they didn’t like that as players, but I think it really helps.
Whether we jumping to the ball every single day, or working on box outs every single day, or working on playing off two feet every single day. Just the simplicity of that And, my guys make fun of me and tell me they still remember the good old days of shell drill and getting through screens and boxing out.
And so hopefully if they still talk about it, hopefully that’s what they would take with them is just the ability to not get bored with the basics daily. What I wouldn’t want them to take is just the younger version of me being so intense and almost to the point of sometimes being angry. I wouldn’t want anybody to take that on.
I would not want them to take on I was one of the best in the country at one time at turning one loss into three losses. And so I wouldn’t want that. I took losses really hard. I still do. And I wouldn’t want any of those guys to do that. And hopefully I’ve gotten better at that. But that’s also how you’re wired.
And I’m wired a crazy way. And I would not want them to take that part in making yourself miserable after a loss. Not sleeping and not eating and trying to figure out why on earth you got beat. And sometimes you just get beat. And so hopefully they take the good parts of me and leave the bad parts behind.
And I hope this helps and hope everybody has a great summer. Thanks.
[00:15:15] Mike Klinzing: Thanks for checking out this month’s Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. We’ll be back next month with another question for our all-star lineup of guests.
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